IHNI
Posted by Lisa Newman on Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Do you know what that stands for? I Have No Idea. This is in reference to all the abbreviations I see online that I have no idea what they stand for and I always ask my brilliant husband what it means. Somehow he always figures it out. I mean no disrespect to anyone who uses abbreviations online. Sometimes it makes me feel like email was just invented and I missed the class where they teach you how to draft and send emails. Do you know what I'm talking about here?!
LOL is about the extent of my knowledge. :) Unless you are using abbrevs. that are well known in written documents such as shorthand or terms used to grade/comment on papers such as "b/c" and "etc." But these are common knowledge, right? It's not surprising that I'm slow in this area because I only figured out the ease of T9 (why is it called that anyway?) 2 years ago and was probably the last of my friends to get a cell phone in 2003.
LMN SO & PO
If you can't figure that out then you must be trippin'. J/K but keep it on the DL, K? I wouldn't want to mislead anyone. This is probably another reason why I never got into the whole chat room things years ago because it involves waaaay too many of those words. I wouldn't be able to keep up.
I still prefer written word to any other form of communication. If I didn't have kids, I'd probably write more letters. I love the feel of the pen on the paper and the mystery of committing to the word your hand writes. There's sheer honesty in this because even if you cross it out, people know you changed your mind. Were you distracted when you wrote it? Did it sound different than you expected? Was it a simple typo?
When I used to teach, I found the overuse of the internet was doing a major disservice to our youth. Some students would literally not know it was inappropriate to use those abbreviations in a formal college essay.
All of this to say I still feel behind the times and often like an ignoramus when it comes to capital letters typed out to mean something other than what you're currently viewing. Thank God I have a REALLY internet savvy husband.
LOL is about the extent of my knowledge. :) Unless you are using abbrevs. that are well known in written documents such as shorthand or terms used to grade/comment on papers such as "b/c" and "etc." But these are common knowledge, right? It's not surprising that I'm slow in this area because I only figured out the ease of T9 (why is it called that anyway?) 2 years ago and was probably the last of my friends to get a cell phone in 2003.
LMN SO & PO
If you can't figure that out then you must be trippin'. J/K but keep it on the DL, K? I wouldn't want to mislead anyone. This is probably another reason why I never got into the whole chat room things years ago because it involves waaaay too many of those words. I wouldn't be able to keep up.
I still prefer written word to any other form of communication. If I didn't have kids, I'd probably write more letters. I love the feel of the pen on the paper and the mystery of committing to the word your hand writes. There's sheer honesty in this because even if you cross it out, people know you changed your mind. Were you distracted when you wrote it? Did it sound different than you expected? Was it a simple typo?
When I used to teach, I found the overuse of the internet was doing a major disservice to our youth. Some students would literally not know it was inappropriate to use those abbreviations in a formal college essay.
All of this to say I still feel behind the times and often like an ignoramus when it comes to capital letters typed out to mean something other than what you're currently viewing. Thank God I have a REALLY internet savvy husband.
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