documentation, because by the end of the day on December 20, 2011, the blog was removed, apparently by the website administrator, and all that can be found now at this website address is a not In general, user-generated content websites “page found” notice. are notoriously unreliable with regards to information they convey, including the any quality of the English language they use. Because there is so much potential to exchange ideas on user-generated content sites, users feel compelled to speed up the process by shifting the written language into abbreviated code that uses fewer characters. The conventions of Standard English, as properly written, are time-consuming and difficult to produce quickly by typing, especially when two or more people are engaging in active conversation in chat rooms, instant messaging, and more recently—cell phone text messaging. While using user-generated content Internet sites and cell phone text messaging, apparently, the first thing to go is the shift key; messages are often typed only in small case, including the personal pronoun Words such as and have I. be, see, oh, are, you, why been replaced with phonetically equivalent single letters and Likewise, the b, c, o, r, u, y. words and become and These single syllables are combined to create to, for, ate 2, 4, 8. abbreviations for multi-syllable words or phrases—before becomes and b4 oh, I see becomes Even when words are spelled out, they are frequently oic. intentionally, sometimes not. Punctuation plus grammar and usage conventions are virtually ignored. There is a long list of abbreviations of short phrases like (rolling on floor laughing my ass off) and (parent looking over roflmao plos This form of written language was not deliberately shoulder) (“Urban”). “abbreviated”
documentation, because by the end of the day on December 20, 2011, the blog was removed, apparently by the website administrator, and all that can be found now at this website address is a “page not found” notice. In general, user-generated content websites are notoriously unreliable with regards to any information they convey, including the quality of the English language they use. Because there is so much potential to exchange ideas on user-generated content sites, users feel compelled to speed up the process by shifting the written language into abbreviated code that uses fewer characters. The conventions of Standard English, as properly written, are time-consuming and difficult to produce quickly by typing, especially when two or more people are engaging in active conversation in chat rooms, instant messaging, and more recently—cell phone text messaging. While using user-generated content Internet sites and cell phone text messaging, apparently, the first thing to go is the shift key; messages are often typed only in small case, including the personal pronoun I. Words such as be, see, oh, are, you, and why have been replaced with phonetically equivalent single letters b, c, o, r, u, and y. Likewise, the words to, for, and ate become 2, 4, and 8. These single syllables are combined to create abbreviations for multi-syllable words or phrases—before becomes b4 and oh, I see becomes oic. Even when words are spelled out, they are frequently intentionally, sometimes not. Punctuation plus grammar and usage conventions are virtually ignored. There is a long list of abbreviations of short phrases like roflmao (rolling on floor laughing my ass off) and plos (parent looking over shoulder) (“Urban”). This “abbreviated” form of written language was not deliberately