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Pls stopping using "pls"!
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bpyoung
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I see it a lot in the newsletter, and now it's in massive red letters at the top of the forum. Using "txt"-style abbreviations looks very unprofessional - surely it doesn't take that long to type "please" instead?
Sorry, if it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but I always feel that if you're trying to get a serious message across, this sort of things can really undermine it. Am I alone in this view?
Sorry, if it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but I always feel that if you're trying to get a serious message across, this sort of things can really undermine it. Am I alone in this view?
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I only mind them (abbreviations) in the sense that sometimes I'm sitting there, thinking: What on earth does this mean?"There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone.” Louis Camuti0
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bpyoung wrote:I see it a lot in the newsletter, and now it's in massive red letters at the top of the forum. Using "txt"-style abbreviations looks very unprofessional - surely it doesn't take that long to type "please" instead?
Sorry, if it sounds like I'm nitpicking, but I always feel that if you're trying to get a serious message across, this sort of things can really undermine it. Am I alone in this view?
r u ok m8
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pls use pse instead0
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