Another from the fb page of my SIL (green). It hurts my brain.
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Oh this is great!
We need a whole thread dedicated to your SIL's facebook posts!
The first post is gold too!
It's like they're speaking their own language.
I had to read it out loud to translate it!
I don't understand people who know how to spell but don't apply that knowledge, even in casual writing.
I'm assuming she can spell because she graduated from a decent high school.
I'm assuming she can spell because she graduated from a decent high school.
Like i no,write?
U n I r 2 smart.
Haha! I can understand back in the day on the old cell phones where you had to press a key multiple times to get the letter you wanted, but there's no excuse on today's devices.
Well, I would like more of the FB posts, please. (If you can bear to try to read them.)
I was on an executive committee once of a volunteer organization. Texting and emailing from phones was rampant. There was just one person on the committee, a lady close to my age (she might be insulted by that) - I mean, my generation but a little younger, and she was the one that did all the text shortcuts. She was one of my very favorite people on the committee, but it drove me (and the rest of the committee) nuts. Maybe it took her half the time to write it, but it took everyone else double the time to read it.
I don't mind grammar errors, but I really have to draw the line at abbreviations I'm expected to know (though I am guilty of using some of the classics: OIC, BTW, OMG, IMHO). I've recently learned TTYL.
I kept seeing TBT on Facebook. To be truthful? The bratwurst theater? I mean, no clue. "Throwback Thursday." Great. How was I supposed to know THAT? At least it could double for "Throwback Tuesday," if there ever is such a thing. Or maybe there is, and I got Tuesday and Thursday reversed. I dunno. I'm getting old.
Half of them just pretend to know what the others are saying. IAJ.
I've told this story before , but the first time my niece lol'd me, I thought she was calling me a little old lady.
I know, I know. Just be thankful you're a least a lady.
I'm going to follow her fb posts more closelyWell, I would like more of the FB posts, please. (If you can bear to try to read them.)
I KWYM!
I thought it meant "lots of luck" and someone on a message board posted about having surgery and I commented "LOL". Awkward.
A few years ago, I texted my mom that I would call her soon with details, but we had stopped for the night off the interstate (when travelling home from vacation) because something had crashed into our windshield and it needed to be replaced. She texted back, "Be safe. Talk soon. LOL."
She thought it meant Lots of Love. She now knows it does not.
I actually can decipher the green one (I think), but I can't make anything of the blue one. Subtitles please?
And what do TTYL and IAJ mean?
'Lol' happens also to be an existing Dutch word, it means 'fun'. So I didn't recognize it as an abbreviation at all, at first, especially as the meaning is similar.
TTYL = Talk to you later
IAJ - not 100% sure, but guessing "I am joking".
I think the blue one says:
"No, not at all. Stand up but make sure you show them you are better than they are."
But I can't remember what was said that the comment was in reference to.