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Shorthand Typing
When people who are using a full qwerty keyboard are too lazy to type all the letters in a word. Commonly used in emails, forums, blogs and text messages.
I can never understand why people use Shorthand Typing like this:
'plz' instead of please; 'jst' instead of just; 'cuz' instead of because; 'dat' instead of that, and so on.
'plz' instead of please; 'jst' instead of just; 'cuz' instead of because; 'dat' instead of that, and so on.
Shorthand Typing by Alexis-Relationship Terrorist June 30, 2009
Related Words
sorthan • Sorth and Forth • Shorthand • Shorthand Typing • sorahan • Sorthener • Sortland • sothana • Sothany • Verbal shorthand
Sorthener
A person from the south of England who embraces northern culture i.e Brown sauce, steak and ale pies, mushy peas, Oasis, Adidas sambas and the Happy Mondays. Sortheners are often found north of Watford gap trying to blend in.
Richard: Are you staying down here this weekend
Alex: Nah mate I'm heading to Manchester to see an Oasis tribute band
Richard: You dirty Sorthener!
Alex: Nah mate I'm heading to Manchester to see an Oasis tribute band
Richard: You dirty Sorthener!
Sorthener by Dhamio6587 December 27, 2013
Shorthand
Shorthand typing.
Usually used in online games and instant messengers like AIM.
The person that is 'shorthanding' usually types messages with many fragments and errors, and no punctuation either.
Usually used in online games and instant messengers like AIM.
The person that is 'shorthanding' usually types messages with many fragments and errors, and no punctuation either.
Idiot: hey guyz wat up
Smart Person: Nothing much, you?
Idiot: lolZ, i wsa jus t @ my cuzzins house
Smart Person: Cool, what did you do there?
Idiot: we playd some halo, den we went outsid 2 plya sum basket ball
Idiot: we had a lto of fnu
Smart Person: I have no idea what you just said, please stop shorthanding.
Idiot: lolZ @ dat!
Idiot: no wya!!
-Note: This took me around 10 minutes to write.-
Smart Person: Nothing much, you?
Idiot: lolZ, i wsa jus t @ my cuzzins house
Smart Person: Cool, what did you do there?
Idiot: we playd some halo, den we went outsid 2 plya sum basket ball
Idiot: we had a lto of fnu
Smart Person: I have no idea what you just said, please stop shorthanding.
Idiot: lolZ @ dat!
Idiot: no wya!!
-Note: This took me around 10 minutes to write.-
Shorthand by krazykushluk August 18, 2006
Shorthand
A style of typing that noobs need to stop doing because it's driving people mad with their insensitivity of using poor spelling. It's useful in school and college to get notes down faster, but a major cause for murder when used to talk to people on the internet. The people that usually use shorthand on the internet like AIM, MSN or whatever are usually people that don't know how to fucking spell or write clear sentences. It's rare if these people DO know how to spell. Also, it's fucking annoying having to squint at the computer screen trying to make sense of something that looks scrunched together or looks like it came from another planet. The English language is the 2nd most used language in the word. Please, noobs, try not to fuck it up with your annoying use of shorthand. It's driving the world insane.
Noob: yo, waddap dawg. hw u do n?
Human: I'm doing fine.
Noob: wna hnq out sumtym? lyk @ da moves?
Human: Ugh, I'm sorry can you please type regular? I can't understand.
Noob: i em typin rglar. izz sumtn rong?
Human: Oh, my fucking God... Your shorthand is killing my eyesight.
Noob: nah, chll homee. i got disz undah cntrl.
Human: What the fuck are you saying like seriously? You are giving me a fucking headache. I think I'm going to have a brain hemorrhage because of you.
Noob: wuts dat? bryn hamrge?
Human: Oh, my God.. That's it I'm out.
Human has left the conversation.
Noob: yo dawg? u der?
Your message could not be sent to all recipients.
Human: I'm doing fine.
Noob: wna hnq out sumtym? lyk @ da moves?
Human: Ugh, I'm sorry can you please type regular? I can't understand.
Noob: i em typin rglar. izz sumtn rong?
Human: Oh, my fucking God... Your shorthand is killing my eyesight.
Noob: nah, chll homee. i got disz undah cntrl.
Human: What the fuck are you saying like seriously? You are giving me a fucking headache. I think I'm going to have a brain hemorrhage because of you.
Noob: wuts dat? bryn hamrge?
Human: Oh, my God.. That's it I'm out.
Human has left the conversation.
Noob: yo dawg? u der?
Your message could not be sent to all recipients.
Shorthand by allergictobullshit May 2, 2010
internet shorthand
Def: the way lazy people type for IMs, texting, email, and other forms of cryptic writing
I just rather call it that because not everyone is 31337
I just rather call it that because not everyone is 31337
I feel like no one respects the English language anymore, just by using internet shorthand like: omg, wtf, n00b, lol, srsly stfu, ttyl, etc.
internet shorthand by Sway- October 11, 2007
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