OMG! The language barrier between young and old is getting wider as college students’ speech gets shorter, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. With students constantly communicating online with IM and texting on cellphones, they’ve rid themselves of the need to spell out words in their entirety. Now they are incorporating such abbreviations in common speech as well.
That may create awk situations if profs hear such abbrevs coming from their students. The meanings aren’t always obvi and can sound ridic. While it can be totes inappropes to talk like this to a prof, students can most def understand each other. —Dan Carnevale
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