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The death of the English Language


               
2010 Dec 16, 9:49pm   2,462 views  13 comments

by TechGromit   follow (1)  

Someone says

The job I lost

I worked at a Mortgage lending company & was laid off 11/07. The people I worked w/were the most amazing people. From the owner to the bosses, fellow employees & clients. I truly loved my job & looked forward to going to work each day. I took on each day as a new adventure to conquer & did that in 2006 when I rcvd Employee of the Yr award out of 110 employees. This was a truly honorable achievement for me & I couldn't wait to see what the following yrs had to come. Little did we see that the market was in the process of crashing? March-Nov I saw countless friends being let go until my turn came in Nov when the co clsd

I've been reading layoff stories, Maybe it's to motivate myself to be thankful I have a job and not bitch about the lousy pay I'm making. Anyway, the story above caught my eye. Why they hell is this person abbreviating every other word? It's not like he's writing a post on twitter. rcvd? Yr? clsd? There no good reason why these words needed to be shortened.

#housing

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1   American in Japan   @   2010 Dec 16, 10:30pm  

I think abbreviations have their place, but they don't need to be used everywhere. This makes you wonder if the person could even write out the word if necessary.

2   CrowsAreSmart   @   2010 Dec 17, 12:23am  

Did you read that story somewhere online?

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