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#84886 10/28/02 05:13 PM
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aauugh! i hate that stuff..L8r and so on.. i have with long habit, learned words, and how to read them.. and i still mess up all the time, (and misread crossword puzzle clues, and other shorthanded text)

i have difficultly reading text that is rebus like with number and symbols in place of letters (like 8 for the ate/eight sound in the middle of later.

I like it here, where you guys are all so kind, and forgive my spelling errors where thing are writen, and i can read them.. (even if it takes me a reading or two to get some of the puns, and word plays)

i don't mind exploring the concept, since i see it as a valid part of language (there have been articles about teachers finding things like L8R or Be4 in home work and test essays,) but as a short discussion about LOL's shows, LOL's jargon, a coded language used in a specific context. and the meaning changes, (rapidly!) with time and context.

it does influence language and WORDS but please, lets not use it here!


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OK. <eg>


#84888 10/31/02 10:22 PM
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OK. <eg>
You have my permission to smack her, Helen!


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well, Jackie, what is the correct spelling of OK?
do you think it should be okay?

hey, this is a perfect valide exploration of alternate spelling.. color/colour--grey/gray-- and others..



#84890 10/31/02 11:58 PM
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eether.

but what's <eg> mean?

and is it goo-gluh-rees or goo-guhl-rees?



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#84891 11/01/02 12:54 AM
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is it goo-gluh-rees or goo-guhl-rees?
AUGH! [running in screaming circles pulling hair e]

EG, I learned to my chagrin (having assumed it meant enormous grin) means evil grin.

Helen, I said you could smack Consuelo because I thought that she made a post of letters-in-place-of-whole-words on purpose, right after you asked that that kind of thing not be done here!


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EG, I learned to my chagrin (having assumed it meant enormous grin) means evil grin.

thanks, Jackie. <G>



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#84893 11/01/02 02:15 AM
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Do you-all know, I actually did not realize what I had done, till I read eta's post? Wonder if <cg> would catch on as cha-grin...


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<gch>

Grinch


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<gcg>

??

grin-cha-grin
sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la


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