I am planning to study Notre Dame students' use of abbreviations in everyday speech (spoken or online). Here are the main divisions so far:
Standard/ND-wide abbreviations: campus buildings (LaFun), concepts relating to ND (The Observ)
More obscure abbreviations used by fewer people (but are still somewhat easily understood by others, although sometimes only in context) - Pizza can be either piz' (peets) or 'za
Failed abbreviations - sometimes people come up with a new one and expect others to understand, but they just don't: FAC
I am going to take note of abbreviations that I observe in people's speech, and I will administer a survey asking participants to list some of their fave abbrevs and provide background/reasons for using those particular abbreviations.
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17 years ago
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i love this idea. I notice myself doing this all the time and I go home and confuse everyone. I mean, we have our own set of slangs at home but this one is gettin out of hand. It must be an ND thing because EVERYONE is doing it. Now i'm more aware of it. The other day i said "gorge" instead of "gorgeous" to talk about a dress or something. I had stop and scold myself for that one.
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