BreakPoint
A plea for full words
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I also noticed that this often comes from people who have ESL (acronyms, yeah! 
). As such, I often tend to relatively forgive it, but I agree that it generally has no place here and that people should make the effort to respect their audience and at least try to write properly.
). As such, I often tend to relatively forgive it, but I agree that it generally has no place here and that people should make the effort to respect their audience and at least try to write properly.
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smercurio, I'm with you too. mainly because for a non native speaking, these acronyms are LESS legible than plain english, even if they're legible.
Yes, it saves keyboard hits, but my brain (which has of course poor resources...) has to add a layer to translate: slang --> english --> italian. So please, write it all down
graziano
smercurio, I'm with you too. mainly because for a non native speaking, these acronyms are LESS legible than plain english, even if they're legible.
Yes, it saves keyboard hits, but my brain (which has of course poor resources...) has to add a layer to translate: slang --> english --> italian. So please, write it all down
graziano
We should differentiate between using acronyms which are relatively standard (like BTW, OTOH, FWIW, etc.) and writing things like "4, i, u, plz", etc.
The first one can be annoying, but is standard and can be solved with a simple Google search and if you happen to have a program like Babylon I'm sure there are dictionaries for this.
The second one is just annoying. It doesn't make the posts any harder to read in itself, but it's appropriate in a chat, not in a forum like this.
FWIW, I'll try to use less acronyms. 
My point was that if you don't know you can simply do a Google search. I had to do this myself more than once (although I often find it more fun to figure out the meaning of the acronym on my own
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the other two i have no idea.......
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