So lazy gits have now started shortening probably

[Alinta]

so prolly. I've finally managed to work out what prolly meant.

How difficult is it to type an extra 2 letters?? Why do people do this?

to prolly

dunno

sorry. i will go away....

that should be soz....

SOZ! Really? Haven't come across that one (yet). Oh no.

Soz is old they've been using that since the 80's where have you been???

REALLY Gin? Before the internet became into our every day lives?

yep, soz is ancient - in line with "dunno" "gizzajob" "ta" and shortening names to Gazza (Gary), Shaz (Sharon)

I favour a probly, but prolly is good too.

Alinta I am afraid so

The boom time of all these numerous abbreviations may have been the introduction of the original 160 character limit in a text message (pre-concatinated text messaging) but even before then language was squidged squashed and scrunched to buggs (buggery )

I personally don't mind a sprinkling of it but too much makes me cross-eyed of it is a written thing.

Surely this has been going on longer than that? There's been Morse code, telegrams, semaphore- all grist to them mill of the abbreviator. And given that the ten commandments were given to Moses on stone tablets, I bet they weren't as verbose as the Bible would have it. Not to mention the Book of Mormon (sadly lost)- probably written from beginning to end in textspeak. Gold ain't cheap...

And tomoz (tomorrow). I hate that.

The one that really bothers me is kk instead of ok. Why is it easier to write kk? Why kk? What does it even mean??

I first saw prolly about ten years ago online!