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Alexandria Marrow's avatar

I feel the same way about typos in communications 😅 of course a typo here and there is unavoidable at times, but consistent typos demonstrate low effort “IMO” lol.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Same here 😄

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Wendy Scott's avatar

I write out full words in texts though tbh I did put a 'tbh' in a comment earlier today. Even then it was because I'm in a writing group with the person who wrote the article, and I know them.

Reading the abbreviated version of the text messages in your example also made my brain hurt.

Maybe the young people find it easier? My young adult kids all use the abbreviations, to them it's normal.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

How old are your kids, Wendy? ☺️

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Wendy Scott's avatar

Young adults, early 20s.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

You should definitely send this one to them.

I bet they’d reply “Thx mom!” 😄

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Wendy Scott's avatar

Or "OMG, WTF??" - They like using a lot of question marks and exclamation marks too!! LOL!!!

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

My brain hurt as well.

I, too, sometimes use abbreviations, when texting with close friends or colleagues.

But out of 100 occasions I could abbreviate, I’d say I do it 5 times max.

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Nick Makris's avatar

LOL IMO IDK TTYL Giacomo

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

WTF, Nick!

:D

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Nick Makris's avatar

Haha

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Levi and Krista's avatar

I try my best to be very grammatically correct, but sometimes I'll abbreviate if I'm truly in a rushed situation... or if the person I'm talking with talks that way -- almost as a way to relate. (typically when I'm interacting with my high school athletes haha)

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