The Next Generation of Online Shorthand

By now, everybody, I hope, knows what LOL stands for. Most people probably recognize IMHO, BRB, and AFK. (If you don’t know these, you can always Google* them.) Online shorthand like this arose, of course, because it’s so hard to type full English words on a cellphone’s number keypad. And it’s tedious to type the same common phrases over and over again in chat rooms or instant messages. [Update: O

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