Steve Isaacs

A. M. E. N. I absolutely can't stand that. Maybe it's because I own a Treo... - Bradley McSpinn

how do you feel about "gonna" as opposed to "going to?" hey, i'm a new yorker, it's my right! - Cee Bee the friendfeeder

I have no issue with "gonna". Such as I have no issue with "can't", etc. - Bradley McSpinn

Here here. - ::Kristen::

I'm down with "gonna" and colloquial terms - they add spice. - Steve Isaacs

“I’ll do what I can to help y’all. But, the game’s out there, and it’s play or get played. That simple” - Omar - Thomas Hawk

This bugs me b/c I'm a white guy, and I'm required to like grammar http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.co... - Dave Roth

Curious: is there a "Would Be Editors" room or the like? - Michael W. May via twhirl

I will try to stop but those may be harder habits for me to break than Friend Feed - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Well, then how about also spelling out "Ok. Thanks. Goodbye" :P - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Dave: Haha! - Steve Isaacs

and don't forget punctuation. - Victor Ryden

I kinda left that in to be MYSTERIOUS. *raises one eyebrow* - Steve Isaacs

Hear. All my friends use the shortcuts, which might be okay for texting but FREAKIN IM? WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR MINDS? - Yuvi

Vowels in SMS are like dealing with pennies. It all adds up. - Ken Sheppardson

omg wth idk y u r so y2k bc abbrevs r gr8, lol...sok, i gtg but we r still bff, cu l8r! - Hao Chen

As someone who has been a Prince fan for most of her life, I must D-b8 wit U. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger

Thanks Hao, you made me feel old. I really can't understand wtf you're saying. - Marcos Marado

I feel sad - I can actually understand Hao Chen's message :( - Yuvi

Who still carries around a dumbphone these days? Most people I know have a smartphone or Internet access somehow. - Matt Donders

I'm guilty as charged for using these abbreviations on Twitter. But for good reason! Character conservation. - Andrew Dobrow

I want a Like button on comments for Hao's comment - kthnxbai - Mike Doeff

@Matt: The US isn't the only country in the planet! :) - Yuvi

ahmm @Matt.. sorry.. but "dumbphones" are the majority (significantly) - Naor

@Yuvi - I know its not, just seems like a lot of people are carrying are smartphones everywhere. @Naor - Haha, I know I guess sarcasm is hard over the Internet. - Matt Donders

r u crzy, ur not mking cents - Chris Harris

o i c, ok - Shey

+1 for Yuvi and +5 for Hao - Dobromir Hadzhiev

lmao - Morton Fox

WTF? for brief typing, especially in character limited situations, it's a necessity. So I wouldn't write a formal letter/article that way, but it's just the new form of shorthand. - clarke thomas

yeah, Im with Andrew on this - I dont think the 140 character limitation on twittr is helping your cause. - sedgewick

Clarke - that's exactly my problem with it, I don't think it should be cool to use as shorthand away from a non-qwerty phone. It's lazy. - Steve Isaacs

Steve - it's lazy to do between qwerty devices, but you don't always know that someone you're SMSing to has qwerty or not. I have run into the situation where I've received the 2nd half of the SMS prior to the 1st, thus I end up replying to something previously covered. I would say I use shorthand in IM, twitter(when I need the extra space), and actually e-mails when I single handed typing. - clarke thomas

lol ok @Matt , I just had a meeting today explaining the same thing to a very nice young guy (but he was serious) :) - Naor

But but but - I just saw you use "cya" in the Comic Con room! ;) - Heather Cee

I kinda see cya in the same way as online speak, not text speak. Almost LOL-ey. A fine line. - Steve Isaacs

well l33t vs IRC vs TXT speak comes into play - clarke thomas

_Exactly_ - Skip the short-hand, people, we're only talking two-hundredths of a second. It doesn't mean the difference between an Olympic medal or not that often http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f... ... <playing devil's advocate and slathering on the ironic, but single-letter abbreviation should be used as last resort - drives me nuts when gratuitous> - Micah Wittman

With anything public, like Twitter, I spell everything out. I think people who know how to spell are a dying breed and I don't want to be lumped in with the people who don't know how to spell. (Sometimes I wonder how some of my co-workers became managers!) But with private text messages, I'll take a few shortcuts because, even though I have a Treo, some of my friends don't and I'd rather have my message show up on one screen and on one text, especially when some people pay for each message. - Oliver Ortega Chua

Also your for you're. Unless texting, I always spell things out and "attempt" to spell correctly. It just reads better. +1 - @steve & @oliver - Les