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Dear Janet, At 08:27 PM 5/24/98 EDT, you wrote: >SPAM >= that canned usa-manufactured pseudo ham >= 'junk' e-mail spewed to all and sundry > >LOL >= laughing out loud > >PD >= parkinson's disease > >PWD >= person with parkinson's disease > >PARKIE >= another version of person with parkinson's disease > ><g> = grin or giggle ><s> = smile > :-) = smile >IMHO = in my humble opinion, >FWIW = for whatever it's worth, >his expression I.Y.Q. >as pronounced in english >sounds like 'eye why kew' >and if said quickly, can sound like 'i wike you', >which can sometimes be interpreted as 'baby-talk' for 'i like you' > I like to add some abbr. (hehehe, that is short for abbreviations) to your turbo-language. first of all the land-code at the end of many addresses. CA = Canada, NL = Netherlands, DE = Germany, DK = Danmark, UK = United Kingdom, BE = Belgium, FR = France, IL = Israel and many others you can think of yourself. We also have, more commonly used, PWP = Person With Parkinson's In the chatboxes many abbr. r used. Words are abbreviated to one letter and/or number. An example : "how r u?" "i'm gr8, thnx" transcription : "How are you?" "I'm doing great, thank you" ppl = people People will use as less characters as possible. No time wasted with making capitals. Numbers in stead of parts of words and signs in stead of words or parts of sentences. Words abbreviated to one character etc etc. A few examples brb = be right back oic = Oh, I see ttyl = type to you later Using this turbo-language one can end up writing a letter in half the time one needs to in normal letters. But the time a reader has to spend in order to read it, is not interesting for the sender. ttyl, gr8 eve, greet's fr tx Kees