people who abbreviate random words that are common and easy to spell out

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"ppl"

come on

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

"w/"
"obv"

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

i am guilty of both of these

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

VW (vee double yew) = 4 syllables for Volkswagen = 3 syllables (wtf)

― A Breve, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

oh spl! wht abt say?

― A Breve, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

VW (vee double yew) = 4 syllables for Volkswagen = 3 syllables (wtf)

Not if you pronounce it vee-dub.

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

Or just say "Volkswagon"....

― LSD ARISTOCAT (ex machina), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

"people's car" only has 3 syllables

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

suzy does this a lot, but it's appropriate because she's a journalist.

― youn, Saturday, 15 January 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

sry guys this mostly goes bk to my skl dz

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

the only person who i ever took issue w/ it was this gay kid in 8th grade who called me "lazy", kinda makes me wonder about jon

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

"n20"

― chaki in charge (chaki), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

yr.

nigga please.

― Michael Stuchbery (Mikey Bidness), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

using periods though is completely whack

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

i actually hate vowels

― chaki in charge (chaki), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:11 (twenty years ago)

i ht ths

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

i hate sara vowell from npr

― chaki in charge (chaki), Saturday, 15 January 2005 02:14 (twenty years ago)

I'll use the ILXisms like "obv" and "yr" as typing shorthand from time to time but I can't stand the extreme SMS speak young kids seem to use a lot that dont look like anything but poor education - a sentence like "lol ur a fagget hay y rnt you n jail?". AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH *kills them with large hardcover Oxford*.

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 15 January 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

VW (vee double yew) = 4 syllables for Volkswagen = 3 syllables (wtf)

Makes sense if you're German and VW = "fau vey"

― winky, Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:22 (twenty years ago)

I feel kind of edgy and rebellious when I abbreviate short words (v, yr) because I don't have to, and I bet it is annoying to some people. This was a really lame confession.

― Maria (Maria), Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

I kinda like shortenings where they are, usable but not really usual, so you can drop them in fr stylistic effect?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

Or: what Maria said.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 15 January 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and this one makes me want to kill: nuclear pronounced as "noo-kyuh-lurr". My boss even does this.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and I just posted this on the wrong thread altogether.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Saturday, 15 January 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

Allan Bryant to thrd

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Trayce upthread OTM x 1,000,000,000. i.e. I weep for the future of writing in the post-industrial world.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

I know this guy who, when text messaging, adds extra letters to words that are short enough to not need abbreviating, just so they'll be spelt wrong and fit the text-gibberish tone. Eg 'goin'---->'gowin'.

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Saturday, 15 January 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I do that too, i think it's grebt!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 15 January 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

i hate sara vowell from npr

I still need to get that one Sarah Vowell book on CD cause TMBG did music for it.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

wow.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

does jaleel white show up on that CD too?

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

Actually there are a decent number of folks doing voices for characters on it from what I understand, but only TMBG doing the music. I still haven't heard it nor have I read the actual book.

More along the lines of the topic of this thread:
This entry on my blog is the first and only time I've ever had to turn off comments. The comments that were placed before I turned them off on that thread are a fairly amusing read.

Apologies in advance for the use of an iframe on the page. It was a great idea at the time, and now the whole site's in need of a redesign.

― martin m. (mushrush), Saturday, 15 January 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

People who use "they're" rather than "they are." ITS JUST ONE MORE LETTER, PEOPLE!!!

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I weep for the future of writing in the post-industrial world.

Genuine literacy has only ever been the province of the few, the proud, the inveterately bookish. The sort of ppl who use these abbreviations would never have aspired to writing, beyond the most quotidian sorts of ephemera - for example, instant text messaging. The future of writing was never in their hands - only the standard number of stubby digits, thumbs included.

So long as they can communicate their hazy urges and inexact thoughts they shall be contented and so should we all be. Unless we have to work with them. God forbid.

― Aimless (Aimless), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

dude

― John (jdahlem), Saturday, 15 January 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

Oh, come on. If people want to shorten words why shouldn't they? As long as its not a formal document or anything, and if we can all understand, then surely it makes no difference? I mean, how annoyed would you be if a Lynne Truss-a-like came and picked up on your slightest grammatical error that made no practical difference?

One could regard the rejection of such writing as a form of elitism.

― Judy, Saturday, 15 January 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure he was taking the piss, but in any case he's CLEARLY too elitist to drop an emoticon once in awhile

― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

ICH FAHRE DIE WAGEN DES VOLKEN GERN!

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:54 (twenty years ago)

Also, I enjoy writing both in a bookish sort of douchey academic way as well as in a shorthand douchey internet loser kind of way.

I look at them like dialects. It's useful to be able to speak and understand multiple dialects of any language.

Denkst du, dass alle Deutschen Hochdeutsch sprechen? Nee!

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

The stylee is mightier than the emoticon.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

I say "obv" out loud.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

let's not forget 'awes'

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

oh and I also sometimes say "teh" aloud for lols

and "lols" too.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

haw obv rox iz a krazi spllr liek me. roxor haw meni ppl are cumin to yr partay tonite

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 16 January 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I hate hate hate the "yr" abbreviation so much

― Gator Magoon (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:35 (twenty years ago)

"I LIKE IT!"

- The Rocketeer

― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

If shortening words txt style is a sign of lesser intelligence (which it isn't; it's more efficient, which is more intelligent; but leave that to the side) then adding superfluous letters to words surely indicates superior skillZ0r

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 16 January 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

17 74k3z 50 mUcH m0r3 3Ff0r7 70 7yP3 7h15 w4y!

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

stop.

― John (jdahlem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 03:24 (twenty years ago)

w3rd!

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 16 January 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

"they're" rather than "they are." ITS JUST ONE MORE LETTER, PEOPLE!!!
but it's (at least potentially) one less syllable the former way...so maybe people (me for instance) use it with how the thing sounds (even though no one is intended to read it aloud - just for the kind of inner "reading voice") or prefer the way it looks. Abbrevs aren't always about laziness. Obv!
Tho for spped I find various things useful such as "tho" "abt" and "y're"

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Sunday, 16 January 2005 10:36 (twenty years ago)

"with how the thing sounds in mind" was my intended meaning there

― cuspidorian (cuspidorian), Sunday, 16 January 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

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