Althouse: Aren't we cute?

७ जुलै, २०१२

Aren't we cute?

With our abbreves.

२१ टिप्पण्या:

God, An Original A-hole म्हणाले...: Oh, GTFO!; ७/७/१२, ५:५४ PM
The Drill SGT म्हणाले...: I admit to using both basic internets abbreviations, and the classic military or techno ones as well.

but abbreves?

that's as much work as making sense of the wv's

i; ७/७/१२, ५:५७ PM
Scott म्हणाले...: Andy Rooney lives. wtf; ७/७/१२, ५:५८ PM
Roadkill म्हणाले...: ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.; ७/७/१२, ६:०६ PM
Lucien म्हणाले...: Didn't Ann have a post, a few weeks back, in which Sarah Silverman mocked twitter messages by sending one saying she had a "quickie aborsh"?

A dig, not just at tweets, but at abbreves.; ७/७/१२, ६:१९ PM
edutcher म्हणाले...: I don't think it's abreves as much as just lazy, although, like the Sgt, I've used professional slang aplenty, but that isn't always the same thing.; ७/७/१२, ६:२८ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Are there ones for other subjects?

Economics:
"U so marxies!"
"Lulz! Free mark caps 4 evs!"; ७/७/१२, ६:३८ PM
Humperdink म्हणाले...: I just love the first one in the link. OMG ... Obama Must Go.; ७/७/१२, ६:४१ PM
Petunia म्हणाले...: "Sunnies" and "sammies" aren't new abbreviations.

Look back over a century to find abbreviations in the days of telegraphy.

Also, as you linked to last week (?), Ann, even emoticons are over a century old.; ७/७/१२, ६:४२ PM
Freeman Hunt म्हणाले...: Student to Althouse:

"Any precies relv here?"; ७/७/१२, ६:४५ PM
yashu म्हणाले...: A lot of these are originally Britishisms-- e.g. "sunnies" and "sammies." First adopted as an affectation by anglophile yanks (in large part fashionistas).

Cf. "guv," "brill."

"Twee" itself, both the word and the concept, is of British extraction.; ७/७/१२, ७:०६ PM
Lyle म्हणाले...: I'm not a fan of abbreves. It is abused by people trying to be too "in" or too "cool". Hates it.; ७/७/१२, ७:३० PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: The author's perceptions are skewed by the fact that not one of the words in "You kids get off my lawn!" lends itself to abbreviation.; ७/७/१२, ७:३३ PM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Abbreves are not adorbs?; ७/७/१२, ९:१४ PM
Bob Ellison म्हणाले...: It comes from the control interface. People using tiny little keyboards on their phones, with Siri et al. correcting everything, often wrongly, grow quickly accustomed to TLAs, abbreviations, and newfangled shorthand.

People like me, who never learned to write longhand quickly but type fast, don't see the point of such stuff. Get the point across clearly, we think.

It's all communication. Not all of it is clear, but the Darwinistic evolution of efficient communication should be appreciated as natural.; ७/७/१२, ९:४८ PM
FWBuff म्हणाले...: "When you said you loved me,
Imagine my emosh.
I swore then and there
Permanent devosh."
-- from 'Swonderful by George Gershwin, 1927

The abbreves fad has been around a long time.; ७/७/१२, ९:५१ PM
Mary Beth म्हणाले...: They're including acronyms in with abbreviations so I'll add "YOLO".; ७/७/१२, ९:५६ PM
Curious George म्हणाले...: Abbreves are BS.; ७/७/१२, ९:५७ PM
tim maguire म्हणाले...: In "the lost weekend"--hardly a new movie--there's a character who uses many of these same abbreviations and another character who makes some of these same complaints. Isn't cicero suppsed to have complained about kids today?; ८/७/१२, १२:२८ AM
अनामित म्हणाले...: Not a fan - even of the old school ones - vacay, fam, micro. They're the verbal equivalent of a dotting your i's with a big heart as an adult.

I have more sympathy with ones that derive from texting because they were initially practical.

You know what is annoying? That Prince's cutesy junior high school love note spelling turned out to be the future.; ८/७/१२, ५:०३ PM
nichole म्हणाले...: Ermahgerd!!; ९/७/१२, १:१७ PM