Grammar Geek  +  335606 Sun, 04 Mar 07 05:05 PM For those who use chat rooms, what are the things that just make you nuts? Perhpas beause our affiliated chat room is for people learning English, I'm more sensitive to how things are abbreviated (and how it must be hard for learners to understand) . I think my #1 is when a person enters the room with "yo dawg wazzup???" Even without the dawg "yo wassup" is pretty bad. (And no, it's not only the Americans who do it!) What about you? Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,683 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random! Learning English

	Pucca  +  335610 Sun, 04 Mar 07 05:13 PM I hate "asl", when they ask me, I always try to ignore them or I directly say.."I don't understand you" Pucca Joined on Sun, Aug 27 2006 Spain Senior Member 2,972

	Francesca  +  335632 Sun, 04 Mar 07 05:55 PM I agree with Pucca on 'asl', anyway I hate all the acronyms in general. I don't like also abbreviations like: y? r u there? and so on! I can only accept lol By the way, what's that 'dawg'? I can't find any meaning for it Francesca Joined on Tue, Oct 11 2005 Contributing Member 1,786 Abbreviations

	Kooyeen  +  335633 Sun, 04 Mar 07 06:02 PM Hey there, good question... Well, I don't like the way "you" and "are" are abbreviated (you --> u, are --> r) and the personal pronoun "I" when it's not capitalized (I've --> i've), they look ugly, they look worse than the standard versions, and you are not going to save much time typing that way. It bothers me when people don't punctuate their sentences (Ex: my name is jenny if you want to chat just tell me hey Mike89 wassup), again bad style, looks ugly. What I use a lot are words like "lol, rotfl, rotflmao", those act like they are emoticons. Kooyeen Joined on Thu, Dec 22 2005 Italy Senior Member 4,981 Parental Advisory / Explicit Posts Nouns, Pronouns

	Cool Breeze  +  335636 Sun, 04 Mar 07 06:17 PM I don't use chat rooms. As a rule, if I see something that makes it difficult for me to understand a text, I don't read it. It's not meant for me. CB Cool Breeze Joined on Fri, Apr 7 2006 Senior Member 3,979 "I hope you'll all live to be 150 years old - and the last voice you hear is mine!" Frank Sinatra on stage in Oslo, Norway, 28 September 1991

	Westlake  +  335779 Mon, 05 Mar 07 04:38 AM  Francesca wrote: I agree with Pucca on 'asl', anyway I hate all the acronyms in general. I don't like also abbreviations like: y? r u there? and so on! I can only accept lol By the way, what's that 'dawg'? I can't find any meaning for it Hey Francesca,      'dawg' is a internet slang and it means 'friend' Westlake Joined on Fri, Jan 26 2007 Singapore Junior Member 95 I like making friends! Abbreviations

	Grammar Geek  +  335790 Mon, 05 Mar 07 05:19 AM Dawg is unfortunately used in real life too. I guess it's replaced "dude" and for that I am grateful, but somehow it just seems wrong for men in their forties in business suits greeting each other with "Hey dawg" and doing that closed fist, tap-knuckles thing. I guess I've become a curmudgeon. Can I change my name here to "Curmudgeon"? My second-most-hated thing is "Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Why is it necessary to use so many exclamation marks? (See, I'm a curmudgeon!) Pucca, I don't like asl either, but not because it's chat slang. I just don't know why my age, sex or location should matter. I don't plan on dating any of these people, so can't we just talk like people? Grammar Geek Exclamation Marks

	nona the brit  +  335848 Mon, 05 Mar 07 09:47 AM I read an article yesterday that mentioned a racehorse called 'Pot8os' that won many major races in 1865...so  it looks like people have been doing this for a long time! nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all. Articles

	Francesca  +  335885 Mon, 05 Mar 07 11:28 AM  Westlake wrote: Hey Francesca,  'dawg' is a internet slang and it means 'friend' Thanks  Grammar Geek wrote: My second-most-hated thing is "Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Why is it necessary to use so many exclamation marks? (See, I'm a curmudgeon!) I just hate too many exclamation marks too! If you want to emphasize something I guess 3 '!' are more than enough...Can I be Curmudgeon II ? Francesca Grammar, Exclamation Marks