Texting Abbreviations On Discussion Forums

Yeah, what's up with that? A space-saving technique? Since the dawn of typewriters, it's always been 2 spaces after a period.

 

Is SWAK used anymore? (Sealed With A Kiss)

 

I thought I was tricking the program by starting the new sentence on the next line but nope, sometimes it will just jam the sentence back to the single space.

 

I wrote about it before but a lady black English professor from UCLA (I think) stated that it is now proper to conjugate the verb form “I am” to…..I be, you be, he, she and it be’s.

 

You mean it's proper now to say, "I be hungry" instead of "I am hungry"? To me it sounds like a non-english speaking person not quite mastering the language.

 

To me it was a lousy excuse. An excuse for some teachers’ inability to teach.
The whole thing came in the aftermath of the introduction of Ebonics.

(copy/paste item: …….the 'Ebonics' controversy of December 1996 when the Oakland (CA) School Board recognized it as the 'primary' language of its majority African American students and resolved to take it into account in teaching them standard or academic English.

 

I laugh at what my phone comes up with, trying to out think me when texting. I will screw up AI.