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The Nargle Puff

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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:50 pm

Which "txt talk" atrocity have you seen the most? Name the top five monsters you've had to struggle through interpreting.

1. "pleez" instead of "please"

2. "no" or "kno" instead of "know"

3. "u" instead of "you"

4. "c" instead of "see"

5. "ppl" instead of "people"

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:53 pm

I've heard several "W-T-F/ W-T-H"'s in my class. Ugh, they actually spelled them out loud whenever a substitute had his/ her back turned. I had several bad reports of that gonk

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Unknowncreepychick

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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:12 pm

Let's see now...
* OMG instead of Oh my God.
* thnx instead of Thanks,
* GTFO instead of Get the f*ck out
* lol instead of Laugh out loud (Personal pet-peeve)
* U instead of You.

In addition to any and all 1337 5p3@|< (leet speak)

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 6:19 pm

AFK away from keyboard
IRL in real life
IMHO In my humble opinion
IIRC If I recall correctly
BTW By the way

I get a lot of these abbreviations in IRC (or Internet Relay Chat.)

Knit Happens

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MyOwnBestCritic

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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:21 pm

*dies* I hate them... hate them...

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:29 pm

I only really use LOL if I'm lazy and can't think of anything else to say. >.>'

[~~Bakky~~]

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Angel80272

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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:44 pm

I only use BRB in conjunction with an image I have... so no text shows up in my conversations.
I occasionally will use RL instead of Real life when talking to my RP (roleplaying) buddies, but I rarely abbreviate things or slaughter the language like most people do nowadays.

Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 11:06 pm

An employeer contacted me via email, and used a variety of text talk and grammatical nightmares.

I didn't take the job.

-Non[Stop]Disco-

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ljosberinn

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:32 am

-Non[Stop]Disco-

An employeer contacted me via email, and used a variety of text talk and grammatical nightmares.

I didn't take the job.

rofl

I have problems with most abbrevations, apart from the most obvious, most used ones, ie. BRB, LOL/ROFL, WTF etc.

I sometimes use LOL because I find it funny, and occasionally BRB if I'm in a terrible hurry. And OMG if I'm joking, I find some weird pleasure in making fun of chat speak neutral

One of my friends uses abbrevations alot. I keep asking him what they mean, maybe in the vague hope that he might grow so tired of explaining them to me he might stop using them, at least when we two are chatting sweatdrop Examples are FFS (for ******** sake), TLC (tender lovin' care), and some more I can't remember. And he uses 'wai' for 'why'. And some other thing I can't remember either. It can be quite hard interpreting what he's actually trying to say >.<

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:45 am

OMG, I use that. Out of the guild obviously.

LOL, again, I use this out of the guild.

How r u? I don't use this.

WTF?! I use this one too. Only rarely though.

I can't think of a fifth one.

I hardly text talk except for the things I mentioned.

What can I say? I think it sounds better. ^_^

Violet the mystical

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Scythes R Us

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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:56 am

I use the occasional omg, lol, brb, g2g, stfu and wtf. But otherwise, I say what I need to say in ALL OF MY LETTERS!!! And the only time I use leet is when I'm joking around like "STFU ||00|3!!! But that's about it.
I really hate it when people text talk in fanfics on quizilla. HELLO! It's writing. YOU DON'T TEXT TALK IN WRITING scream . Yeah....pet peeve there cuz I want to be a writing teacher.

Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 8:59 am

OMG I use.
Lol I use, and have done within the guild a few times.
WTF? ..always, I sometimes even spell 'Doubleyew Tee Eff'.

Heh, I also say 'Wussat?' (What's that?) or 'Whussat?' (Who's that?)
I just find it ties with my dialect.

Apart from this, I only use acronyms, U, R, C. All pet peeves, And "Wuu2?" *anger*

I hear them all the time, Wuu2 I hear on a daily bases, but I don't have the heart to tell her to give it the f*ck up.