by djcraig » Sat Jun 17, 2006 2:45 am
[quote][i]Originally posted by Mechi[/i]
<br>All this jokes cause I shorten "Something" to sth.
You people in English shorten all the words that you can and it's not that obvious what you are meaning:
LOL: lots of laugh
BTW: by the way
WTF: hehe... you know the meaning of this one [:p]
OMG: oh my God
PCR: polymerase chain reaction... that's my fav one... how on earth how can you deduce it's meaning??
And you don't get that sth is something?? [}:)]
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No, we shorten PHRASES or GROUPS of words. Not so much individual words unless they are exceedingly long, like LSD. And these abbreviations are often capitalized. It helps to distinguish them from typos.
If we start shortening all 9 letter or longer words like "something", it will lead straight to pdm!
You didn't get that?
It's "pandemonium"...
Anyway it's all in good fun.
Now let's get back to Frayo's relationship problems, bruised psyche, inner child, etc...[:D]