A friendly reminder

Oh... oops, sorry, I know, I'm doing that sometimes ("pix" for example or "LOL")

I'll try to be better from now on! :)

Kirsten

Kirsten, I'm not sure, but I don't think Karen would include"pics", as I believe everyone know what that means. :D

Still, there are a few abbrevations I don't know, but mostly I can understand the meaning anyway - or guess the meaning. :)

However, it's always a good idea to make an effort, concerning spelling. The REAL world demand it!

When I first joined, I couldn't understand much of what Cinder & Smoke wrote, but I do now, and I think it's very entertaining! :D

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Originally posted by Randi
When I first joined, I couldn't understand much of what Cinder & Smoke wrote, but I do now, and I think it's very entertaining! :D

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I actually find it VERY difficult to read, even after all the time I've been here, and often skip it because of that :o :o :o

I agree with Karen that the important thing is you TRY your hardest to use proper spelling/grammar/etc. Of course there will be mistakes, but if you try, I don't think anyone can complain.

I think it is only common courtesy that you write legibly on a public forum. Chat programs like AIM and ICQ are a different story though! :D

When in doubt about a word, I always refer to www.dictionary.com !

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Originally posted by Nomilynn
I actually find it VERY difficult to read, even after all the time I've been here, and often skip it because of that :o :o :o

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Aw Nomilynn, you're missing a lot of fun.:D Cinder & Smoke
write phonetically & actually I find it very easy to read. I can
really imagine them talking that way.:D

I fine the way to read Phred's post is OUT LOUD! Now, if you are doing this at work, your co-workers may find you a bit odd....but it helps!

We need MORE posts from Cinder & Smoke - and also pics of BOOTS!! ..... did you know, they've got a digital camera now! (hint-hint)

And we do forgive dogs and cats their creative spelling - after all, that's not something they cover in puppy kindergarten!

Okay, birds and bunnies and other critters as well - as long as their humans are willing to translate if necessary!

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Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
I fine the way to read Phred's post is OUT LOUD! Now, if you are doing this at work, your co-workers may find you a bit odd....but it helps!

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:D I love Cinder and Smoke's prayers the most. They always make me cry.

I love Cinder and Smoke's posts.:D I can understand them fairly well actually. I can probably read Big Birfday Bash faster than Big Birthday Bash.;)

I agree with Randi-- we need more pics!!

Yeah, but when I heard myself sing "Happy Birfday to you, Happy Birfday to you" to a good friend.........everyone asked me when I had the dental work done.

Good idea! It brought back memories of my first "on line" experience in an live forum and I kept seeing that ROTFLMAO...and I finally asked who that "Ralf Mayo" was--I think I was too embarrassed to go back there again!

I have also grown weary of corporate world's "acronym crazy" attitude. I worked one place where they actually had an online dictionary of all their acronym terms, they had so many of them.

Here's an idea, use the real words...you could have saved a lot of time and money building that web site!

Oh Thanks Karen! Nice Friendly Reminder. I find abbreviated posts so difficult to read, so I usually give up.
Course the 'fur kids' manage so well - considering their thinking in a 'foreign' language!:eek: I never have any problems reading 'pet speak' -especially Cinder, Smoke and Boot!! I adore 'their' postings and prayers (yes Micki I always read them with a tissue too!). SO - they have a camera now do they Randi? Errrrrr.........Phred? You there?
Reading through the lists of internet slang - I'm sure some of the 'shorthand' takes longer to type than the actual words!
Must own up to being a LOL - ROTFL - ROFLMAO - user, they still make me giggle. OH yes, and 'pic' or 'photo' - that's just me being very lazy!
So I'm off now to write out one hundered times -'Must not abbreviate picture or photograph to pic or photo' :D :D

Lynne

Me-eow, Pics and Pictures are basically English words. How about using photos and/or fotos, words used in many languages such as English, French, Dutch, German, etc.

Photos or fotos, short for photographs, are just as good as pictures, in my humble opinion. In fact, call them what you will, we want more! ;)

Thank you all for your forebearance in these matters!

When I first came on here I used to use internet slang and type u and c, only because I was new to the internet, and I thought this is what everyone did, I was soon corrected, and I have respected that, and use the correct words, I think I was forgiven lol oops (laugh out loud).

I have no problem with accepting bad spellers, abbreviations, slang etc, I can usually dechiper it no problem, but I accept the wishes of the majority and PT Moderators and abide by it.

I know its not hard to type the whole word out, but I do suffer from aching arms and hands very often, and it helped to make my threads shorter, however if Truffles can do it so can I .:)

P.S you will have to excuse me a little ,after all I am a kiwi, and we have that attitude SHE'LL BE RIGHT MATE' bred in us. lol.

I´m sorry for sooooo stupid question, but can somebody say me, what means RIP?

There is no such thing as a stupid question...........I didn't know what a lot of the abbreviations meant either.

RIP means Rest In Peace.

Thanx Gini, now I´ll know what means RIP...

Right

I don't like slang either but I will try not to use pic anymore I'm a bad speller to. Thanks for bringing this up. Hope everyone has a nice Sunday:) Pictchuer?:)










Thanks Willie.:)

I'm new to this site and actually came across it by accident. I was happy to have a place to talk about my dogs and pets with. But I have to say, I was disappointed by all the responses to not abbreviating or using run-ons, because as some people have stated: IT IS SO ANNOYING. I like to think I treat others as I would like to be treated and maybe I am sensitive but, I found that statement somewhat hurtful. I understand the abbreviating., as people do not always understand what one is saying but, run-ons, come on. I'm definitely not perfect and never will be. I guess I just thought this was a place to talk about our pets, not get critizied on our english. I'm not trying to over-step my boundaries here....I didn't create this website. I'm just stating how I feel.:(

The thread is titled "A Friendly reminder." It is not meant to make anyone feel bad. As long as you try, no one will criticize. We don't care about technical run-ons, so much as run-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-so-long-you-wonder if-you'll-ever-get-to-breathes!

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Originally posted by teenster3
I understand the abbreviating., as people do not always understand what one is saying but, run-ons, come on.

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I speak English, understand abbreviations perfectly well, and I write stories, and I STILL can't understand a single thing when people use run-on sentences. I don't understand why you take offense, as I've read some of your posts and haven't seen anything hard to understand at all. :confused:

I'm just saying that when people say something like: "I met this dog today it was so cute I pet him and he was such a good boy and I wanted to take him home but my mom wouldn't let me, she's so mean I don't understand why I couldn't get this dog he was the nicest thing ever and I just wanted him so bad and all I ever do is beg for a dog but I'm just not allowed to get one and it sucks so bad Gosh I can't stand it I wish I could get another dog like that one he was so perfect" etc, etc.

I just wrote that myself, read it over, and I have NO CLUE what I just wrote down. :o I need punctuation and I need actual sentence structure or it's so confusing it literally gives me a headache. Some people here have learning disablities and just can't comprehend what a sentence says when it has no structure.

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Originally posted by Karen
We don't care about technical run-ons, so much as run-on-and-on-and-on-and-on-and-so-long-you-wonder if-you'll-ever-get-to-breathes!

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I agree; Everyone uses a run-on sentence every now and then, but when it gets to the point where your entire paragraph is just one sentence, it's just very difficult to understand. :)

Ok....so I read that you don't like run-ons and I wrote what I thought about that. I'm just saying that sometimes I do it and I don't mean to OFFEND ANYBODY it's just that I'm not great with puncuation....that's all. I want to be able to talk to people without being judged and I think that's a fair statement to make.

Any easy way to know where to put punctuation is is by reading it aloud. When you stop to take a breath, a comma or period should be used! (More often if you speak at auctioneer speed, but you know what I mean.)

That is really nice to know. Where I live we speak German, most of my Internet contacts are in English, and my mother tongue is Portuguese... What a salad!

And to complete, I find my spell mistakes only when they are posted (in all three languages).

Teenster, don't feel bad, I have landed myself in lots of hot water, as my opinion differs from almost everyone else here, I really don't care if anyone cannot spell, or does not use the correct puncuation etc etc, I am intelligent enough to decipher most of it anyhow, it simply does not bother me.

However as most of the people on PT object, I do my best to make my posts legible as possible,and I think that is all that is really being asked of us, and I respect the opinions of the majority here.

I Come here to have fun, read lovely stories, make friends, pure and simple , nothing else, I am just easy-going when it comes to this kind of stuff, maybe it is just the kiwi laid back lifestyle that makes me this way, who knows, but it does not bother me at all.:) but it does others, so a little effort is required, and appreciated by all.;)

Ah. I use a lot of abbreviations myself. However, I'm quite use to it and really don't notice myself doing it all the time. I'm also not the best spelling in the world lol XD I suppose if I re-read most of my posts I could fix mistakes, but I'm lazy :X I suppose I don't use A LOT of abbreviations, but I use ppl for people and pic of picture..(to me, it's when people talk like this : "y r u doin dat" or something along those lines, that annoys me.)

Yes that is a good idea ... I try not to use slang because people all over the world and people I don't know is going to see what I wrote. And I dont want them to think I am a bad speller! Thanks for the reminder!!!!:D

I try , and if I cant , its because , of my poor eye sight!

maybe we should put up an on-line dictionary for all of the abbreviations (why IS that such a long word?!?:D :p ;) )
lol- laugh out loud ect. :p :D

Great idea...it drives me crazy when people abbreviate and use stuff like lol, y, u, etc. Thanks for bringing it up. :)

Buddy Blaze I think you will find some abbreviations such as LOL are perfectly acceptable on PT, and rightly so, it is internet language, so why should it not be used, besides for someone like me typing really hurts my hands after a while , so abbreviations are very handy at times, just MO , I don't see why it bothers you so much., I think as long as someone's thread is eligible,that is the main thing.

1,945 letters are NOT to be comment-'ed' on this since this thread is *required*. =| abbreviations are out, my annoyance too.

you people, here's my little lovely experience on recent spelling.
abbr.... *looking up at www.yourdictionary.com* *typing out a word* *...ok! abbreviations! abbreviations!* *goes back to PT window* *aghh what was it again? goes back..* *opening it again or you have SO slow computer* *please help.. ABBREVIATIONS or I get cricitized!* *typing out 'abbreviations.. are out..'* *clicked "Submit Reply"* *sorry, you have been logged out* *lost the WHOLE thing* *retype* *nervously remembered "abbreviations" THIS time* *life is not >so< fair*.....................................

Hi.
I totally agree too!
Although I can always ready it and it doesn't ALWAYS bother me, I still think that that is a VERY good idea!:)

I know I do not use correct grammar all the time nor was I ever in a spelling bee. So what I try to do before submitting a post... is copy and paste it into word or something and spell check it because I don't want people to get mad at me for spelling anything wrong. :o

Seeing how we are talking about abreviations, What does btw mean?? I was just curiouse because I see it all the time on pt!:p

*I think* it means

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