Newspeak, Volume 2

I have at times been known to speak chat in the real world - I'll slip "IMHO" into a conversation, for example, or "lawl." It confuses my fuddyduddy parents to no end, but oddly enough some of my coworkers understand how much I am made of win (or pwn, depending on the situation), and...well, they "get it." They're mostly in their 20s, part of a new breed as it were, and...

Well, nuts. I'm rambling.

At any rate, Kirsten hates it when I do that, although I've recently caught her slipping an "IMO" into the conversation, too.

She needn't worry. It's a perfectly cromulent form of expression now.