YK, IMHO, I hate acronyms like IMHO.
In my hesitating honest humble opinion, when writing an article… one shouldn’t use acronyms that aren’t really acronyms, well, that is only MHO. I don’t like reading formal articles that suddenly strain my eyes with capital letters that only 12 year olds know how to decipher.
Anyway, I am guilty of writing LOL, OMG and BTW, but I try to rid myself of that. And this is a lifelog; I don’t believe anyone will consider my entries as “formal articles”. I don’t write it like that.
BTW, HYS (have you seen) the commercial 4 AT&T? IHISM. I hate it so much!!!
I especially hate stupid acronyms that are actually spoken in a sentence- just like in the video. It is bringing the annoyance level up. “Hahahah! Lol! Ow Em Gee, that is so funny!!” Jeezums, don’t they realize how stupid sounding it is? I hope all the acronym users get transported to a different planet where they can alphabet talk all they want. And I hope a harmonious life for them decoding acronyms that, for all I know, have a dozen meaning. FU!!! Friends Unite. Fuck U. Forgotten Undies. Forever Underrated. Figure (it out) Urself.
Next to internet slang is text speak. Text messaging caught late here in the States, but back in the Philippines, back in highschool, I knew how troublesome it can get. I wasn’t a fan of writing words that lack letters, usually a vowel, but this can’t be helped. I hated it because it can confuse the reader and the message is sometimes understood differently. Some shortened words could be translated into more than one and I’d end up scratching my head what the heck the sender meant. Usually, this leads to misunderstanding due to misinterpretation. “Nmn” could be “naman” or “namin” or possibly “namana”. It’s such a waste to text back and ask “Ano?” I can forgive this when I read them as text messages, other than that, no. Come on!!! Writing emails and internet posts doesn’t restrict you to 60 characters. I don’t see a reason why you should publish as if you had limited memory space. Also, nowadays, you can send a text message in parts so you don’t really need to fit a message into 60 character “SMS”. Those days are supposedly long gone. I don’t really see it as a problem here, but I’m sure in Manila, it still is. “Db? 220 nmn a! Gst k nxt tym hnd n gn2 mgtxt kc nkkbd3p. Buti nlng frnds q hnd gn2 mgtx skn.”
Sheesh, can’t people exert effort to exercise their brain and develop language skills the proper way?
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LOL.. oops.. well, i’m guilty to typing LOL, OMG, WTF, BTW, LMAO, or ROFL. They’re kind of common in net speak. But yes, i do agree with you, and so will my mom if she reads this entry. She hates it when people text in shortcuts. I do that with my prepaid phone because i’m so kuripot and i try to minimize the text i’m sending. With my line naman, i shortcut sometimes, i think it has become a habit. But not when i’m texting in english. It IS annoying when you read a blog with shortcut words like the last part of your entry. But some people are really annoying like that.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to you! i made a gift and you’re included in the list of people i’d like to give e-cards to. You can find it somewhere here.. http://muzikistah.com/2007/12/24/christmas-gifts-2007/
di ka naman masyadong galit nu? hehehe! naalala ko napagalitan mo ko dati sa pagte2xt (ooppssss!!) pagte-text ng “kmain na u?” hahaha!!! la lang… di na ako ganon magtext ng dahil sa’yo hehe! salamat!
hahahahaha =]]
dude, may bagong super annoying! matagal na ata, pero mas nakakainis siya ngayon:
a. yung WHERE NA U? HERE NA ME? textmessages! basta yung U-ME na yan! hahaha =]]
b. yung MuZtaH nAh pOh u? oWkEi LnG nAmaN mEeh. hahaha san ka pa? pahirapan sa spelling at pag-uppercase-lowercase ng letters. hahaha!
BWISEEEEETTTT!!!
AHAHA!!! Yung U-Me matagal ko na naiinis yun. Basahin mo yung comment ni Maan, sabi nya napagalitan ko sya. HEHEHE!! (Ex ko si Maan, yiii Kilig!!)
Yung uppercase naman, dati ginagawa ko pag same letters magkasunod, so imbis na nagaantay ako para mag enter ulit, I press the capscontrol para mabilis. pero later hindi ko na din ginagawa.
bwiset talaga ano?
giftie giftie
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Sarj!!! Merry Christmas… naku sana naaalala mo pako… XD I also mourn the day emoticons and those acronyms became a part of the spoken language… XD (tapos biglang nag-emoticon eh ano)… pero di nga… lalo na sa text… leche… di ko na binabasa…
Hi ate sarj! I won’t be home this Christmas so I’ll be greeting you in advance instead! hehe.
Merry Christmas and a blessed New Year!
OMG! Wer na u? dto na me! hehe. just kidding
Merry Christmas ulet!
yeah i agree.. minsan talga sobrang nakakbobo yung kulang kulang yung letra.. ive been lurking the net for the longest time,but until now di ko pa alam yung ibang acronym.. oh well!
guilty ako jan minsan. haha. di ko namamalayan na natatype ko nmn instead of naman. toinks. nasanay na kasi ata sa kakatext. rawr
anyway, ingat lagi! merry xmas! ily.
calm down! *LOL* hahaha! Well, I do agree with your post. It does annoy me when people type in “text speak” When I send a text message, I usually use whole words.
Anyway, Merry Christmas!
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napanod ko ang commercial madalas sa tv hehehe pero mas natawa ako dun ke grandma LOL hehehe
kunting acronyms lang naman alam ko eh yung madalas gamitin sa net at alam ng lahat. ako walang paki as long as hindi nila ako readers at hindi ko sila txtmate pero pagganun ang txtmate ko sinasabihan ko agad na hindi ko sila maintindihan
LOL!!!!
ahahaha, OMG gaya nyan I think I have to give it a rest! pero nahurt ako kasi I do that sometimes for some words like LOL, BTW yun lang naman… I hate texting in short words na , nakakabaliw na hindi mo maintindihan, para bang D-uh??? kakabobing hehee.
promise iiwasan ko na mag sabi ng BTW at LOL yun lang naman ang gamit ko eh.
Aaaw Kitty!! Hahaha! I meant yung mga supposed to be formal articles I read tapos bigla biglang makakabasa ako ng IMHO.. naiinis ako!!!! parang dapat serious ito eh, eh bakit bigla naging NYEK! HAHAHA!! Okay lang ako sa mga LOL and BTW sa mga blogs kasi shortcut yun… haha!! pati informal entries naman sila.
ayoko ng u me sa text… wer na u? yak! pwede naman wer r u? m here instead of dito na me. mas maikli pa. arte ko!