A few days back, I was randomly browsing through a few scrapbooks on orkut. In one of the scrapbooks, I found this one odd scrap which said ‘ m 5n ova here’. When I read this scrap, I was like... Wahh! What a nice sentence?? (I am just trying to be sarcastic here)
There is nothing wrong in using short form of a word. But... Why use it unnecessarily? It is not actually that hard to type in an extra letter to make your sentence more readable and complete.
Sometimes the whole word is shortened (Abt -about), or one letter of a word is substituted with another letter to make it sound COOL and sometimes a ‘z’ is included at the end of the word to give the word a special effect!
Here are a few examples of unnecessary usage of short form of a word:
1. Ova – Full form is Over (Not a nice one to use..Yeew!)
2. H r u?- How are you? (Huhhh!! Too short to handle)
3. Iz – Is (just write an s instead of a Z!!)
4. Ma- My( trying to sound cool)
5. Kewl- Cool (Too hard to twist the tongue to pronounce KEWL ;)
6. Ta- To (!!)
7. Sumthinz- something is
There is nothing wrong in using short form of a word. But... Why use it unnecessarily? It is not actually that hard to type in an extra letter to make your sentence more readable and complete.
Sometimes the whole word is shortened (Abt -about), or one letter of a word is substituted with another letter to make it sound COOL and sometimes a ‘z’ is included at the end of the word to give the word a special effect!
Here are a few examples of unnecessary usage of short form of a word:
1. Ova – Full form is Over (Not a nice one to use..Yeew!)
2. H r u?- How are you? (Huhhh!! Too short to handle)
3. Iz – Is (just write an s instead of a Z!!)
4. Ma- My( trying to sound cool)
5. Kewl- Cool (Too hard to twist the tongue to pronounce KEWL ;)
6. Ta- To (!!)
7. Sumthinz- something is
Fl frms r brng. Us shrt frms 2 mk lyf intrstng :)
ReplyDeleteGood to see you blogging, Mads. Way to go! I stopped blogging long back. I think I should restart my blog sometime.
Hey!! thanks for the comment! I actually took 2 to 4 seconds to understand the first sentence! :)
ReplyDeletey use fl frms whn shrt frms itslf r enuf 2 rite smthin... ;)
ReplyDeleteIf shortforms save time (like HRU for How Are You?), i dont hav a problem..but using 'ma' for 'my' and 'kewl' for 'cool' really pisses me off! Its like fulltoo showing off that they are 'kewl' people!! grr!!
ReplyDeletekeep posting and keep smiling!!
I second that Anjan... Short forms are better if it saves time...
ReplyDeleteAnyways, Madhura.... good post... Keep blogging. Enjoy...
I so agree with you! I find it the most idiotic that words like tyme and kewl...they aren't even being shortened!(that would at least be a reason..right?) What's the point of changing them randomly?
ReplyDeletehmm.. you know.. actually. .this short hand.. or "whatever you call it" style of texting and scrapping is a real pain. Plain and simple english could do the trick.. but then we people have this habit of over using.. or should i say .. abusing the resources we have..
ReplyDeleteHeyyyy Rahul.... Thanks for your comments kano!!! :)
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