Re: Tho (was: Blandness (was: Uusisuom's influences))

In a message dated 4/17/01 10:54:00 PM, romilly@EGL.NET writes:

<< Just out of curiosity:  to those of you who have occasion to write e-mails

in other languages (Swedish, Danish, German, Spanish...Chinese?)-- are there

abbreviations similar to AFAIK, IMHO etc. in those cases? >>

    There are no abbreviations/contractions/condensations I know of in 
Spanish, other than pá for para (my apologies to those who can't view the "a" 
with accent ague), and that, if you think about it, is living language 
evolution.  Do you ever think about the way the languages we speak now are 
changing and how we can see them and possibly guess at how they'll look 
hundreds or thousands of years from now?  It gives me chills.  But anyway, I 
shouldn't talk about such things for Spanish, because the only person I 
communicate with is my grandma, whose every other word is "Dios" or "el 
Señor" and "Su amor", usually all caps, italics, underlined, bold, lots of 
exclamation points...

-David