Offtopic: AMA (Was: Interview at Lang.NEXT)

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Sat Jun 7 02:29:49 PDT 2014


On 2014-06-07 06:21, Craig Dillabaugh wrote:

> Its all the fault of people texting on their cell phones and the like!
> Too much work to write proper English words.  Amirite?

I'm not so sure about that. English is full of shortenings which is 
proper English: do not -> don't, you are -> you're. Then, at least in 
the USA, abbreviations are common as well. CIA, NYPD and so on. Even the 
name of the country is an abbreviation :)

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/Jacob Carlborg


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