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January 26, 2008

Abbreves...it's what happs

"Hey Nay, I have to use the rest, can you watch the reg?" These were the words that introduced me to what has become an international phenomenon among high schoolers and college students, OK, and 30-year-olds. That's right, I'm talkin' about abbreviations. One of my friends at work, Nora, just graduated high school last year and was the 'Queen of Abbreves' at Kaldi's. It took me about a day later to realize that not only had she spoken to me in abbreves, but I had understood what she was saying. The reason being that many of our high schoolers were talking this same way...I just got used to it. Eventually we all caught on and took the abbreves to a new level. The Buffalo Chicken Salad Sandwich became the Buff Chic Sal Sand. Abbreves include initials also, therefore, we were always JJ'in and JK'in with each oth. It was great, and continues to be. We've always been ones to serve skim caps, my mokes, carm lats, and the like. Before we knew it, everything we said to each oth had many abbreves. It was tote os. Now when we see each oth, we have to include a few abbreves just to rememb good times. Where did it start? I believe from the almighty text mess and emails. You don't have so much space, or time for that matt to write a full word, since this is the case just put what you need to, and therefore, say what you need to. Examples would include: "That is unbelieve,"; "IKR", I know, right; "Mer Chri," for the holidays; and finally, "Gooey Butt" for Gooey Butter Cake. In case you're wondering...in Spanish we got: "Que Pas?," "Hasta Lueg," "Porfa," y "Divertid."
Welp, have a fantas day...see you soon!

| By Nathan Gemayel | 9:13 PM

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Posted by: claire at January 27, 2008 2:56 PM

Posted by: claire at January 27, 2008 2:56 PM

Posted by: Nathan Gemayel at January 27, 2008 6:17 PM

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