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

From:Tim May <butsuri@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 22:01
Nik Taylor wrote at 2003-03-04 15:44:51 (-0600)
 > Tristan wrote:
 > > it began with something like 'the hols wr a CWOT [complete waste of
 > > time]').
 >
 > = "The halls were a complete waste of time"?  What does that mean?
 >

"The holidays [vacation] were a complete waste of time."

The actual text quoted in this Yahoo! News article
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=582&e=1&cid=582&u=/nm/20030303/wr_nm/odd_britain_texting_dc

is as follows:

"My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 :
kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc."

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Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>