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4COL, even tho I'm always AATK, I still need 404 when it comes to these cute little internet acronyms! IWBNI there existed some kind of "www lexicon" to help a "middle-aged computer geek wannabe" get in the loop here. Perhaps it's a way to KPC. I give a ^5 to anyone who can keep up with IM crowd cause I certainly can't.
Here's my 02 - when talking to someone whose high school graduation song was "We May Never Pass This Way Again" by Seals & Crofts, add a few letters to the mix or, at the very least, be a little more patient with this OM.
I have to admit, that while I understand the little "smileys and emoticons" a little better, I find them obnoxious. Every time I try and insert one in my emails, I feel like a teenage girl putting a little smiley face in her circled "i." That said - I still occasionally find them amusing and the ever-growing list is equally impressive. Here are a few of my favorites:
I guess I sound a lot like my grandfather as he bemoaned that people weren't scribing notes with quill and ink anymore back in the '30's or my mother in the 90's as she worried about the demise of current English grammar in her classroom. Bottom line - as long as we're communicating, emoticons, IM acronyms, or not - it's a good thing!
TFLMS #:-)
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Karl P.Saturday, October 4th 2008 1:44AM
Awesome. So, where did you get the emoticons. And as a middle-aged computer geek, I can't keep up at all, and have just about given up. I get TMs from my kids, and it's beginning to _drive_ me nuts. Of course anyone who knows me might say, "But it's a very short _drive_."
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