{"id":977,"date":"2003-03-04T03:32:57","date_gmt":"2003-03-04T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/04\/ilny-its-a-gr8-plc\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:51:05","slug":"ilny-its-a-gr8-plc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/04\/ilny-its-a-gr8-plc\/","title":{"rendered":"ILNY, it&#039;s a gr8 plc."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15170,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.co.uk\\\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RMRFQF0W1GTWMCRBAEOCFEY?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2312850&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.reuters.com?edition-redirect=uk&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Following up on an issue from <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/nu_shortcuts_in.html\" title=\"Nu shortcuts in school R 2 much 4 teachers\">last September<\/a>, a teacher in London is reported as having received an essay that they couldn&#8217;t read, because of the student&#8217;s use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.co.uk\/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=RMRFQF0W1GTWMCRBAEOCFEY?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2312850\" title=\"Girl baffles teacher with SMS essay\">text messaging acronyms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The teenager&#8217;s essay which caused the problem began:<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro, his GF &amp; thr 3 :-O kids FTF. ILNY, it&#8217;s a gr8 plc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  In translation:<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;My summer holidays were a complete waste of time. Before, we used to go to New York to see my brother, his girlfriend and their three screaming kids face to face. I love New York. It&#8217;s a great place.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My smmr hols wr CWOT. B4, we used 2go2 NY 2C my bro,  his GF &amp; thr 3 :-O kids FTF. ILNY, it&#8217;s a gr8 plc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}