Rather spiffy cause--save the English language, as much as it sucks...

[bloodygranuaile]

I have a few minor disagreements, although I mostly agree with it. "g2g" and "brb" are occasionally necessary, not because of one's own laziness, but because of the impatience of the parental unit downstairs who wants you to have terminated all AIM conversations and gotten down the stairs already by the time they're done calling your name once. (I have a one-syllable name. Gah.)

Smiley faces are often quite useful on AIM because people can't see your reaction, and trust me, it's really, REALLY wierd to write out a description, more often than not. Sometimes a reaction's just simply o.O, and while if you're writing a story or somesuch, you should find a way to express that reaction in words, dammit, it'd be a bit wierd and time-consuming to describe it all out in asteriks (or double colins, if you're so inclined).

I do tend to spell "Oh" as "O" on occasion. It's in too many old and old-style books. Tolkien seems to prefer "O" so that's what's gotten stuck in my head.

I agree with Moody in that words that are not English should not get stuck in an English protection project, and that whatever makes things easier for you in note-taking gets used in note-taking. I also agree in that it's pointless and stupid to try to prevent a language from evolving--however, "evolving" and "falling apart completely" are two totally different things. A language shouldn't evolve so quickly that it becomes a totally different language in the span of fifteen or sixteen years, which seems to be happening. I was IMing Paula the other day and was positive that she was not speaking in the language I grew up speaking, reading, and writing.

Anyway. Anything to avoid having to decipher anything else that's supposed to be in English into actual English. It's more trouble than it's worth.

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::agrees completely::

[tinuviel8994.livejournal.com]

When a conversation can go like this...

1: hey was^
2: nm u
1: nm2 jc
2: o, brb
1: k

...etc...

it's pretty drastic. ::clears throat self-righteously::

[endomiel.livejournal.com]

must say your rant makes complete sence... *gasp*
is kind of scary, but what can we do about it?