| | | Find the Knowledge You Need with These Textbooks!! | myLot Discussions| Using complete WORDS instead of TXT SPK | | I write for a living. I am what some people describe as a "Writer for Hire." Other people call that a Technical Writer-- although I hardly fit the conventional image of technical writers, in that there's seldom anything "technical" about what I write. I did start in the field writing software manuals and online help systems, but most of what I do these days ranges from advertising copy, to sales letters, to web content, to newsletters, to metaphysics-- pretty much "soup to nuts."Many of my "gigs" take place online, through "backdoors" to web sites and company INTRAnets. Whenever I start something new, there are inevitably a slew of instructions on how the writing should come out. Today, I came across the following "instruction:"Dnt use abbrvs b/c thr 2 diff 4 ppl 2 read.It reminded me (on some level) of a large number of discussions and comments on myLot. Maybe I am just OLD, but I DO find so-called "txt msg spk" to be really hard to read. Come on, folks-- this is a WEB SITE, not your cell phone! Am I the only one who feels annoyed by discussions and replies that don't use complete words and sentences? And I'm not talking about non-native English speakers (for whom... | |
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