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[HR Solutions]

It's the internet, you'll get over it.

No its not. This is the forum. That kind of talk is mainly for young people who cannot bother to type a complete sentence on a phone.
But its your choice at the end of the day ..... you will just find people will ignore you. (on a BUSINESS forum)

[Basment Dweller]

C'mon guys lighten up will you? The OP of this thread is spamming us with shit and I responded with TL;DR and yet I'm the one getting drilled.

TL;DR is commonly used on internet forums to dismiss long winded posts that provide no value or content.

I agree that this forum shouldn't devolve into juvenile internet speak but are we really going to check every users use of language, grammar and abbreviations?

[HR Solutions]

C'mon guys lighten up will you? The OP of this thread is spamming us with shit and I responded with TL;DR and yet I'm the one getting drilled.

TL;DR is commonly used on internet forums to dismiss long winded posts that provide no value or content.

I agree that this forum shouldn't devolve into juvenile internet speak but are we really going to check every users use of language, grammar and abbreviations?

No we don't "check every users use of language" ........but you will get a reaction when you say - "you'll get over it." - especially considering you are a month old on the forum. But anyway ..... don't worry about it - enjoy the forum ...... and follow the rules

[HR Solutions]

I was just thinking of this again. And I am not at all getting to you Basement Dweller, but being in the recruitment industry we get this quite a lot when people either e mail us or comment on our work Facebook page. It irritates the shit out of me/us. And as much as I fully agree with you that the posting above was way too long and I also lose interest after the second line because it is too long and it is very boring. We are instant gratification people, therefore when a person posts long postings like that it is normally utter crap ! But to get back to the "mixit" talk - In our industry people do themselves NO justice at all when communicating with us or a potential employer - they give the wrong impression - it looks like they can't read or write and definitely can't bother to put a proper sentence together. I and I know a few of our girls delete an e mail with this kind of mixit talk and we do this from past experience. I handle our Facebook work page and if I see a posting with da and all the other shortened version of talking that I have to actually read 3 times before I understand what is being said - I immediately delete it.

I also know our clients do NOT accept it - so as much as it has a place between friends it does not have a place in the workplace.

[Basment Dweller]

I guess I've been lurking too much around the Reddit forum users and bodybuilding.com miscers. Different forums, different styles

BTW I was REALLY surprised to find such and active forum that is South African based. Forums are awesome sources of information.

[pmbguy]

Hey Basment Dweller don't stress cuzzie... I use some internet slang but LOL is pretty much it. Where I am in agreement with HR is that it often projects the short hand communicator, off the bat before knowing the person, as somewhat frivolous and lacking substance... an initial perception... off course the meaning stays the same therefore it cannot be said that such a perception is necessarily valid. Roughly, 30yo and older don't use it allot whilst the younger you go you get to stuff the 25yo don't understand... hey I said roughly, I got a sms once in full shorthand, all cool like. I was utterly perplexed as to its content or even its nature. When I phoned it was an older woman asking me to come to her house to service her equipment.

Interestingly - internet/cell phone shorthand will eventually change English, it's an unstoppable evolution

[HR Solutions]

I think it will change things to a certain extent but I fail to understand how "da" is that much shorter than "the" and "xtent." is shorter than "extent" for example. Some of the shortened word usage is just plain dumb and I think if we can't try to use the english language to our best we are going to dumb down a lot quicker than we expect.

[Basment Dweller]

Brb gonna troll HR solutions with forum shorthand.

[pmbguy]

Oh trust me HR English will chance no matter how grotesque the outcome, IMHO. U gt t gt usd tit lol cz the kds r cool FRL ADJ fr BFF

Basement what does brb stand for?

HR, do you eat incompetence and children for breakfast?

[HR Solutions]

brb ..... be right back

[pmbguy]

Brb - damn I thought it was something bad, Basement I am very disappointed.

I just made my stuff up above, HR I think the best way to get ahead of this thing is to join a pokemon chatroom

[HR Solutions]

Brb - damn I thought it was something bad, Basement I am very disappointed.

I just made my stuff up above, HR I think the best way to get ahead of this thing is to join a pokemon chatroom

Why - Ive joined a mature adult Business Forum .....

[Houses4Rent]

I agree with HR. I cannot stand this text talk as it takes me to long to figure what it means or do not understand it at all. I delete it or at least cannot take the writer any serious.