POF Abreviation Guide

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Originally Posted by OFxZeppers

Aye, but to include them on the list also encourages one to use them.
Plus those are not common shortenings, they are common mispellings. There is a difference.

Just because some show POOR etiquette does not mean the rest of us should acknowledge it.

Is this coming from the same person that makes the egregious mistake of thinking that "irregardless" is a valid word?

The point is, to list the common ones somewhere for people. I did not know that you are able to read minds...amazing. How do you know when something is a misspelling vs. something being a shortening (that happens to pass the [+] filter.)

Anyhow, you can't guess the motivation for someone using a common POTCO shortening, acronym, smiley, abbreviation or even a misspelling. For example, to type "what's up" in an eye dialect, I usually type " 'sup " to show the elision. In this game, only "sup" is possible to type - without its essential preceding apostrophe. Yet every time I log in, I hear someone say "sup" or "Sup?" or "Sup." being used to mean "hello." Obviously, the kids today are not using the archaic meaning of "to eat one's supper" for the word "sup."

Note: The light-hearted teasing above is being said (typed) with a friendly smile on my face. No insult is intended in any of what I've made friendly jibes about, above. On some level, I strongly share OfxZepper's hatred of these mistakes. If it were me, I'd auto-correct all the common errors to proper standard English. But for the purposes of POF, there should be a short list here, of the common stuff one encounters in-game.

Originally Posted by Swash

No Noob Is Correct n00b isnt even a word in the dictionary.

And what drawn out research have you done on this topic? Swash, you weren't even born yet, in the era of "leet speek" - how on Earth do you propose to validate your incorrect position? Sorry, but "n00b" has been the proper leet spelling for over 25 years.