Re: need care bear art

>> >He's got a point. People saying things like "l8tz" should be shot.
>>
>> Yeah, and people who like strawberries should be shot. I fucking hate
>> strawberries. And let's go back to lynching foreigners because they
>> speak funny too. Hell let's just kill all the youth out there using
>> slang too.
>
>If they can't be bothered to type one extra letter to make 'later', why
>should we be bothered to type hundreds of letters to make them some ASCII
>art?
>
>This is not real-time communication of any sort, you can spend all the time
>you want writing your message, so you should use proper speaking.

quite some of those "things like l8tz" have developed in usenet
newsgroups where you just are ....the jargon lexicon (jargon files)
says the following for "talk mode":

talk mode n. A feature supported by UNIX, ITS, and some other OSes
that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line
conversation. It combines the immediacy of talking with all the
precision (and verbosity) that written language entails. It is
difficult to communicate inflection, though conventions have arisen
for some of these (see the section on writing style in the Prependices
for details). 
Talk mode has a special set of jargon words, used to save typing,
which are not used orally. Some of these are identical to (and
probably derived from) Morse-code jargon used by ham-radio amateurs
since the 1920s. 


     AFAIK
          as far as I know
     BCNU
          be seeing you
     BTW
          by the way
     BYE?
          are you ready to unlink?  (this is the standard way to end a
          talk-mode conversation; the other person types `BYE' to
          confirm, or else continues the conversation)
     CUL
          see you later
     ENQ?
          are you busy?  (expects `ACK' or `NAK' in return)
     FOO?
          are you there? (often used on unexpected links, meaning also
          "Sorry if I butted in ..." (linker) or "What's up?"
          (linkee))
     FWIW
          for what it's worth
     FYI
          for your information
     FYA
          for your amusement
     GA
          go ahead (used when two people have tried to type
          simultaneously; this cedes the right to type to the other)
     GRMBL
          grumble (expresses disquiet or disagreement)
     HELLOP
          hello? (an instance of the `-P' convention)
     JAM
          just a minute (equivalent to `SEC....')
     MIN
          same as `JAM'
     NIL
          no (see NIL)
     O
          over to you
     OO
          over and out
     /
          another form of "over to you" (from x/y as "x over y")
     \
          lambda (used in discussing LISPy things)
     OBTW
          oh, by the way
     OTOH
          on the other hand
     R U THERE?
          are you there?
     SEC
          wait a second (sometimes written `SEC...')
     T
          yes (see the main entry for T)
     TNX
          thanks
     TNX 1.0E6
          thanks a million (humorous)
     TNXE6
          another form of "thanks a million"
     WRT
          with regard to, or with respect to.
     WTF
          the universal interrogative particle; WTF knows what it
          means?
     WTH
          what the hell?
     <double newline>
          When the typing party has finished, he/she types two
          newlines to signal that he/she is done; this leaves a blank
          line between `speeches' in the conversation, making it
          easier to reread the preceding text.
     <name>:
          When three or more terminals are linked, it is conventional
          for each typist to prepend his/her login name or handle
          and a colon (or a hyphen) to each line to indicate who is
          typing (some conferencing facilities do this automatically).
          The login name is often shortened to a unique prefix
          (possibly a single letter) during a very long conversation.
     /\/\/\
          A giggle or chuckle.  On a MUD, this usually means
          `earthquake fault'.

Most of the above sub-jargon is used at both Stanford and MIT. Several
of these expressions are also common in email, esp. FYI, FYA, BTW,
BCNU, WTF, and CUL. A few other abbreviations have been reported from
commercial networks, such as GEnie and CompuServe, where on-line
`live' chat including more than two people is common and usually
involves a more `social' context, notably the following: 

     <g>
          grin
     <gr&d>
          grinning, running, and ducking
     BBL
          be back later
     BRB
          be right back
     HHOJ
          ha ha only joking
     HHOK
          ha ha only kidding
     HHOS
          ha ha only serious
     IMHO
          in my humble opinion (see IMHO)
     LOL
          laughing out loud
     NHOH
          Never Heard of Him/Her (often used in initgame)
     ROTF
          rolling on the floor
     ROTFL
          rolling on the floor laughing
     AFK
          away from keyboard
     b4
          before
     CU l8tr
          see you later
     MORF
          male or female?
     TTFN
          ta-ta for now
     TTYL
          talk to you later
     OIC
          oh, I see
     rehi
          hello again

Most of these are not used at universities or in the UNIX world,
though ROTF and TTFN have gained some currency there and IMHO is
common; conversely, most of the people who know these are unfamiliar
with FOO?, BCNU, HELLOP, NIL, and T. 
The MUD community uses a mixture of Usenet/Internet emoticons, a few
of the more natural of the old-style talk-mode abbrevs, and some of
the `social' list above; specifically, MUD respondents report use of
BBL, BRB, LOL, b4, BTW, WTF, TTFN, and WTH. The use of `rehi' is also
common; in fact, mudders are fond of re- compounds and will frequently
`rehug' or `rebonk' (see bonk/oif) people. The word `re' by itself is
taken as `regreet'. In general, though, MUDders express a preference
for typing things out in full rather than using abbreviations; this
may be due to the relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to
include many touch typists and to assume high-speed links. The
following uses specific to MUDs are reported: 


     CU l8er
          see you later (mutant of `CU l8tr')
     FOAD
          fuck off and die (use of this is generally OTT)
     OTT
          over the top (excessive, uncalled for)
     ppl
          abbrev for "people"
     THX
          thanks (mutant of `TNX'; clearly this comes in batches of
          1138 (the Lucasian K)).
     UOK?
          are you OK?

Some B1FFisms (notably the variant spelling `d00d') appear to be
passing into wider use among some subgroups of MUDders. 
One final note on talk mode style: neophytes, when in talk mode, often
seem to think they must produce letter-perfect prose because they are
typing rather than speaking. This is not the best approach. It can be
very frustrating to wait while your partner pauses to think of a word,
or repeatedly makes the same spelling error and backs up to fix it. It
is usually best just to leave typographical errors behind and plunge
forward, unless severe confusion may result; in that case it is often
fastest just to type "xxx" and start over from before the mistake. 

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