Do you TEXT? Some helpful abbreviations!
Though his column deals with mortgage rates and financial information, this week Foster Weeks has this tip in his weekly newsletter, "JUST LIKE THE PROGRAMMING OF VCR'S IN YEARS PAST...THE YOUNGER GENERATION IS BYPASSING MANY OF US WITH THEIR NEW LINGO AND ABBREVIATIONS NOW FOUND EVERYWHERE, IN EMAILS, TEXT MESSAGES, INSTANT MESSENGER, MESSAGE BOARDS. AND IF YOU AREN'T ON BOARD WITH TSL (TEXTING AS A SECOND LANGUAGE), YOU MIGHT BE SOL (SORELY OUT OF LUCK)."SO IF YOU'RE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH SPEED AND EASE IN TODAY'S TECH-SAVVY WORLD, READ THIS WEEK'S MORTGAGE MARKET VIEW...AND BECOME PART OF THE ABBREVIATION NATION."
Webopedia has a pretty good list of text message abbreviations and their meanings as does TechDictionary. For example, .02 means "my two cents worth" and :)
In our politically correct society where words have gotten longer (such as janitor now is "sanitation engineer"), maybe the younger generation is ready to GTTP (which means "get to the point"! I just made that one up!!!)
- Mick Orton
posted by SFResidence.com @ 8:09 AM
1 Comments:
You are getting pretty original with your acronyms. Funny I just added a post today to my blog about acronyms take a peek http://www.tonicarr.com/blog/?p=41
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