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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Ha.... well that's an interesting point!
patchoullijulie
Level 8
Aug 19, 2018
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It’s our age that’s the problem.....we just “don’t get” a lot of things!
Marionville
Level 10
Aug 19, 2018
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I also hate shortening. If you go to 'uni you should probably be able to say the whole word, even if it's slowly - u-ni-ver-sity. . And who grows 'veggies' in their garden? Is vegetables really so hard to say?
GoldenDoll
Level 7
Aug 19, 2018
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@Hellbent Yes I noticed the shortening a lot when I was in Australia earlier this year. I could understand 'barbie' but had trouble with 'kindie' - shortening a foreign word is pretty strange! But my favourite was "no strings or wings" - an instruction from the skipper on our sailing boat to the whitsundays. Another thing entirely I know, but not so far removed from our Cockney rhyming slang!
I'm with you. I speak English, not Emoji or Acronym.
I'm constantly looking up acronyms and stupid text-speak. Today reading a comment, I stopped to look up: "What does OTOH stand for?"
It means "on the other hand." That's not difficult to type. Why can't people write clearly?
LiterateHiker
Level 9
Aug 19, 2018
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