SurfiOnline

..on the Internet.

Every so often, someone talks to me in their own form of abbreviated internet language. This annoys me because you have to sit down and try and figure out what every second word is, then you can at least obtain half a sentence and maybe it is understandable. If you can’t then you have to go back through and read it all, paying close attention. Hopefully after this long and time consuming process you have something that makes sense. But the majority of the time you don’t.

I can’t stand people who abbreviate words excessively on the internet, and what they don’t realise is that sometime is not even an abbreviation, the word is the same length except they change a few letters around, or they could be too lazy to type one more letter to form a ‘real’ word in the English language. Works like “sik”, “guyz”, “newaiz”, “u”, “r”, “nite”. Read more for the abbreviations which are becoming common and annoy me the most!

I can understand this in SMS Messages on a mobile phone because you are limited to a certain amount of characters per message, but on the internet, its not like you are really limited, or you pay by the character or message you send.

It’s not just the abbreviations either. It’s also the aLtErNaTe CaPiTaLiSaTiOn, as well as the all-caps text, such as “OI! MAN! MAN!” That is just plain outright annoying and hard to read. If you want me to read your message and pay any attention, and even respond to it quicker, you could type it properly? Oh, then we also have the people who constantly hassle you, for example, they will say “Hey” once, then when you respond they will say “Hey” four more times, then there is the other groups who will just constantly send you messages even if you don’t reply. For example:
[quote]User: Hey
User: Hi
User: Are you there?[/quote]
If i was there, perhaps i would respond to you?

I can understand things like “bbl”, “brb”, “cya”, because I too use them and they are quickly becoming a ’standardised’ way of talking on the internet. But these other abbreviations, people just make them up as they please.

So please! If you are going to talk to me, can you try and talk in English, that we can both understand?

Newaiz! I guess I will be c’in u around!

Common and annoying abbreviations include:

• u = you
• r = are
• y = why
• newaiz = anyways
• guyz = guys (and other words with a z on the end)
• evry1 = everyone
• 2dai = today
• 2morow = tomorrow
• nite = nite

I’m sure there are loads more too, these are all that my brain is capable of picking up right now though..