As a matter of fact, there was a lovely example of e-bbreviated English on
this very list serve within the last couple of months. A student wrote in
with much the same "How do I get a job in the museum field?" posting that
shows up here from time to time. This posting, however, began something like
this:

how do i get a job in the museum field? i'd really appreciate it if u would
get back 2 me.

I don't know about the rest of you, but whether or not someone uses
contractions, whether or not their posting reads well out loud, they
eliminate any chance of being taken seriously by addressing a group of
professional potential colleagues as "u."

Cheers,

Laura
--
Laura H. Firth Markley
Interpretive Exhibits Writer/Researcher

P.S. At least the student didn't say "i'd be delited..."


> From: Indigo Nights <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:26:01 -0800
> Subject: On Language . . .
>
> Did anybody in the aforementioned dialogue consider
> the fact that here in the States--and I know it goes
> on in the UK as well--we don't speak the same dialect
> from one geographic locale to another, and often not
> from one generation to another?  Anybody seen the
> stuff that teenagers pass off in email with the caps
> and no caps?

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