OneDave shared these words of wisdom:
I would like to comment to you that I am not facile with the
various instant message and chat text abbreviations you employ.
I'm sorry, Dave.
What I'm using at times is not "chat" stuff. It's things having been
in use since days far earlier than chats were introduced.
For many long yeras I have been heavily involved in communications in
develpoers' fora back in the days of ComuServe and then in newsgroup.
Ans by this I adopted the habit of using a couple of akronyms which
are/were standing terms like AFAIK , AFAICS, IMO/IMHO or additional
means to add to the "colour"/ "sound" of what is only written, like
"<bg> = big grin, <gbg> = great big grin, <g,d&r> = grin, duck and run
etc.
And over time the usage has just become something icorporated
habitually (just like "inside speech" usual for each king of social
group, people having served in the Army f.e.).
To the extent we can communicate in plain text, I would
appreciate it. --
As said, I'm sorry for using some kind of "Chinese" and I'll try my
best to avoid it.
Rainald