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Originally Posted by SoulKiss

No, because its a TLA (Three Letter Acronym)

Acronyms are ok - I use about a million of them every day (working in IT, especially with TCP/IP and being the addressing maintainer for your AS with RIPE will do that to you

SoulKiss, it gets worse when you work in the SCM (Supply Chain Management) industry. The apps our company write are things like WMS, TMS, YMS, SAM and all saved in a folder named SCM. We have an EDI error well, naturally all of this is done via TCP/IP, mainly TCP infact, but some of the EDI transactions happen in UDP, the TCP EDI is done via XML in the later apps. Some of our clients use RTIMs & some VTIMs. All our apps (except RTIMs) output in HTML from a WO Worker.

Backups are done either onto DVD or DAT usually, and of course, we have to follow ISO standards.

And dont even get me started about the woes of trying to use a DB setup by (or using the client of) Oracle 10g!

All of the above is only a tiny snapshot of what springs to mind, and yes, my desk is littered with postit nots that define acronyms!
This is just the

I'm a long hander (behave, especially you! Yes you know whom I am talking about), but that has mainly been to try and get a grip on my dyslexia.
I have an avvid hatred of text speak and usually end up shouting at my phone
DUCK OFF AND FIE!!!!!!!!!



It's true

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Caddy2000

I'm a long hander (behave, especially you! Yes you know whom I am talking about), but that has mainly been to try and get a grip on my dyslexia.
I have an avvid hatred of text speak and usually end up shouting at my phone
DUCK OFF AND FIE!!!!!!!!!



It's true

Not to poke fun at anyone, but apart from the old "Why is Dyslexia so hard to spell" gag that usually goes around with a few other wisecracks, anyone else notice that a work that is hard to spell, used by people with spelling difficulties has a great anagram???

DYSLEXIA

DAILYSEX

David

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by Jabba

Me too. I even make sure that the punctuation is alright, too. Texts take forever to type, which is why I hardly ever do these days.


Do you think that this is something that just affects us "chaps of a certain age"?

Ahem!!!

The last time I looked I wasn't a chap

I also loathe text speak and lazy spelling. Maybe it IS a generation thing.............we all belong to a generation who were actually taught correct spelling, grammer and punctuation. Apparently, when marking exams these days, marks are NOT deducted for bad spelling Not sure how true that is, but it wouldn't surprise me, the way exams have been dumbed down.

It's not hard to spell at all really; it's very phonetic
(it spell like it sounds - Justmac650)

But I have never heard that one before......

While we are at it...

too means "as well" / "also".

"I was there too."

Not the same as to. "I went there to burn his house down."

See? Different.


Not sure why that winds me up. But it does.

I'm not dim by any stretch of the imagination, but I am guilty of using text speak *hides*... as I fail to grasp how predictive text works ... and "tomorrow" is such a pain to txt, when you can say "2mrw"

A little tip for all you predictive texters. PLEASE re-read your texts before you send them. It is quite funny/annoying when you get a text from a buddy, saying that they're "in the car"!! when in fact they mean to say "in the bar"!! Arghh



PhilipMac I'm with you on the "too" and "to" thing, I find the same with "their", "they're" and "there"

Amen

[Lissa]

Originally Posted by philipMac

While we are at it...

too means "as well" / "also".

"I was there too."

Not the same as to. "I went there to burn his house down."

See? Different.


Not sure why that winds me up. But it does.

Yes, that also winds me up, but the one thing that really makes me want to scream is something I pull my daughter up on all the time.

When relating a conversation she has had with other people, instead of saying 'he said, she said' she says 'he goes, she goes'. It's just WRONG. They didn't GO anywhere, but they did SAY something.

i use u and c sometimes, but that acceptable in my books, anything else isnt.

i.e

i can see u


and


i can c you

These wind me up:

;o) >< etc.

I don't mind the emoticons because they mean something but this -------> o(>.<)o being ascii Cartman can fook off! I mean what does it mean - sticking a cartman at the end of a sentence??

Oh, and could some please explain what the chicken with the net emoticon means?

Thanks
Luke