Ok now the sisters reminding me of the english teachers..I use normal english on L.I and all only on msn i use shortcuts even maybe here but on threads that doesn't carry as much importance but i feel it's driving away people who can relate to some threads.. i personally came into this forum when i saw the rhymes thread and the poetry thread and then later on i started exploring but that was what mainly interested me in the beginning..and there is alotta shortcuts used there