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Oh this is great!
Oh this is great!
We need a whole thread dedicated to your SIL's facebook posts!
The first post is gold too!
I had to read it out loud to translate it!It's like they're speaking their own language.
Like i no,write?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.
Like i no,write?
U n I r 2 smart.
Well, I would like more of the FB posts, please. (If you can bear to try to read them.)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.
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 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.
Half of them just pretend to know what the others are saying. IAJ.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.
I know, I know. Just be thankful you're a least a lady.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'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 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 thought it meant "lots of luck" and someone on a message board posted about having surgery and I commented "LOL". Awkward.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've told this story before , but the first time my niece lol'd me, I thought she was calling me a little old lady.
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I thought it meant "lots of luck" and someone on a message board posted about having surgery and I commented "LOL". Awkward.
TTYL = Talk to you laterI 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.
IAJ...I don't remember.TTYL = Talk to you later
IAJ - not 100% sure, but guessing "I am joking".
I actually can decipher the green one (I think), but I can't make anything of the blue one. Subtitles please?
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