/me is an old IRC relic that still lives on through certain IM clients. Or at least it did in Trillian. :)
On 6/27/07, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't understand this /me business, when a simple "I" would suffice...why do geeks use it all the time? Is there a software background to that? SMS language...alas, here to stay, I think... do U hate it, 2? Deepa. On 6/27/07, Casey O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/25/07, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sent along primarily for the inclusion of 'blogosphere' and 'blog' itself. :-) > > So blogosphere is annoying, but I don't really think blog is, other > than that it's kind of like "cool" at this point, all the squares are > using it. All of those words are as much "memes" (is that on there? I > hate that word too) as they are words spawned by the web. All in all > though, I can just glaze over those things. > > What I hate most are people who feel compelled to "text"/"sms" talk in > their email correspondence. My favorites are of course "coz" > (translation "because") or "ppl" (translation "people"). It makes me > want to stab myself in the eyes. Or at least send them nasty emails > saying "I am not a f*cking cell phone!" > > Casey > >
