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

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001 01:51:54 -0400, Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:

>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?
In internet Icelandic (we use the net alot over here - I think I read
somewhere we're the world's most connected), there's lots of abbreviations
to the orthography, which is kind of bulky and conservative; but not
abbreviations like AFAIK and IMHO, not that I know of. Generally, caps and
irrelevant punctuation is dropped, as always; but also, there
are "contracted phrase spellings", representing actual colloquial
pronunciation: I generally see "akkuru?" for "af hverju?" (why?), for
example. But I don't chat much with other Icelanders, except my closest
friends. With them, I've invented other (kind of linguistics-oriented)
contractions, such as "eikkur" for "einhver" (somebody), conjugated
like "nokkur" (a certain).

Hmm, need to leave; happy conlanging :)

Óskar