OT: Abbreviations (was Re: Making a better textbook (was Re: The Deitel book))

[Robin Munn]

On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 at 10:38 GMT, ACalcium <acalcium at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> Why can u teach this in CS2 when they learn

The word is "you", not "u".

You may not know this yet, but the rest of the Internet is *nothing*
like AOL. We prefer complete English words here, and "cute"
abbreviations like "2" for "to" (or "too"), "4" for "for", and "u" for
"you" just make the writer appear juvenile and immature. I'm not saying
that you *are* juvenile or immature, but that's how using those words
will make you appear.

The only shorthand that is commonly accepted and used on the broader
Internet is appreviations of entire words, like "FYI" for "for your
information" or "BTW" for "by the way".

HTH. ("Hope this helps"). HAND. ("Have a nice day").

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