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Old 2007 June 7th, 09:42 PM   #8 (permalink)
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A perspective from a native speaker

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Originally Posted by samir_fpgee
Are we here to discuss about grammetical matter? Does it matter if we use any abbreviation?
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samir,

This Announcement by Erin may clarify things.

Concern has been expressed for some time about the growing use of Textese here. Examples include not using capitals at the start of sentences or for I, missing out punctuation and using abbreviations such as thx, thy, bovine mastication, dunno and so on.

Obviously there are occasions when people make mistakes, and not everyone here has perfect English, but there is a feeling that forums devoted to improving English should be used by people who at least try to post in good English. Doing so not only helps people improve their English it also helps others who wish to improve their English and who may be confused by Textese.

Also obviously some posts are brief notes, others may not easily conform to well written English styles. Some abbreviations are in common usage in normal 'correct' English or may be common here (such as PM).

wot we rlly wanna dos stp psts lik (insert demonstrative pronoun here) so pls dont do (insert demonstrative pronoun here) wil u thnx

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