Mea Culpa
If middle-aged church ladies are doing it, it must be pervasive.
Found this Christian Science Monitor article about the creeping use of IM language in the writing of today’s kids and the headaches caused for their teachers.
To some, it's a creative twist on dialogue, and a new, harmless version of teen slang. But to anxious grammarians and harried teachers, it's the linguistic ruin of Generation IM (instant messenger).
I catch myself at work using certain e-mail type shorthand when pressed for time in taking a written message. (bil, sil, dd, lol) And I tend to forget not everyone is familiar with these. At least I haven’t reduced messages to the priests as to their itineraries to “sup?”