Join the Society of Stoners Against Abbreviators

[Tea Party]

Does all of this constant abbreviation bother the shit out of you?
It does me, and it is right up there with saying "like" every other word. Sorry, I am a curmudgeon.

It is bad enough that people communicate in shorthand, but now we have to hear it out loud too on these cellular phone commercials for text messaging. IDK what is with this bullshit--Dunno (I know that is not a word, but it looks like one at least) worked just fine in my day. And I am not LOL. In my day we just wrote HA! instead of LOL and it is the same amount of keystrokes. HA! Can I get an amen!?

[beachguy in thongs]

You want me to join the S.S.A.A.?

[Tea Party]

You want me to join the S.S.A.A.?
You rule!...ROFL!:thumbsup:

[beachguy in thongs]

You rule!...ROFL!:thumbsup:

Lol, thanks!

[4gan2ja0]

it isnt as bad when typing, but when people talk witht ehm, its quite annoying.
i use dunno and lol... but lol in my opinion is easier because althoguh they both have three strokes (ha! lol) l and o are right beside eachother and right by the enter button making it qquicker

[LIP]

I dont mind some, lol lmao rofl maybe a couple more but that's it. Over using them is something the youth of today seems to do. They write out whole bloody essays like it.

[trainwreck530]

dude eye think im like 2 much 4 u lol

[Psycho4Bud]

IDK....I'll have to chat with my BFF.....LOL!:D

Have good one!:jointsmile:

[LIP]

What does BFF mean?

[psteve]

What does BFF mean?Best friend forever.
(I can't believe I know that)

[Weedhound]

boys fucking fathers.....well it was close....:D

[LIP]

Best friend forever.
(I can't believe I know that)

Lol. I cant beleive you know that either hhaha.

Theres tons i havnt got a clue about - i mean, it took me long enough to work out what pmsl and ftw meant. I dont even use em.

[beachguy in thongs]

it took me long enough to work out what pmsl and ftw meant. I dont even use em.

Please mind my spelling and language?

For the wecord?

What's "em"?

[Psycho4Bud]

Best friend forever.
(I can't believe I know that)
I learned that one from a cell phone commercial. :cool:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

[psteve]

I learned that one from a cell phone commercial. :cool:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:TX P4B! u r ok!

[LIP]

Please mind my spelling and language?

For the wecord?

What's "em"?

Pissing Myself Laughing

and For The Win.

FTW i got from my days of playing CS:CZ.

[VoidLivesOn]

yatgfiotfp.

[M3nt0R]

Pissing Myself Laughing

and For The Win.

FTW i got from my days of playing CS:CZ.


LIP, I believe he was referring to your usage of "em" instead of "them" as a shorthand way of typing the word to look like it sounds when spoken casually.

[jagarr]

i have a really, really, really strange stigma towards people who 'talk' properly on message boards... like for some reason, i immediately relate well-edited posts about nothing in particular to their posters' level of arrogance. i mean, we're just chatting here ya know? you dont have to write every post like its some persuasive religious doctrine that will be read by millions of potential followers. and grammar nazis piss me off, too. basic punctuation and paragraph breaks are blessings for the eyes, but you dont have to fcking pick people apart over it.

tldr version: i see little/no editing and i think 'casual, friendly' - i see tons of heavy editing and shit and i think 'arrogant assmunch' but its probably just me:D

this doesnt apply to all situations, like if youre writing an informative article meant to help out your fellow forumgoers then by all means make it look publishable. but if you're quick replying to 'WHATS UR FAVORITE STONED QUESTION TO ASK?' then it doesnt need to read like homer...

[LIP]

LIP, I believe he was referring to your usage of "em" instead of "them" as a shorthand way of typing the word to look like it sounds when spoken casually.

I knew that :wtf:

Hahaha, i didnt even see that he'd wrote that. I guess i should read things more thoroughly.

[psteve]

it doesnt need to read like homer...True, but it also shouldn't read like Homer.

[silkyblue]

Im blown away at all the ways
weve discovered to talk to each other!
btw

you cannot pick up a land line roaming

:jointsmile:

[jagarr]

True, but it also shouldn't read like Homer.

haha, too easy psteve:thumbsup:

[Born To Stone]

The ones you mentioned don't bother me but when people tlk lik dis it gts n my nrves....
Can't stand text message speak especially when you have a keyboard so there is pretty much no need :wtf:

[Man Beast]

The one I dislike the most is ICU (I see you) as in, Internet crimes unit.

Not an abbreviation or related, but the word I hate the most on the internet is 'meh'. That word has absolutely no meaning to me.

[slipknotpsycho]

The one I dislike the most is ICU (I see you) as in, Internet crimes unit.

Not an abbreviation or related, but the word I hate the most on the internet is 'meh'. That word has absolutely no meaning to me.

it means i don't care, it's a more polite way of saying 'so what?' or 'do i seem like a person to give a shit?'

sry, no thx dude i'm too lazy to worry about appropriate grammar and shit... lol... like really, wtf... this ain't school or something.... o.0


i move to create a new society... the society against those who are against abbreviators, or S.A.T.W.A.A.A.

[slipknotpsycho]

b351d3s t|-|3r3 4r3 \/\/0r53 f0r|\/|5 0f tY|D1|\|g 0uT T|-|3r3.....

[Man Beast]

it means i don't care

LOL, good one.

[CanaDanKs Inc.]

boys fucking fathers.....well it was close....:D

Hahaha woah, close indeed!

[Tea Party]

i have a really, really, really strange stigma towards people who 'talk' properly on message boards... like for some reason, i immediately relate well-edited posts about nothing in particular to their posters' level of arrogance. i mean, we're just chatting here ya know? you dont have to write every post like its some persuasive religious doctrine that will be read by millions of potential followers. and grammar nazis piss me off, too. basic punctuation and paragraph breaks are blessings for the eyes, but you dont have to fcking pick people apart over it.

tldr version: i see little/no editing and i think 'casual, friendly' - i see tons of heavy editing and shit and i think 'arrogant assmunch' but its probably just me:D

this doesnt apply to all situations, like if youre writing an informative article meant to help out your fellow forumgoers then by all means make it look publishable. but if you're quick replying to 'WHATS UR FAVORITE STONED QUESTION TO ASK?' then it doesnt need to read like homer...

Is it arrogant for somebody who is a great athlete to feign klutziness whilst sporting with those who lack skill? Skill and arrogance are two separate things. I love America, but the worst of America's pervasive views is that mental skill is arrogant and white collar, but physical skill is noble and blue collar. This is why we have the leadership in government that we do. All of the best scholars of history were blue collar after all...

It seems more arrogant to talk down to people than it does to give them the chance to talk up. Faking bad grammar in order to be down with the masses is phony--and something best left to George Bush Junior. For those who are not faking, at least take advantage of the spell checker, which conveniently underlines ones mistakes.:thumbsup:

It also seems detrimental to the decriminalization movement for cannabis users to display themselves publicly as idiots--though many of us are--because that is the main weapon that the Drug War uses against us in the first place. Marijuana does not make a person stupid, but amplifies one's stupidity if it is already present.

It is also nice to write posts that other people can readily understand. We are all too busy to have to break out the teenage decoder ring for every other post when we are trying to learn how to save our sick plants or our sick world....I just like to keep these things in mind as much as I can when posting on public message boards (which is essentially the same thing as having a public discussion with a group of strangers out in the real world). Somebody is taking the time to listen and read this shit! Ewww...I said, shit. I am so casual and funny! You can trust me to smoke a joint with you!:rasta:

That being said, Jaggar, most times I feel the same way as you do (and that is why I edited this post dressed in a diaper and baby bonnet while smoking a cigar in an antique Victorian perambulator--so as not to take myself too seriously), and find myself so arrogant that I try to spend as little time with myself as possible...but pedants are people too, so I must stick in there and give myself a chance!:D

[Hilder420]

im have a bit of ocd when it comes to misspellings and punctuation... if i see a red line because of spell check i HAVE to correct it..if i se something misspelles, i HAVE to make fun of it... i usually always spell check my posts, sometimes i miss Shit, but its ok.... if im posting while on my pda, i will abbreviate b/c the keyboard is so small.. if im on the pc ill type all out... Besides the fact that my english is Damn near perfect, and i am an avid reader and self proclaimed geek... but a cool one :D yeah but i decided early on that i was not gonna be another dumb illiterate poor mexican... well im still kinda poor, but thats just cuz i HAVE champagne taste with mixed drink money lol
more than half of my graduating class read at a 5th grade level.. half of em had kids..a few were like 19 goin on 20! some didnt pass the TAAS (now TAKS..) its Texas' version of academic skills standardized tests.. which was a requirement to graduate.. it was so funny, another kid and i had to retake the tests because we did too well and they thought we cheated!! even though, a kid next to me got caught cheating and was allowed to keep taking the test!! up until i started smoking, u couldnt get me to say or type cuz or n e way haha. i actually went online and had to learn this Shit!
OH when people do the folowing:
there, meaning their or they're
weather meaning wether
thru for through
haha theres more, but im too stone to remember - peace - Hilder

[r0k]

Meh 47 |3457 _m057_ p30p|3 d0n'7 74|k |1k3 7h15. 1 7h1nk 1 w1|| fr0m n0w 0n.

[Old Stoner]

I try not to use abbreviations - it bothers the heck out of me. Some are okie dokie, but most just confuse my ass, especially when I'm stoned.

Hell, I'm 50, I have a RIGHT to be confused, LOL....

Oh, let me just edit this post!

Hilder, I just read yours - I have a touch of that OCD as well. Not as bad as Monk on the boob tube, but bad enough, lol... :thumbsup:

[SMOKEnCHOKE]

word

[happiestmferoutthere]

Meh 47 |3457 _m057_ p30p|3 d0n'7 74|k |1k3 7h15. 1 7h1nk 1 w1|| fr0m n0w 0n.
A really funny thing is I understood every word of that, unlike some of the gibberish on here that is actually written in English.

[birdgirl73]

I used to find abbreviators more annoying than I do now. I still think people are silly to do cell phone text on a full keyboard (U R 2 good 2 B tru--that sort of thing). But for some people, that's their style, just like my style was developed on a full keyboard and as a writer who wrote for a living for many years. So I tend to write like I learned to write--before the days when any sort of electronic text devices ever existed.

I try real hard to give other people's styles a break. I confess I will occasionally pick apart a deeply and abidingly illiterate sort if he slams someone else for stupidity or, as happened on another sub-forum earlier, if someone writes an incomprehensibly illiterate sentence advising someone else to read more. That was irony of the highest order, and it begged to be confronted.

I would hope that most cannabis advocates would have the live-and-let-live mentality about how folks express themselves. If someone attaches a stigma to people who write coherently and clearly like poor Jagarr above, then that's a perception problem on part of the attacher, not the writer. If I attach a stigma to people who abbreviate, then that's my problem and not the abbreviator's. If there's one thing that this place teaches you, it's an appreciation for differences. And an appreciation for the spell-checker we have here. Even when I use it, I still find mistakes in what I wrote later on.

I love "meh," by the way! It sounds just like would look if you could see someone say it in person: curt, disdainful and slightly dismissive. Any word that can convey that in only three letters is alright by me.

[Hilder420]

i see a snooty frenchman with a thin mustache waving his hand goin meh! and turning up his nose hahaha

[mjbennett06]

i lv abr vm, its fucking awesome , rofl


GO S.O.S.A.A.

[L Rag]

Whats QTF?

[happiestmferoutthere]

Whats QTF?
Quoted For Truth (QFT)

[Man Beast]

Sometimes I see in quotes, (SIC). Wonder what the fritos that means.

[happiestmferoutthere]

Sometimes I see in quotes, (SIC). Wonder what the fritos that means.
It usually indicates misspelled words people know are misspelled.

Sic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic)

[happiestmferoutthere]

By the way(see - no abbreviation!) I have noticed I write more proper than I speak. I always did well in English in school. I always wrote awesome essays! It bothers me if my post looks bad.
So sue me!:p

[psteve]

I write more proper than I speak.
You mean you write more properly than you speak.

[happiestmferoutthere]

You mean you write more properly than you speak.
ahhh... Touche!:thumbsup:

[Old Stoner]

Amen, birdgirl, live and let live.

[trainwreck530]

i will join the S.A.T.W.A.A.A.

[yoda]

b351d3s t|-|3r3 4r3 \/\/0r53 f0r|\/|5 0f tY|D1|\|g 0uT T|-|3r3.....

ROFL!

as i read the society's name, i abbreviated it. then it struck me what your purpose is then laughed out loud. i think the shit should stay out of commercials though....you know what im talking about.

[birdgirl73]

Speaking of commercials, has anyone see that one where a mom is lecturing her family about too much text-messaging? I think it's a commercial for Verizon. She's going on and on about the phone bill being outlandish, and the kids, husband and grandma are all texting away on their devices and rolling their eyes. When the mom turns to chastise the little old grandma, texting away in her chair, grandma says "MYOB, will you?" and brushes her off.

I tend to notice effective ads since I spent part of my professional life writing them. To me, that was a clever use of abbreviations in an ad.

[maryjaNe_]

Only thing i dislike alot is people overusing rofl.. annoys the fuck out of me for some reason.

[Nation_1ne]

I think they are very handy for IM and SMS, I use them commonly in both. I try not to use them so much in my writing on the forum, or anywhere that I feel I have the time to write in full for that matter. I really do prefer reading peoples posts in full, but if they don't it's no big deal. So whilst I feel abbreviations can be a pain in the ass, they are also extremely handy and ideal for certain situations.

[el_fantistico]

The only two I really use anyways is WTF and BTW... the rest can go!

El Fantistico :smokin:

[Tea Party]

Speaking of commercials, has anyone see that one where a mom is lecturing her family about too much text-messaging? I think it's a commercial for Verizon. She's going on and on about the phone bill being outlandish, and the kids, husband and grandma are all texting away on their devices and rolling their eyes. When the mom turns to chastise the little old grandma, texting away in her chair, grandma says "MYOB, will you?" and brushes her off.

I tend to notice effective ads since I spent part of my professional life writing them. To me, that was a clever use of abbreviations in an ad.
Bird Girl, congratulations for escaping the predatory ad game. That is exactly the commercial that spawned this thread! It is a Cingular commercial, and I am switching carriers because of it...so it was not so effective on me:D It lacks any creativity. It panders to the insecurity of adults, and the superiority complexes of teenagers. I fail to see anything clever about the ad either.
I cannot stand it when ad campaigns humiliate seniors (or adults in general) by supposing they would ever by as idiotic as teenagers (some are, I know).
Rapping grannies especially piss me off (with the possible exception of the one from The Wedding Singer). Dogs in tutus...anybody speaking like Snoop Dogg who is not actually Snoop themselves...any commercial that portrays adults as being perpetually square in order to extract $$$ from them by selling them some device makes me want to puke blood. It is bad enough that advertising is aimed almost entirely at the young, but when they try to switch it around on the grown-ups...:wtf4:I do not care what you do to a telephone. It will never be cool. Those Blue Tooth earpieces...forget about it. Every time I see somebody wearing one I want to smack it out of their ear. I wish somebody would invent a word that worked as well as "gay" to describe a scene like that, but that did not offend homosexuals at the same time...but until they do, there is nothing gayer* than wearing one of those electric toothbrushes in your ear.

*Note to practicing homosexuals, or those considering that perfectly respectable lifestyle: My apologies for using the term gay to describe something that is obviously ridiculous. I totally support the rights of individuals to practice homosexual sex. It is only the self-important, big money, Eurotrash, fashion bullshit that often, not always, but most often goes with it that I cannot stand.