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IM abbreviations

I know it's difficult to tweet entire thoughts in 140 characters or less but, puleeze - must every other word be an abbreviation or stupid spelling?

Today we were followed by a young lady where every tweet looks something like this:

Dissapointd dat r cty s so boring. Wud b hap if it wld lk btr.

(translation: Disappointed that our city is so boring. Would be happy if it would look better)

and

my frnd n i r etng sushi

(translation: My friend and I are eating sushi)

It's gonna take me an hour to decode her tweets every time. Oh Puleeze! I can understand using a few abbreviations to make a tweet fit into the 140 character limit but must every other word be this non-language stuff?

dat=that. The REAL word is one more letter! And most sentences can survive without the word that in them at all - try it!

Even better, try typing so everyone can actually read what you're saying and, gasp, use two or three tweets to do it - that's ok too!

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