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The practice of text messaging on cellphones has added some new abbreviations to the language, not all of them welcome to fastidious users of the English language.(THE WEEK)(Brief article)

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The practice of text messaging on cellphones has added some new abbreviations to the language, not all of them welcome to fastidious users of the English language. There is nothing much wrong with "lol" for "laugh out loud." Nor is "omg" objectionable, if interpreted as "Oh, my goodness!" Many people, however, would regard "wtf," an expression of baffled ...

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