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The problem is that if someone used the damned dictionary to create abbreviations, e.g. SWAK, the recipient would spend as much time with the dictionaries trying to work out what the abbreviations actually mean.
At which point the whole thing becomes slightly pointless, wouldn't you say?
Yeahbutuhhh®, you're confusin' me a bit, here, Cap. Don't dictionaries simply chronicle already-extant words and abbreviations so when you encounter an unfamiliar one you can look it up? Why, and how, would you use a dictionary to create a Message Board abbreviation? IJW (I'm just wonderin'...).
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>if someone used the… dictionary to create abbreviations
what CK is saying, I'm guessing, is that if you use such a dictionary to add 'clever' initialisms to your posts and your reader(s) then have to use the same dictionary to understand your posts, then you're not saving much time by abbreviating but only indulging in mental masturbation. OTOH, if certain initialisms just seem to fall out of the normal flow of posting, then maybe that's a good-thing.
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Smiley indicates that I want you to laugh......LOL seems like an order to laugh
btw, I've always seen these as what I'm doing, not what I expect you to do.
Oh Dear! You are quite right, Etaoin, and I see that I must explain myself further. I know that I am laughing, but what is the response, I want from you? I use Smiley not only to convey my reaction, but sometimse, also to smoooth out potential wrinkles in a post. In discussion boards such as these, it is easy for one to misunderstand the intent behind the words, and somethings come out sounding harsher than they ever intented to. Smiley helps to not offend people's sensibilities. And a face does not cover up as much as the letters do, does it? 
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on some usenet (and other) forums it's considered an affectation, or just plain bad form, to add LOL to one's own comments--it's deemed equivalent to laughing at your own jokes. Does this mean that we've been breaking the rules for the past three years? Oh, sorry about that! That really was bad form.  Damn! LOL Oh, behave! I give up..... 
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Not that I ever observe this rule, but doesn't it come down to a case of "everything in moderation"?
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everything in moderation
Everything.
Including moderation.
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I agree with Heinlein about the big bites.
But with some reservations: Big bites of the good, but not of the bad like anger, revenge, depression...
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Heinlein was anal-retentive.
tsuwm's interpretation of what I said was correct.
Juan's wasn't.
Good night!
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Heinlein was anal-retentive.Yeah?...well, then, grok this! --Bob we all know youse a Heinlein fan from way back, so your Capfkaesque twist here won't work, mate!And, yes, I meant to thank tsuwm for ronobviousizing that one for me. Good morning. [since that's when you'll see this post]
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