Not hard to figure out the texting shorthand - saves on time, ink and space...

I just skip over the one's I don't know. It doesn't seem to make a difference. I can understand using them on cell phones and the like where the keystrokes cost or are limited but on the computer it's a bit unnecessary.
Spelling? Yeah I make a lot too. I like to blame it on fat fingers. Ha Ha ! But I prefer the whole word. My husband is always checking my Blog for spelling. He was a former English teacher!
MaryKatherine

the first time i used LOL in an e-mail to my dad he answered "i love you too". i guess LOL could be lots of love! i thought it was sweet and never clued him in.

BOM = Block of the month

I just did a quiz and the only letters that were in order was the first and last and could read it it went on to say people don't read each letter it is much like when people spell by phonics I know I am a bad speller and when use spell check but some times one will slip buy

I am with you on all these abbreviations or what I call short hand symbols. I finally figured out that OMG means: OH MY GOD, but the rest remains a mystery. If some smarter person knows what they all mean, please enlighten the rest of us, as we are not using very many brain cells. Laughing

Thank you for saying what I was thinking. :)

I now know that DSm is Domestic Sewing Machine. Un til just recently, I had thought that is stood for darling, darned or d....d sewing machine especially if talking a non-vintage machine (the last 2). I still think it sometimes but only when tired or applicable.

there's a list somewhere, but i'll give you some highlights! dh, ds, dd, dgd, dgs -- dear husband, dear son, dear daughter, dear grand-daughter, dear grandson. lmbo-- laugh my butt off btw--by the way imho, mho-- in my humble opinion, my humble opinion hst-- half square triangle fq, f1/4--fat quarter f8--fat eighth dq-- doll quilt lol-- laugh out loud wof--width of fabric
anything else? it just makes things faster, and we feel even more like kindred spirits when we speak our own language!,LOL.

I used to be very good at spelling, as I have aged, so has my spelling. It's not that I don't know how, but that I can't remember.