Originally Posted By Elderp We have all see them: ROTFL, POS, LOL, GTG, TXT, etc. These have already become a part of regular common English language, but should they be exceptable in formal English? What I mean by formal English is if you were writing a Business document or a school paper, should emoticons be ok? TTYL
Originally Posted By imadisneygal In my opinion, these have absolutely no place in formal written language. Informal, sure...all day long. But not in formal language.
Originally Posted By alexbook Not yet. Formal language typically lags informal language by some decades. Half a century from now, "LOL" will be as acceptable as "OK" is today. Or else it will have been forgotten. Hard to tell which, yet. 23 skidoo!
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP First of all there is a difference between emoticons and abbreviations. I don't think either are appropriate for formal papers. Good grief, most contractions are not appropriate for a truely formal paper. Second of all, most formal papers do not need to clearly and quickly convey emotion, the purpose of emoticons and the above abreviations. In a formal paper you are usually condensing information or arguing a point, neither of which needs you to tell your reader that you are winking or laughing out loud.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "We have all see them: ROTFL, POS, LOL, GTG, TXT, etc. These have already become a part of regular common English language, but should they be exceptable in formal English? What I mean by formal English is if you were writing a Business document or a school paper, should emoticons be ok?" Oh hell no. It's the continued dumbing down of the language. And are some of those abbreviations really a part of common language? I don't even know what some of them mean. Where I work POS means Proof Of Service. What is GTG?
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Got to Go - but just guessing!! It's worse when the kids talk like this too - I have had to put my foot down with my DD9 when I kept hearing her using the OMG, LOL, BRB... She doesn't even have a cell phone or email access - but all the kids at school are talking like that now! We correct her all the time!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <Oh hell no. It's the continued dumbing down of the language.> Thank you. I also am really getting tired of getting emails with "u" for "you" and "r" for are. To me, that's not even acceptable for informal emails. Texting, maybe - but I never text.
Originally Posted By Elderp POS - Person Over Shoulder Here is a translator if you need one: <a href="http://www.lingo2word.com/translatetxt.php" target="_blank">http://www.lingo2word.com/tran...etxt.php</a>?
