Too much abbreviated words in discussions on Mylot

There is a good way to discourage people using cellphone messaging "Txtspk" and unnecessary abbreviations on Mylot-and that is,not to respond to their discussions! For the most part,I'll write in plain English,but there are times when I will use an abbreviation..for example,I'd sometimes use "OTOH" or "IMO" (On The Other Hand,and In My Opinion!) Admittedly,I'd probably get paid better if I was more verbose in my discussions,but at the same time,I don't want to bore people with long winding discussions,either..

Hi tkonlinevn, I agree with you. Though I may be a little guilty too. I sometimes used abbreviated words like IMO for In my opinion, etc. I don't normally use abbreviated. Like the previous responder mentioned, some people are used to texting. So even when they type, everything is 'Texting Language'. I noticed that some abbreviated words used are another word having completely different meaning!

I agree with you, English is hard enough to understand without people doing what I call "text speech". I do not know all the abbreviations and English is my mother tongue. What many MyLotters seem to not understand is that the quality of your discussion affects your earning and how people respond to it. If a topic is not important enough to be thoroughly spelled out then it is probably not a great discussion any way. I tend to not respond to discussions that are so chopped up. It makes me feel impatient to even read them.

Hey tkonlinevn, Humming.. I never really come across abbreviated words a lot sort of rare for me if not maybe because english is my first language I just can understand it right away. You are right if everyone just types in traditional English then it would make it a little esker for the people that are learning English and have English as a second language. I AGREE Got my Vote Me: I don't think I ever really type in abbreviated words I try my best to keep it traditional English since some people text a lot they can't help themselves but to abbreviate words to a simple Lessing typing way. Remember with testing you have a box with a limit of 160 words on most phones some phones allow you to have pages but, that's off subject. I think that's just the main reason why. By the way your English is excellent

Hi tk, You're right, abbreviations should not be used liberally here. I, myself is guilty of that when I type HDD instead of "hard disk drive," MS-OS instead of Microsoft operating system," apps instead of "applications," UV when I mean "ultraviolet" and many others I can no longer remember. I feel I'm ignoring the suggestion "Please be as descriptive as possible." Sorry for the inconvenience.

I stopped abbreviating words years ago, the only two words I abbreviate are lol and lmao. Other then that I stopped, it's stupid to be honest with people that still do it. People try making there own words a lot by abbreviating and it gets real annoying.

I have not encountered that much abbreviations here in mylot, except for word acronyms, but thank you for reminding us so i will also be aware of the words i will be using and posting.

I don't normally come across the discussions that use abbreviation. I think the newbies usuaaly use the abbrevation, not so much the old mylot users from all I seen. I don't like to write discussions in abbreviation either or in my resonses for that matter, I find it irritating. I used to send text message in the short form but I have got rid of this habit long time ago. Your English is excellent

English is my first and only language, and I have a hard time understanding some of what is written. Just keep on trying and when you're having a problem understanding just ask. If the original poster won't help, message me and I will try to help.

Sometimes abbreviated words can lose their meaning and the effort becomes lost. Sometimes wriiting out the entire words makes more common sense. Getting in a hurry to get the words out can defeat our purpose of using them in the first place.

I agree. Some of the discussions are hard enough to understand, without using abbreviations. English is my first language, but I know for a lot of Mylotters it is not. How will they learn English if they don't use the right words? Like you said the words can't even be looked up in a dictionary. If they don't learn the langauge then some of the discussions will always be hard to understand and respond to.

I don't use abbreviations because I don't know about them. I am not a native English speaker and it's quite difficult for me to even understand when I see such shortened words. But usually I understand them from the context. I don't think it is a good idea to use them (I mean, for those who do this) because it is not a polite thing to do regarding the people who do their best to write correctly in English.

I think it's a good idea. I will do my best to assist you when typing responses or questions. I can see how that would be difficult for you. You actually do well with you question and responses.

English is my second language as well..However I never had problem with that before..anyway I completly agree with you and I hope everybody else too. It is a great website and there are a lot people from many countries whom don't have english as first language. So, everytime you see something that you cannot understand leave some comment about it and I am sure they are gonna help you. goo luck! :)

i have also experienced interacting in discussions full of abbreviated words. the internet allowed us to do it. the way to overcome this situation is to ask the meaning of it from the poster. that's the way i do when i am in doubt.

English is my first language, and I completely refuse to use abbreviations at all. I think they are useless and detract from the beauty of language. And, as you said, many people on MyLot are not native English speakers, and abbreviations only serve to confuse you and others who speak English as a 2nd language and make it harder for those who do not speak English as a first language to understand.

I agree with you as well. I try hard to type everything fully and sometimes even add explanations if I am aware that what I'm talking about isn't widely known outside of North America. I know I greatly appreciate the explanations of people from other cultures when they let me know what they are talking about instead of jumping in discussing some festival I don't know about. Great idea -- we will all learn more this way!

You are right that people should not keep on posting abbreviated words here on mylot but then too there are many of those which are easily understood like LOL, an abbreviation for laughing out loud or laugh out loud is a common element of Internet slang many people understand such abbreviation and many don't all we can do is ask the someone or try search engine to find what it means it hectic to understand but it helps to type fast another eg: would be we don' say The National Aeronautics and Space Administration but we use (NASA) all we can do is search what they means but yeah that's way we use mylot search engine and also learning some new abbreviation

hello,i agree with you.english is also my second language. some discussion initiator's sentences let me unapprehensive so that i cannot reply the discussion.i hope everyone is trying our best to write standard english. thank you.

Hi tkonlinevn ! I'm also read discussions on myLot everyday , it is true that many abbreviations words , and sometime I can't understand what is the myLotter want to say ! Hope that they will don't use many abbreviations words , my English is not good :D Have a nice day !