LIK OMG! WTF TTYL NFW LOL ROFL ROFL ROFL

English language where art thou? Hank Moody said it best when he said things, not words, like LOL and OMG...etc. are leading to the butchering of the english language. I can understand the need to abbreviate when you are texting on your phone, but when this flows into the conversations when we talk face to face that's when I have a problem. You are not paying per letter to talk to me, abbreviating won't do you any good and it only makes me think that I am talking to someone who lives and breathes texting. Now my problem extends to things like LOL, half the time when people use that "thing," for lack of a better word, I cringe a little, because I know you are not laughing out loud, it's not really adding to the conversation it's working as filler because the person had nothing better to say. So using these things don't do anything except give the person on the other side the wrong idea and at the same time, they already are a little blinded by the fact that they can't see when you're talking.