View Full Version : All this shorthand writting being used!
riktherider
21-08-07, 04:25 PM
i keep on seeing shorthand being used, but ive only managed to deciver certain ones. such as (imho) i presume means In My Humble Opinion?? am i right? could some of you please enligten me into the rest of then as it is starting to bug me when i dont understand what the hell a lot of you peops are saying!!
IIRC = If I Recall Correctly
FFS = For F*ck's Sake
POV = Point Of View
TBC = To Be Confirmed
FWIW = For What It's Worth
SWMBO = She Who Must Be Obeyed
There are many more......... :D
Look here.
HTH.
http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=76287&highlight=imho
riktherider
21-08-07, 05:52 PM
ah much better, still dont know why people cant just type it! if you say it s faster then learn to type faster!!! much easier. i prefer to type whole words anyway. it even bugs me in text!! everyones messages are really short and mine are long because i have to type every word!
listen to me i sound like a grumpy old fool!......I'm only 21!!!
Meh, it is faster, if you can type Laughs out loud faster than I can type LOL, In my humble Opinion faster than IMHO, and Rolling on the Floor Laughing my Ass off than ROFLMAO then good luck to you.
Plus, in the day's of the interweb, before smilies and user friendly board with spell checkers etc. everyone knew that you weren't actually laughin out loud, but they got the general idea ;)
HTH
Pedro68
21-08-07, 06:37 PM
I keep on seeing shorthand being used, but I've only managed to decipher certain ones, such as IMHO which I presume means In My Humble Opinion?? am I right? Could some of you please enlighten me about the rest of them as it is starting to bug me when i don't understand what the hell a lot of you people are saying!!
Perhaps you'd care to work on your spelling, grammar and typing accuracy before slating other people for using shorthand :p ;)
Maybe we choose to use shorthand because we can't be bothered to type the whole word. I use shorthand and I'd like to consider myself a relatively quick typist (comes with using/working with computers for the past 20 years), but the reason I use shorthand is because it saves me time.
To be honest, I reckon most of this shorthand was born out of the days when people were connecting to the internet using a piece of string (a 900 baud modem) and hence every single byte you could save was well worth it, because it didn't just save you time, it saved what little bandwidth you had, and therefore it also saved you money (kerrr-ching!). So people posting on the predecessor to the internet (Electronic Bulletin Boards) would use their own shorthand ... IMHO ;-)
English & History lesson over for today!
Class dismissed!! :P
tigersaw
21-08-07, 07:39 PM
Some of it is very similar to the shorthand we used on shortwave radio, a lot of which looks odd but was chosen for its ease and simplicity in morse code.
HTH was the same, OM for old man, (friend, mate etc), HI for laughter, (Hilarity?, but it was just a few dots in morse).
73's
CTFO?
Chill The F*** Out :rolleyes:
ATB
Razor
Perhaps you'd care to work on your spelling, grammar and typing accuracy before slating other people for using shorthand :p ;)
Maybe we choose to use shorthand because we can't be bothered to type the whole word. I use shorthand and I'd like to consider myself a relatively quick typist (comes with using/working with computers for the past 20 years), but the reason I use shorthand is because it saves me time.
To be honest, I reckon most of this shorthand was borne out of the days when people were connecting to the internet using a piece of string (a 900 baud modem) and hence every single byte you could save was well worth it, because it didn't just save you time, it saved what little bandwidth you had, and therefore it also saved you money (kerrr-ching!). So people posting on the predecessor to the internet (Electronic Bulletin Boards) would use their own shorthand ... IMHO ;-)
English & History lesson over for today!
Class dismissed!! :P
I just can't help myself. Sorry.
Incorrect use of born instead of borne.
Starting a sentence with a conjunction.
Use of multiple exclamation marks.
I apologise for my pedantry once again.
;)
I've said it before, I'll say it again but seriously, what the f**k does WTF stand for?????
I'll get me lid....
I've said it before, I'll say it again but seriously, what the f**k does WTF stand for?????
I'll get me lid....
OMG you mean you don't know?
I just can't help myself. Sorry.
Starting a sentence with a conjunction.
Use of multiple exclamation marks.
And what's wrong with that? English evolves with time and usage, stop being so Victorian Mr WRC. It's perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with 'with', 'because' 'and' 'or' 'until' etc!!!!! And multiple !!!!s are OK for emphasis.
therealvw
22-08-07, 04:20 AM
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
sado ;)
the_runt69
22-08-07, 06:48 AM
The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog.
There's no S in that quote
Pedro68
22-08-07, 07:49 AM
I just can't help myself. Sorry.
Incorrect use of born instead of borne.
Starting a sentence with a conjunction.
Use of multiple exclamation marks.
I apologise for my pedantry once again.
;)
Well I was opening myself up for that really wasn't I :D
According to dictionary.com "born" and "borne" mean the same :rolleyes:
I have no idea WTF a conjunction is (ignorance is bliss) ;)
Just for the shorthand freaks ...
http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
My favourite of all-time has to be ...
BOBFOC - Body Off Baywatch, Face Off Crimewatch :smt046
And what's wrong with that? English evolves with time and usage, stop being so Victorian Mr WRC. It's perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with 'with', 'because' 'and' 'or' 'until' etc!!!!! And multiple !!!!s are OK for emphasis.
I know, I know. I'm not saying for one minute that I wouldn't do it... Just making the point that people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, that's all. :rolleyes:
I just find it funny that on any forum there's pretty much one thread a week where the whole grammar/spelling thing rears its head, and to be honest I just can't understand why. This is the internet for Christ's sake. I like things to be correct and understandable but I couldn't for the life of me care less if it's not 100% accurate. 99.999% is perfectly adequate.
Pedro68
22-08-07, 12:39 PM
Same here WRC ... I too like things to be correct and understandable, but at the end of the day, as long as I can make out what someone is trying to say, I don't really care ;-)
This is interesting tho' ...
http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000840.php
There's no S in that quote
The jump is supposed to be in 3rd person present tense, where an 's' occurs. ;)
:smt073
And what's wrong with that? English evolves with time and usage; stop being so Victorian Mr WRC. It's perfectly acceptable to start a sentence with 'with', 'because' 'and' 'or' 'until' etc!!!!! And multiple !!!!s are OK for emphasis.
I suspect a conjunction would fit nicely as a precursor to the exhortation to "stop being so Victorian"; a semicolon just as well. But please, not a plain comma.
I suspect a conjunction would fit nicely as a precursor to the exhortation to "stop being so Victorian"; a semicolon just as well. But please, not a plain comma.
:D Pure quality.
therealvw
23-08-07, 12:21 AM
There's no S in that quote
Well noted to those of you anal enough to bother to reply!:D
Is this going to run and run. Or is it going to flounder.
Well noted to those of you anal enough to bother to reply!:D
Is this going to run and run? Or is it going to flounder?
The construct of the final two sentences - brief though they were - suggests that you have omitted the necessary question marks. Tch, Tch.
(We will not discuss that the general salutation "Well noted" might perhaps more properly have been encased with speech marks. What with you being a colonial, and all that.)
Captain Nemo
23-08-07, 08:17 AM
pmsl.
you have to forgive Ol Boc folks, he remembers when punctuation was a really big issue.........
After all he remembers first hand how difficult it can be to have to re - chisel a new tablet simply because some ill educated fool has used a semi-colon instead of a comma............
:D;););)
Ceri JC
23-08-07, 01:03 PM
Stfw. ;)
In all seriousness though, I like it if I can actually understand what someone is saying without much effort. If I have to re-read it more than once to get the meaning, I don't usually bother trying to comprehend it.
therealvw
23-08-07, 09:32 PM
The construct of the final two sentences - brief though they were - suggests that you have omitted the necessary question marks. Tch, Tch.
(We will not discuss that the general salutation "Well noted" might perhaps more properly have been encased with speech marks. What with you being a colonial, and all that.)
Colonial? Born and raised in Blighty.
Laughs out Loud.
But, For Your Information, I was hoping someone would see the missing question marks and quotation marks and add them.
Well done.
Ol Boc.
By The Way, what does Ol Boc refer to?
Captain Nemo
24-08-07, 08:53 AM
Ol Boc refers to a previous user name before he was banned for buying a cruiser...........
in a previous life , (before he joined witness protection) he was rumoured to have been called El Bocadilldo, or El Boc for short, i think the Ol refers to the fact that he is old, he doesnt say but using the rings around the trunk methos he is 367yr old,
His Computer was hacked by Ikea and he lost his user name and had to re register,
rumour has it that hes very close to Camilla Jessop, and in a bid to cool down their relationship he now carries out missionary work in Hong Kong.
He Owns a fleet of Whaling ships and is currently campaigning to reintroduce whaling in a bid to offset the rising tides caused by Global Warming.
He runs a franchise in japan for those vending machines with the schoolies pants in.
His family own the town of skipton and distribute maundy money to the areas poor on boxing day and michaelmas eve.
that is all
therealvw
25-08-07, 07:04 AM
HEHE
Briliant Nemo!
I'm sure if Ol Boc can be bothered he will have a snappy retort to make.
Hope you have a brilliant weekend guys!
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