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21-08-07, 04:25 PM
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All this shorthand writting being used!
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!!
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21-08-07, 04:29 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
STFU and CTFO, HTH
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21-08-07, 04:31 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
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......... 
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21-08-07, 04:35 PM
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21-08-07, 04:39 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
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21-08-07, 05:52 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
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!!! |
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21-08-07, 06:14 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
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 |
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21-08-07, 06:37 PM
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 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 |
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21-08-07, 07:39 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
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 |
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21-08-07, 08:21 PM
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Re: All this shorthand writting being used!
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