IIRC, KWIM, AFAIK, and all those really confused me at first, but now seem so common.
ACK!! I don't even know what the first two are! I'm hoping that AFAIK is "As far as I know," but I suppose it could be just about anything. Sheesh. Then again, not everybody types as fast as I do. I remember taking pride while in TORn's chatroom about never using abbreviations like that because I could type fast enough, and I just couldn't stand the acronyms. :P
Don't worry about the mini-rant. I meant to somehow indicate that Canada is officially bilingual, but couldn't figure out how to write that out. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to have forced bilingualism in a province in which so few people speak one of the languages, you're right. As a child, though, I just couldn't get over the grape Bubble-Yum packs with English and French. They were just *so cool* at the time. I suppose I've always had a secret love for Canada, especially BC and... oh, bugger. The province with Lake Louise. Such gorgeous country, even from someone who had lived in Washington state.
But that's MHO. ;)
((huggles one of her Canadian friends and is green with envy that she lives in "Beautiful British Columbia"))
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ACK!! I don't even know what the first two are! I'm hoping that AFAIK is "As far as I know," but I suppose it could be just about anything. Sheesh. Then again, not everybody types as fast as I do. I remember taking pride while in TORn's chatroom about never using abbreviations like that because I could type fast enough, and I just couldn't stand the acronyms. :P
Don't worry about the mini-rant. I meant to somehow indicate that Canada is officially bilingual, but couldn't figure out how to write that out. It doesn't seem to make a whole lot of sense to have forced bilingualism in a province in which so few people speak one of the languages, you're right. As a child, though, I just couldn't get over the grape Bubble-Yum packs with English and French. They were just *so cool* at the time. I suppose I've always had a secret love for Canada, especially BC and... oh, bugger. The province with Lake Louise. Such gorgeous country, even from someone who had lived in Washington state.
But that's MHO. ;)
((huggles one of her Canadian friends and is green with envy that she lives in "Beautiful British Columbia"))