Yesterday over at Comment is Free, the writer and recent Science Weekly guest Ariane Sherine took the time to have a pop at the linguistic deviants who are destroying the world by using (cue dramatic music) teh internet speak.
OMG, IMHO and the ubiquitous ROFLMAO now litter the world's inboxes, baffling anyone with the sense not to learn what they mean, and giving false hope to singles everywhere who think LOL stands for "lots of love". And, like a computer virus, they're proliferating: in the apocalyptic future, people will be able to write whole emails using these things, communicating like two fax machines and rendering words obsolete.
She probably wouldn't want to see this TED talk by the poet/storyteller Rives which, while I can't decide whether it's insufferably lame or actually a little cute, would definitely get filed under punctuationally perverse.
