Parents Aren't LOL Over Teacher's Text Messaging Abbreviations Assignment

A Texas middle school math teacher hands out a homework assignment to his sixth-grade class to find out the meaning of some text messaging abbreviations. Needless to say, some parents are miffed. " Some of the 20 abbreviations translated to "keeping parents clueless"...

OMG! Pidgins are the Urban Birds of New Zealand

So when is text messaging format not acceptable? Clarie Trevett of the New Zealand Herald, writes that students have received fair warining not to use cellphone texting shorthand the NCEA upcoming exams. Apparently, a rumor circulated recently to the effect that the New...

Etiquette or netiquette? This is the question

2NITE I’m going to address U AAF. I’m AATK and I hope that U are already AAS, not FMTYEWTK. I’m already FOMCL, imagining U reading this FYI and saying IGTP, IHU, but IIMAD, IHA!

Do you know the difference between an acronym and an abbreviation?

I've written a short article about abbreviations and acronyms being one of the trickier areas of accessibility to implement. I was going to wait for the amended version of the WCAG 2.0 guidelines but thought I'd publish and be damned, as it poses a lot of questions...