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I went to the clinic today to do a check-up for TB, took an X-ray, almost forgot to take my watch back, no biggie (I hope). [cross my fingers] I was in and out of there in 35 minutes. Man! I took longer just to get there!
I had just finished writing up yesterday's post (the Spellings Section), and I made some changes to the entry, namely the "THIS IS AN EXAMPLE" line witten in the "new language". Apparently, people use "3" in place of the letter "E".
Emoticons:
Also known as Smilies, there are so many emoticons out there that people don't need words to express themselves anymore. A picture is worth a thousand words.
As the Comic Book Guy of The Simpsons says it best in one episode, "there are no emoticons to express my emotions." Does he have a name, by the way? Adjectives that describe feelings are becoming endangered.
Abbreviations:
Assume nothing. Your target audience doesn't understand what you mean when you speak in abbrevations. I had to figure out every abbrevation used commonly in Internet conversations all by myself. It wasn't fun! What the heck is "brb"? I thought the person burps, and for some odd reason, decides to share with everyone who is willing to listen!
It wasn't until much later that I gathered all of the pieces together. I had no idea what "lmao" meant when I entered a Chatroom once. I thought the person had mispelled "llama" at first, and I wondered what on Earth is a "llama" doing in a Chat?? Afterwards, I guessed it was "lame oh," but, because people kept saying it, I dismissed the ideas of "llama" and "lame oh" since I doubted that so many people would spell "llama" and "lamo" wrong in one Chat. So, I resorted to just ask the people what they meant by lmao". Most people ignored me. [cough] typical [/cough] And a few "nice" people just repeated the joke to me. What stupid people, I thought! I asked them one thing and they answered another! I can read the screen, idiots! I can simply scroll upwards to see the joke!
Joke's on me, huh?
Some people are so immersed in the cyber world that they actually begin to speak in the Internet language. It's quite amusing, really, although I think more people will talk in this way in real life in the future, thus making it the norm. On a bus, a guy hears a joke from his companion and responds to it by saying "el-oh-el" (as in "lol").
Instead of laughing out loud like normal people would, the guy said l-o-l!
<-- this smilie is called "rotfl", I have been trying to figure out what these letters stand for for two months now, and it just hit me a few days ago that it is the acronym for "roll on the floor". Is that right? Like I said, I figure these things out by myself, so, I am not 100% sure...
: I guess I am basically done on the Writing and Internet language issues. I just want to emphasize that languages are constantly evolving, and I am not one to stop the moving train. Let it change, but only so fast that people can actually jump on the train from the platform.