Sentence examples for text abbreviations from inspiring English sources
Crystal provides lists of text abbreviations in eleven languages besides English.
Meanwhile, educators were banning cell phones from the classroom to discourage cheating, and there was concern that standards of English would drop as text abbreviations entered the mainstream.
People who post embarrassing photos of their friends on Facebook, or who text abbreviations like OMG and ROTFL were tweaked, as were mean-spirited Republicans and spineless Democrats.
Maybe we'll all be communicating in emoticons and text abbreviations eventually, but for now we still need to know how to write and read a little more eloquently than that.
iOS 5.0 allows Over The Air updating and iTunes syncing, gives (AT LAST!!) a glossary so that we can make up our own text abbreviations and correct bad auto-correct habits (if ever I type "tou" it now automatically becomes "you"), offers a vast, customisable range of notification options, including a draw-down curtain familiar to Android users.
He has transposed the whole of Romeo and Juliet's famous Act II, Scene II into text abbreviations and produced it as Were4 rt thou Rmo? It's a flip-page book with the text versions alternating with Shakespeare's actual words; currently a uni project limited edition, but hopefully more widely available soon.
Laugh out loud at this imperfect subjunctive A few weeks ago I mentioned that a new verb had entered the French language: "Loler", to "laugh uproariously", derived from the English text abbreviation "lol", for "laugh out loud".
The Molfile with the plain text abbreviation is shown in (c), while the SketchEl representation with the abbreviation encoded inline is shown in (d).
Figure 4 shows two approaches to representing bromobenzene: in (a) the 7 heavy atoms are drawn out in full, while in (b) the phenyl (C6H5) fragment is written as a single node with a text abbreviation.
Then I can use texting abbreviations.
So the stylistic character of SMS writing changed, and texting abbreviations, previously optional, became obligatory.
