LOL speak

I h8 LOL speak!!!

This is going to more rant than post - cope.

First of all I will explain what I refer to as LOL speak. It is the kind of thing that you can use while sending an SMS and want to save on characters, seeing as you get a limit of how much you can have. In this use i find it acceptable, don't do it myself but I can understand the reason for using it. However when it is (ab)used in emails I just feel that the person is being lazy.

There is a person that i have to deal with at the moment who insists on sending me emails typed in LOL speak. Here is an example of what i am getting -

'hi how r ya? just touching base 2 c how u r doing. hope all is well with ******. any problems please dont hesitate 2 call me. l know l never made ur last appointment date so if u feel u need it let me no.'

And it goes on... I mean come on!!!

The first email this person sent me, I opened and saw that it was written in this fashion and promptly deleted it without reading it. She then asked me what I thought of the idea in the email and I told her that I had received it but did not read it as it was gibberish. She has not gotten the hint as she has continued to send them to me like that...

Now for my disclaimer:

I myself have been known to use the phrase LOL, as well as WTF, RTFM, ROFL, LMAO, NSFW, one of my personal favourites - PEBKAC, regular readers on this blog might be aware of MFL, and regular readers of the Peanut blog will be aware of BTD.

I feel that these in context (and used sporadically) are fine!!! It is when the sentence has more abbreviations and shortcuts than actual words I get a bit ** groan**

And I have just thought of another that I use on occasion -

TTFN G

My "Lord of the Rings"

As some of you might remember a few years ago there was a movie released called "Lord of the Rings".

For anyone who has not seen the movie and intends to i suppose you could call this a spoiler alert, but if you have not seen the movie by now it is your own fault if i am about to spoil it for you.

Now i must go back in time even more and explain my previous knowledge of the whole "Lord of the Rings" thing - NOTHING. I had never read the books or seem any of the previously made TV shows, cartoon or whatever had been produced under that Lord of the Rings banner.

So when i went to see the movie i was aware of only a few things -

1. This was the first of a trilogy of films
2. The title was Lord of the Rings (rings plural)
3. The first movie was called "Fellowship of the Rings"
   
4. and that was pretty much it (:

With the knowledge i had - three movies, multiple rings - i made the assumption that each movie was about one of the rings. I also made the assumption that the first ring was a fellowship ring (?). The funny thing is that no-one in my circle had made the assumption of what little knowledge i had.

M34tb4LL and i sat down in the cinema and started watching the movie, some good special effects, storyline not at all what i expected though. Walk walk walk, fight fight fight, walk walk walk, hello uncle - my what big teeth you have, walk walk walk, fight fight fight, a couple of bare footed hobbits hop into a boat and float along a river and then...

Well that was it!!! i was waiting for them to drop the ring into the volcano or where ever they were headed, but the movie just finished!!!

And the sad fact is when the movie finished i did verbalise my disapproval right there in the cinema.

You see, i was expecting this story to be finalised so the next two movies could be about the nextcoming from? what kind of a fool am i?!?!? DON'T ANSWER THAT.

Now you might ask why i am telling this story only now, well i have just been watching the Antiques Road Show (love that show) and there was a gentleman on it who wanted to get an idea of how much a letter from Tolkien was worth. A letter that he received from the writer very many years ago after he wrote to him expressing his disapproval that he had bought the first book and read it and did not have closure on the story.

I should also add that i have not seen the second or the third movie (yet)

(: G