A question for the folks
Jul. 8th, 2009 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
What is your favorite text/internet abbreviation (or abbreviations)?
What is your least favorite?
And I'm not asking for your opinion on such things in general ... I'm looking for specific text-speech and what they mean
What is your least favorite?
And I'm not asking for your opinion on such things in general ... I'm looking for specific text-speech and what they mean
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Date: 2009-07-08 06:38 pm (UTC)Favorite(s):
IHNJ, IJLS: I have no joke, I just like saying...
IMNSHO: In my not so humble opinion...
Least Favorite:
ISTR: I seem to recall... (Really, you seem to have a subjective experience? You are that alienated from yourself that you can't tell if you're having a subjective experience for sure?)
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Date: 2009-07-08 06:42 pm (UTC)dislike: rofl, lol.
Text abbrs
Date: 2009-07-08 07:06 pm (UTC)I'm not fond of Lawlz, especially when said out loud.
Re: Text abbrs
Date: 2009-07-08 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-08 07:08 pm (UTC)The only one I really hate is actually an emoticon. :) just seems so damned sarcastic to me. And maybe PMSL (pissing myself laughing) because you know they really aren't... No one would advertise that!
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Date: 2009-07-08 07:08 pm (UTC)I can't actually think of any I actively like.
Worst:
tl;dr (too long; didn't read)
IAWTC (I agree with this comment)
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Date: 2009-07-08 07:09 pm (UTC)Dislike: Any anime smilies like ^_^ or XD
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Date: 2009-07-08 07:15 pm (UTC)I hate ROFL.
I like WTF? But not as just any abbreviation. I like it as graffiti or in the body of an email. As a stand alone comment it is pretty lame.
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Date: 2009-07-08 07:25 pm (UTC)Iirc (if I recall correctly)
imrho (in my rarely humble opinion; my variant on an abbreviation that precedes the net, iirc)
rtfm (read the manual)
(-)(o) (My wink, from Citadel days)
Turn offs:
Any Ascii text I have to turn my head sideways to read.
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Date: 2009-07-08 08:08 pm (UTC)Least favorite... just plain lazy shorthand... UR for your, etc. Basically, AOL-speak. *shudder*
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Date: 2009-07-09 02:56 pm (UTC)when used in very particular circumstances (responding to text or image someone has posted in hopes that someone can explain whatever unfathomable oddity it is representing), I am amused by "LOL wut?"
Generally, anything that makes a short word even shorter or otherwise represents pure laziness (U for you, etc.) causes me to think less of the person sending the text. That said, I have occasionally sent an extremely brief or hasty response or time-critical question via text, in which I used this type of shortcut. If I'm doing that, it's probably because I'm doing something else that requires enough of my attention (e.g. driving) that I really shouldn't be texting at all, so I'm looking to minimize my effort for safety reasons.