SMS abbreviations sneak into school essays. A British student is arguing that her essay, written in SMS shorthand, should receive a passing grade:

"My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF & thr 3 : kids FTF. ILNY, it's a gr8 plc."

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No where are the links to the morse operators abbreviations like CUAGN and 88 (love & kisses) and better still the 5 letter codes ANARE used when radio telephone links were too precious so WYSSA had to do for "All my (our) love darling" or you could tell them YIHMO if they needed to know that "I have grown a beard but think I'll shave it off before I get back to Australia".

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Useit.Com: Persuasive Design: New Captology Book. After ten dark years of fighting (and partly conquering) user-hostile design without much theoretical progress in HCI, Dr. Fogg has now opened the field's next frontier with his work on "captology" -- computers as persuasive technologies. [Tomalak's Realm]
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