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« on: August 21, 2003, 12:56:15 pm »
Read this I found on MSN, it's rather interesting...
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/Columns/?Article=imshorthandmain

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« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2003, 01:01:54 pm »
I agree... writing those shortcuts outside of IMs or message boards... makes you look rather stupid...

just like certain speech being used I think sounds REALLY stupid because it was never meant to be used in speech...
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« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2003, 01:06:38 pm »
It's a good article:

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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2003, 01:14:41 pm »
Yes, the sad thing is though, I did get into the habit of "hehe" "lol" and things like that, and I'm trying now to mostly just say..."haha"

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« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2003, 01:29:35 pm »
hah her analogy was "dum"

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« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2003, 02:14:22 pm »
About MSN, just read this article: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11124 :wink:

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« Reply #6 on: August 21, 2003, 02:20:28 pm »
It is a good article. I've gotten into some of it, especially the LOL'ing but more or less I don't use a lot of abbreviations generally because I think they look stupid.

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« Reply #7 on: August 21, 2003, 02:25:00 pm »
ROFL

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« Reply #8 on: August 22, 2003, 10:07:55 am »
I ocassionally find myself typeing "imma" or "gonna" or "'cause" in e-mails to clients.  Thankfully I have spell checker on my e-mail ;)

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« Reply #9 on: August 22, 2003, 10:19:47 am »
I use a lot of the abbreviations unfortunately.  It's quite sad that I've picked up on a bunch of them.  One time, in 10th grade, I wrote a research paper and... I used U in it  :o  on accident haha! Boy was that a mistake.
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« Reply #10 on: August 22, 2003, 10:38:13 am »
Quote from: "Grakthis"
I ocassionally find myself typeing "imma" or "gonna" or "'cause" in e-mails to clients.  Thankfully I have spell checker on my e-mail ;)

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hmmm, I say gonna alot, but mostly that's because of where I am from...It got a little crazy last year when I had "gonna" in my newspaper stories, and thank god I caught them before printing...

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