I'm not the one portraying myself to be an expert in English, you are and as long as you speak in abbreviations, you are no different than the people you are putting down.
Hey, Dale Reed, what about "IIRC" and "FWIW"? Mean anything to you? I know how you like people who speak in abbreviations.
I am a self taught typist, it doesn't come easy for me as I don't even have all my fingers, I make mistakes but I'm not too damn'd lazy to spell out words instead of trying to type cool teenagerese.
CUL8er.
I learned IIRC and FWIW ON FR! How long have you been here, Graybeard? You cannot sit here and tell me that you’ve NEVER seen these acronyms, especially on Free Republic. They’re regularly used acronyms along with IM(H)O, TTIUWP, FUBAR, FUBO, YITBOS, etc.
It’s not a generational thing, as you surmise, it’s a net-speak thing. We were talking about structured composition in a classroom/standardized test environment. Do you not see the difference?
I’m not an expert in English by any stretch. I’ve committed 7 years of my post-secondary educational life to studying and perfecting my understanding and use of the English language. I know many who are much better grammarians and linguists. Why are you specifically keyed on two acronyms I used in my post?
I’m a self-taught typist as well. I taught myself to type 18 years ago at the age of 14, and I’ve been doing it ever since. Never sat in a typing class in high school or college. My apologies if you took offense to anything in my post, but I feel you’re barking into the wind.