Unfortunately I cant claim that I am an authority in English language and I always chose right words to express my thoughts. My English vocabulary is very limited but I always try, not to make this scarce resource useless. I understand, its legitimate to shorten the words while chatting over IM or sms but I cant understand the point in making the words short if their is no significant saving of real estate or time. If you can avoid at least two letters without making the reader over stressed then its justified eg. using bcoz in place of because, 2moro in place of tomorrow, u in place of you, r in place of are, GN in place of Good night etc. can be thought of, as a requirement to be quick without losing meaning but I don't understand usage of hw in place of how, mak in place of make, vry in place of very, bein in place of being, tym in place of time, etc. This type of distortion of words doesnt make sense to me. They neither effectively save the real estate nor they mak(oops!) make you fast in typing. The stress on the mind of unintelligent readers like me is unimaginable and I have seen totally incomprehensible sentences(may be writer thought I am a bit more intelligent than what actually I am). In some cases words are made longer without any useful purpose, to make it more fashionable. One example is "my" replaced with "mah". I will not tell you more examples like this otherwise someone may guess that i am talking exactly about her style :D I know you all are very well aware of this useless, distorted word list so there is no point in taking unwanted risk. Most important of all I am a nice guy so I don't want to demean anyone :D
There are few words or phrases which I don't like personally. May be, they are useful for you but I find them very boring. One such word is hmm or hmmm or hmmmm or....you can add any number of m after h. The problem with the hmm is that it doesn't say anything. It neither says yes nor No. It doesn't convey that reader is confused or in what sort of mind he/she is. but this is my personal taste and you may have liking for this word. A phrase which doesnt look nice to me even though there is nothing wrong with it is use of "I know". Suppose I am giving you some information without knowing that you are aware of this, then saying "I know" sounds ........hmmm, it doesn't sound cool :D Instead of saying "I know" responding "Yes, I know" or "Yes, I am aware of this" or only "yes" in many cases sounds more cool( or cuil !)
Feminists please forgive me and dont waste your time in suing me. Its my observation that female homo sapiens have more tendency to use these useless, distorted, boring words. Usually males learn the usage of these words from their female friends :) I am open to criticism and you can protest by posting your comments.
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Bein a gud frnd of Arun, I know he knows ample bout style ;).If u can decipher a meaning out of an abbrv. word,its no harm to use it.If u can't make out "Being" from "bein" or "very" from "vry", it means u lack intellect or u haven't been across dese wrds vry often.
I wud lik 2 give sum info to mah dr frnd :- Dere has been a rsrch, dat mite sound even more mind-boggling to dis frnd of mine.Just try reading this -
"fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be
in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed
it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed
ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and
I
awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!"
NOW, WHAT DO U SAY?AT LEAST WE WERE NOT DISTURBING THE ORDER OF WORDS BY MAKING PHRASES!
@sunny
abe blog pe pahla comment aur meri wat laga diya :( You know very well about my intellect and its really tough for persons having low intellect to decipher these cryptic spellings. I never claimed that my english is good :D The post was meant to tell the more intelligent persons like you to take care of lesser intelligent persons like me [:(]
Its is my moral duty yaar ...ab mai ni lagaunga to kaun lagaega teri waat! ;).
Nd don't lose hope yaar, still dere is scope.Maine doctors se tere liya baat ki, wo bole iska cure hai.
GET WELL SOON Maaamu :D!
hehehe, abhi aya mazaa, comment padhne ka.
koi achha doctor milte hi inform karna mujhe.
Just for fun - Got to remember a line from lage raho ..
"Apun ek aisa doctor ko janta hai ..south africa me padhai kiyela hai ...BAPUU"
That was a master-piece!!analysing a chat conversation.I did lots of chat with gals!!they really use lots of short abbreviations.I am reluctant to shortforms...and avoid it at its best.
One of my friends vinod pillai and me used to exchange conversation that we used to do with gals on g-talk by simply forwarding the saved chats .
Praising female has now become my habit these days.....I will praise them here too.
Gals are XX ...pretty symmetrical hence beautiful...but no progress.
Boys are XY not beautuful ...unorganised..no symmetry ...but progressive...because they moved from x to y.
i wont say that u are suffering from dyslexia because u suffer a lot while understanding rsrch as research.
when gal write mah' instead of my ...she is stylish.
female newsreaders have very stylish accent..where a male newsreader will be boring enough in his baritone.
But when it comes to listening a sad news like that of flood, male newsreader holds it better.
when we read articles in a newspaper we like male readers(my point of view)...and not much of a female writer!!
females normally chat very casually
...It's the male who makes the conversation interesting in most of the times.
Because females are casual they use lots of shotform not caring abt the reader if he is understanding anything or not!!
@sunny.
i seriously need a docor man :) If you are sure that this south african doctor [:P] is good then i dont have any issues consulting him [:D]
@saras
gr8! I desperately needed support to fight with sunny [:D] Its good to know that someone agrees with me. May be, both of us can go together to meet the South African doctor [:D]
abt shortcuts - I am a very lazy fellowm and use a sensible chat client that can expand the shortcuts and make everyone's life simple :)
@inf.0
here comes the advice from real techie guy. Currently he is the most helpful techie accessible to me. Girls, listen to his advice and be smart. BTW, he is still single [:D]
@all
unfortunately inf.0 is too busy with other things so he doesnt find time to comment on blogs. he doesnt comment even on Larry page's blog so i am not discouraged [:D] As I sit next to him so its not a peoblem for me to get his advice.
hmmm... But hmm is such a nice way... Don't you think so?? It means that you would rather be somewhere else.. Actually, it says quite a lot without saying anything at all... One can say that its IM's equivalent of a yawn..
Some more words which really piss me off :
1. Like - Eg .. I was like very tired and started like talking rubbish and he became like mad
2. Actually -- Lately. this word has been vying for the most overused word of the year award. Actually, its quite nonsensical and unsettling to hear actually in every other sentence.
@anurag
Hmmm...I agree, now hmm is a very popular word and I think its better for me to start using this word :)
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