The IM Culture
Take a look at the following chat conversation:
[16:57] <ats> Does anyone have/know where 2 get the RENT movie?
[16:58] <Qsldkfjbuiphqew> isn’t there a place in ctown
[16:58] <Kenemien> why do you capitalize and punctuate properly and then abbreviate a TWO LETTER WORD?!?
[16:59] <kiwiii> Isn’t it fun to sometimes substitute a word for another wd?
[16:59] <kiwiii> Like, if I am talking to u, why write out "you"?
[16:59] <Qsldkfjbuiphqew> huzzah!
[17:00] <Kenemien> yes, but why go to the effort to make everything else correct, and then save yourself a single keystroke in one word?
[17:00] <kiwiii> It’s not much effort to type correctly, for us people.
[17:00] <kiwiii> So when we save a keystroke, we take IMMENSE delight!
[17:01] <Pseudonym> i never abbreviate, but i’m always too lazy to capitalize correctly
[17:02] <kiwiii> lack of capitalization is an abbreviation in the dimension of case
Are chat abbreviations and contractions bad? Who knows…
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