Anyone else annoyed by internet slang terms such as ppl, lol, IMHO?

your English teacher wrote:

Besides, repetition of poor grammar and the use of slang terms increases the likelihood of it appearing in undesirable place (such as in an exam or term paper). It does not take a large amount of intelligence to form a correct sentence.

I suppose that's true. However, if that's the case, what happened to your first sentence (above)?

What's that they say about people who live in glass houses?

your English teacher wrote:

Do people no longer want to speak standard english? I am encouraging everyone to preserve the correct usage of the English language. Besides, repetition of poor grammar and the use of slang terms increases the likelihood of it appearing in undesirable place (such as in an exam or term paper). It does not take a large amount of intelligence to form a correct sentence. However, if you fail to do so, you will appear unintelligent. You can help put an end to these "language butchers" by not contributing to the disease (of poor grammar and ridiculous abbreviations). I will calmly step down from my "soap box" now.

For what it's worth (FWIW): ppl, lol, and IMHO, isn't slang, they are called 'facetious forms' or 'initialisms.'

A white trash haplology like 'prolly' would be an example of slang.

The worst abbr. is "ur."

I h8 that 1.

Seriously, English is a rich language, so let's not render it obsolete. There is nothing wrong with using abbreviations or acronyms in a medium where typing speed facilitates casual conversation, but hopefully English will be preserved somewhere. Otherwise, our communicative power will be vitiated.

In some small way, that would make us pwned.

what i really hate is how asians type "dun" instead of "don't". i'm not kidding. i see it all the time and when I do it is usually from some korean kid.

^5 High Five!

2BCTND To Be Continued

2G4U Too Good For You

4YEO For Your Eyes Only

AFAIK As Far As I Know

AKA Also Known As

ASAP As soon as possible

AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet?

AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through That Again

AYPI And Your Point Is?

B4 Before

BBL Be Back Later

BBIAF Be Back in a Few

BBIAB Be Back in a Bit

BCNU Be Seein' You

BEG Big Evil Grin

BFD Big F***ing Deal

BFN Bye For Now

BG Big Grin

BIF Basic In Fact

BRB Be Right Back

BTSOOM Beats The S*** Out Of Me

BTW By The Way

CM Call Me

CUL8R See You Later

DUR? Do You Remember?

F2F Face To Face

FWIW For What It's Worth

FYA For Your Amusement

FYI For Your Information

FU F***ed Up

FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition

FUD (Spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation

GAL Get A Life

GMTA Great Minds Think Alike

GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking

HHO 1/2 K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding

HTH Hope This(That) Helps

IAE In Any Event

IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer, But ...

ICWUM I See What You Mean

IMO In My Opinion

IMHO In My Humble Opinion

IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion

IOW In Other Words

IRL In Real Life

J4F Just For Fun

JK Just Kidding

KISS Keep it Simple Stupid

L8R Later

LOL Laughing Out Loud

LTNS Long Time No See

MorF Male or Female

MHOTY My Hat's Off To You

MOTD Message Of The Day

MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex

MTFBWU May The Force Be With You

NBIF No Basis In Fact

NFW No F***ing Way

NRN No Reply Necessary

NT No Text (used if a message is empty, Subject: only)

OBO Or Best Offer

OBTW Oh, By The Way

OIC Oh, I see

OOTB Out Of The Box (or Blue)

OTOH On The Other Hand

POV Point Of View

PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In

ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing

ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off

RSN Real Soon Now

RTFM Read The F***ing Manual

RTM Read The Manual

SITD Still In The Dark

SMTOE Sets My Teeth On Edge

SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up

SWAP Scientific Wild A** Guess

SorG Straight or Gay?

T+ Think Positive

TAFN That's All For Now

TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch

TIA Thanks In Advance

TIC Tongue In Cheek

TMTT Too Much To Type

TTFN Ta Ta For Now

TTYL Talk To You Later

TTTT To Tell The Truth

TX Thanks

TYCLO TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF

TYVM Thank You Very Much

unPC unPolitically Correct

WAG Wild Ass Guess

WB Welcome Back

WEG Wicked Evil Grin

WRT With respect to

WTF? What The F***?

WTG Way To Go!

WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

X! Typical Woman

Y! Typical Man

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

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Smiley's:

:-) smiley face (humour)

:-)) laugh

(-: left handed smiley

;-) wink (light sarcasm)

:-| indifference

:-> devilish grin (heavy sarcasm)

8-) big-eyed smiley

:-D shock or surprise

:-/ perplexed

:-( sad

:-C real unhappy

:-P wry smile

;-} leer

;-( crying

:-* kiss

:-X big wet kiss

:-e disappointment

:-@ scream

:-O yell

>;-> A very lewd remark was just made

:-& Tongue tied

:-{} wears lipstick

O:-) Angel smiley

:-Q Smoking smiley

:-[ Vampire smiley

I don't like those abbreviations, so I don't use them.

A word that really annoys me is "newbie". What happened to the word "beginner"? "Newbie" is a word that I have never actually heard spoken, but it is seen all the time on the internet. Has anyone ever the word "newbie" spoken?

Not annoyed at all. It IS the 21st century you know, adapt or die.

"Newbie" - repeatedly used in Scrubs for JD.

JD = John Dorian.

who says newbie anymore? they all say "n00b".

Acronyms FTW!

? wrote:

WTF?!

LOL!

your English teacher wrote:

Do people no longer want to speak standard english? I am encouraging everyone to preserve the correct usage of the English language.

I agree. What is this word "internet"? It sure didn't exist in my day - we called it the "world wide web" - and we liked it that way. Same goes for "email". It used to be electronic-mail, then some whippersnapper went and changed the name. When did we all decide that "horseless carriage" was too long and needed to be abbreviated? For that matter when did the word "usage" replace "use"? At the very least, please insert "ye olde" before any of these new words.

Hmmm, I just assume that anyone who uses all those abbreviations isn't very intelligent. I'm often wrong, but I really can't help perceiving them that way.

There are a few that I can deal with -- FWIW and IMHO -- mainly because they are considerably shorter than the phrases they replace and I can understand why someone would want to use them. But write "l8r" or "ur" and I'll just assume you're ditzy*.

Sorry, don't mean to h8.

*Wow, I don't think I've ever typed out the word "ditzy". That's awesome.

OMGWTFBBQ!11!

OMGWTFBBQ!11!

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#%$*&@^!

Yea!

That's the way to tell those lazy SOB's!

Too bad your English is NFG.

It's very irritating. Even the Doctor has joined in. He keeps writing URTI on my form when I visit him, or is it UTI. I can never make out his blasted handwriting.