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By – Obsession
It’s that time of year, when geeks from all over emerge from the musty darkness of their parents’ basement and gather together at the San Diego Convention Centre. To the uninitiated, the convention centre played host to a myriad of monsters and aliens last weekend, but we geeks can differentiate at a glance the trekies, whonatics, galatica fans, star wars fans and well, the fans of any kind of science fiction series there are.
The way people talk and express themselves has always held a certain curious appeal to me. Undoubtedly, how we speak inevitably changes as we age, and is also influenced by our surroundings. With SMSing being a crucial mode of communication for many of us today, there is a well-documented rise of the use of abbreviations within our textual conversations. Short-forms such as ‘Lol’ or ‘Brb’ are widely used together with the frequent use of emoticons.