h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I don't know what 'IMHO' means

Lets not argue life is far far too short .

IMHO = In My Humble Opinion

Oh, I should have known that.

Firstly LW you don't know if it was Reef who yikes it and secondly, for the person who doesn't know what IMHO means it litterally means In My Humble Opinion. It tends to be used by people who believe it adds credibility to their argument and is also often an indicator that said person feels that their oppinion is anything but humble. It has a counterpart, IYHO, In Your Humble Opinion, which is often used by the same people as IMHO. It is normally used to indicate that 'your' opinion is a darn sight more humble than their's and in the belief that it weakens 'your' argument.

In recent years these have become corrupted by missunderstanding and the 'H' is ocasionaly meant to mean honest

Well Text / MSN Speak is commen place but sorry if it confused you.

i see

I DIDN'T Yikes it, I didn't bother replying to it because I didn't want to lower myself to the playground name pulling contest that Lord Wolfden has

I didn't think it'd be you Reef. Also LW txt words and/or phrases may be in common usage in other places, but you shouldn't really use them on here. This is not a 'chat site' you should type out words in full, or as close as you can get, if'n ya'll don't know how to spell it then you may miss stuff out, but try anyway, someone may correct the spelling for you

yo ho ho

TB I will bear that in mind

While Text/Hacker/Message speak isn't against house rules it's use is discouraged

Okay fair enough I will not use text speak in the future.

Bugger, wrong button in' new computers *Mutter*

And you will be told so, so don't take it as carte blanche to use it because it's not a house rule and when someone complains about it you can't say "It's not against the house rules"

Okay point taken

Things like 'IMHO' and 'lol' you'll probably get away with, but there are a small number of people on here who will go spare at you for putting things like that, I know I had one really lay into me for it when I was a newbie. At least you don't type all in txt, I've seen people who do, and then go off on one when you ask them not to, or there are people who type everything in uppercase, the're going to a very special level of hell, a level normally reserved for child molesters and those folks who talk at the theatre.

TB you have a valid point I will refrain from using Text/MSN Speak from now on.

sorry but IMO/IMHO are commonly used here, along with a few others.

Although text talk such as C U l8er, ASL etc. are very much frowned upon.

Emmiy

Double simpost