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Rakel · #21 06-24-2007, 07:10 PM

MAM is one that *really* annoy me!

jeb865 · #22 06-24-2007, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Abbreviations are different on each board. Here it's okay to use abbreviations of song names, because people know what they are. If you go to a Megadeth board and say that YGLABN has a great solo, it wouldn't really work no would it?

And abbreviations in general (the generally accepted ones) are ok in my book, things like LOL, BTW, ROTFL etc. But if you abbreviate every word in your post, that's just stupid.

Ice

I agree 100% with Ice here. There's no need to abbreviate every word you type in a message. Then again every post does not need to be written like a college thesis either. Posting on a message board is different than sending text messages on a cell phone. You have more time to proof read your post as well as edit it after the fact. Everyone should at least make the effort to post something that other readers don't have to decipher to understand.

Adrian · #23 06-24-2007, 07:42 PM

As long as they're capable of being understood, I don't care if they misspell a few things or use less than college level grammar.

Adrian

Javier · #24 06-24-2007, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Iceman

Abbreviations are different on each board. Here it's okay to use abbreviations of song names, because people know what they are. If you go to a Megadeth board and say that YGLABN has a great solo, it wouldn't really work no would it?

And abbreviations in general (the generally accepted ones) are ok in my book, things like LOL, BTW, ROTFL etc. But if you abbreviate every word in your post, that's just stupid.

Ice

I know I just pointed that out to say how exaggerated the whole issue really is. I mean it's taken 3 threads already, and at the end of the day people will just post how they post.

Peterson · #25 06-25-2007, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Thomas Anderson

Very good point. Personally I only tend to recognise a few of the 'main' songs when people do that, but a lot of the time I have no idea which song they mean.

True, when I first started visiting this board, I had no clue what most of these abbreviations were for, most of the time I ended up looking at the cd track listings to find out! Getting a bit more used to it now though, it is annoying when someone abbreviates song names that aren't very commonly known.

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