Among my friends, there seems to be a strong arts/sciences divide on this. Arty types aren't much bothered about rigidly-applied grammar rules and the like. Scientists (& allied trades) are more likely to complain about it spelling, punctuation or grammar.
I like your acronyms -- but partly because I enjoy the head-scratching mini-puzzle when an unfamiliar one comes up, which is probably not the strongest possible endorsement of them. And a few still baffle me (e.g. who is RWTCP? Or is it RTWCP?)
Of my LJ-friends who also do Proper Writing, I usually find their Telegraphically-compressed LJ posts more powerful than their professional work. This makes me uneasy; I don't like circumstances where more work brings worse results, and would rather pretend they don't exist. The informality and succinctness of LJ posts seems to be part of the reason, along with trust in an audience and the lower need to explain everything.
Me? I don't much need abbreviations online, because I type about as fast as I think. Writing longhand, otoh, they're about the only way I'd ever get something written before I stopped caring about it.
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I like your acronyms -- but partly because I enjoy the head-scratching mini-puzzle when an unfamiliar one comes up, which is probably not the strongest possible endorsement of them. And a few still baffle me (e.g. who is RWTCP? Or is it RTWCP?)
Of my LJ-friends who also do Proper Writing, I usually find their
Telegraphically-compressed LJ posts more powerful than their professional work. This makes me uneasy; I don't like circumstances where more work brings worse results, and would rather pretend they don't exist. The informality and succinctness of LJ posts seems to be part of the reason, along with trust in an audience and the lower need to explain everything.
Me? I don't much need abbreviations online, because I type about as fast as I think. Writing longhand, otoh, they're about the only way I'd ever get something written before I stopped caring about it.