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The over use of abbreviated English
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31 Jan 2011 Mon 07:50 pm |
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It became a habit of me I want to get rid of. But you should understand this. People always prefer the shortest way to express themselves. Because of that for example maybe a hundred years later "u" can take the place of "you" in written language.
Bad bad habit! So get used with me to correct your "we turks" mistakes everytime when I see them. 
Edited (1/31/2011) by zeytinne
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01 Feb 2011 Tue 06:27 pm |
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2mrw???? What on earth are YOU talking about, Marion? I´m a foreigner in English, remember? 
2mrw is tomorrow hehe
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08 Feb 2011 Tue 11:26 pm |
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Is the "I " word also an abbreviated form of an old English word? 
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11 Feb 2011 Fri 01:35 am |
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Is the "I " word also an abbreviated form of an old English word?
before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i; Old English ic, ih; cognate with German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, OCS azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám
Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250 to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts.
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11 Feb 2011 Fri 09:25 am |
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before 900; Middle English ik, ich, i; Old English ic, ih; cognate with German ich, Old Norse ek, Latin ego, Greek egṓ, OCS azŭ, Lithuanian aš, Sanskrit ahám
Reduced to i by 1137 in northern England, it began to be capitalized c.1250 to mark it as a distinct word and avoid misreading in handwritten manuscripts.
Italian io, Spanish yo, Russian ya, Turkish ben, Persian men, Mongolian mi, Finnish mina, Hungarian en, Arabic enne ...
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