So...Is This Abbreviation In-Game Meant To " Save Time " ?

Messaggio di Murrdurr

awesome, another grammar thread.

Messaggio di Frames

Ya mite b a-bel teh use praper grammer butt i'z stil beats you in PvP :P

Messaggio di Paolo

You should all move to France, where the government monitors the language and fines anyone who uses unauthorized words. True story.

English is a cobbled-together mutt of a language. It's a language of the people. Those nasty acronyms you hate so much will be in Webster's in a generation. Bank on it.

Go read Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue. Hilarious, totally captivating account of the language we live in and how the h3ll it got that way. Know yer history, peeps!

Messaggio di RobbieG1o11

I don't care for many abreviations. I use common ones though, that shorted whole phrases, not one word.

Like:
Lol, Wtf, Omw

And for locations like
SW, IF, UC

So on an so forth.

Messaggio di Kibbles

It is actually from Text messages. Used to be, people had only a certain amount of characters that they could text, and so chat was refined to the most basic possible. People would text while they chatted, and everything was about time and characters. For example,
I went to the ice cream store and asked if I could please have a chocolate ice cream, then I laughed.
became
@ IC store & asked if I could have C IC & lol'd
Eventually, with the addition of on line games, many of them were fps, or first person shooter. This meant that while people were typing, they couldn't be blowing up more baddies. And the language was refined even more, and only the nessecary words were employed, until eventually people only chatted when dead or with a break in fighting. When WoW came out, it was significantly slower than these first person shooters, but the language was there for good. People still have to get that quick cast off to out dps IDKIRLLOL, and so many aspects of the old text language are still standing. With the release of head sets, a new idea was employed, and Vent was born. Vent quickly became the standard for raids, where chatter was needed but typing was too inconveinent, but most of the lower levels stuck with typing, as Vent channels are simply too local. Only a few people can access a given vent, and the majority of the people that you would be chatting to are instead in /1 or /2 or, god forbid, /3 or /y.

Wall o' Text crits Kibbles for 666,666
Kibbles dies
IDKIRLLOL casts Raise Ally on Kibbles

Messaggio di justinc

and yet most of the people complaining here are from teh good old USA wher people have no idea how how to spell COLOUR think that the plual of Dwarf is dwarves ( its not you know Dwarves fantasy race from lord of the rings -dwarfs is the english language spelling)

and yes the extra two seconds of time is important to people --just ask everyone who wants to skip bosses in heroics --time is important .

having said that plox is just stupid --plz is quite acceptable--we all know what it means so everyone go eat a tea spoon of cement and harden the @#$% up

Dude, edit your post for proper English before you start moaning about Americans not spelling words the way Brits do, thanks.