Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?

From: "John Cowan" <cowan@...>
> Tristan scripsit:
>
> > 'Face to face' apparently (i.e. IRL/In Real Life) (I had to check it to.
> > It seems some people don't know the real way to distinguish between the
> > real world and the Net...). ILNY is 'I Love New York'.
>
> "Face to face" and its abbreviation "FTF" are way older than the (popular)
> Internet, and don't mean the same thing as "IRL".  It's only by extension
> that the Internet is not RL; fundamentally, RL is opposed to various
> game/acting contexts, as in "Our characters hate each other, but IRL we're
> good friends."
Hmm, for that I'd use "OOC"...

> For me, anyhow, Net interaction *is* part of RL.
Right.  I come across people for whom it isnt (and they're usually difficult to
interact with OL) but as far as I'm concerned it's not any less "real", it's
just missing some common meatspace features.

    *Muke!
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