thx or tnx

Kouji_San

<div class="IPBDescription">going even more off-topic then usual</div>This has been bothering me for quite some time now. I see a lot of people using thx as thanks, since most people use this, I guess it's the correct one. However it still is quite strange IMHO, since the emphasis clearly lies with the "n" when pronouncing it. This is also the reason I use tnx, it looks and sounds more natural. So howcome most people use thx...


Am I missing something here <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" />

Liku

I've grown accustomed to "thx," because it has TH and I think of the sound, without it "tnx" reminds me of "tanks."

Spell it out and there's no confusion! Woo.

enf0rcer

seriously - I prefer using "thanks"

The most I'll abbreviate to is : thnx

eediot

tx2ullw/ugtsmt2sy2m??

sawce

I would assume 'thx' looks more natural, but... if you can't even spell out the entire six letters of the word I don't think you're really that thankful.

Ratonetwothreetwoone

what happened to good old "ty"

tyvm even!

Mantrid

What happened to spelling out the damn word?

thx
thanks

Sure, its twice as long... but if you're a gamer, or anyone who uses a computer a lot, your typing speed should be somewhere between 40-60 WPM. Whats your hurry?

Kouji_San

People tend to shorten words even if they can type the whole word almost as fast, human nature?

Didn't imagin so many folks had so many opinions about this <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

DrSuredeath

Yeah, you saved like a whopping 3 letters by using thx over thanks.

Similarly, I used haha over lol. And what's the deal with people pronouncing 'nub' and 'l-o-l' literally?

Zig

i abbreviate during fast-paced gameplay.

i usually use 'tx' if i'm in a hurry.

Mantrid

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Yeah, you saved like a whopping 3 letters by using thx over thanks.

Similarly, I used haha over lol. And what's the deal with people pronouncing 'nub' and 'l-o-l' literally?
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Well, if I use "lol" in real life, its usually to be ironic, or something. And usually I use it as a noun, rather than using it in place of laughter. And I pronounce it "lulz".

Zig

the LULZ is completely different from simple "lol".

Lt_Patch

On the subject to games, the strangest thing in the world is being called a "nublet" by the chef, who has never played a video game in her life, she just picked it up from another managers kids <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/confused-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="???" border="0" alt="confused-fix.gif" />

But yeah, thx is usually accepted as 'thanks' in online gaming, especially console RPGs, where it's hard to tpye on the on screen keyboard...

Depot

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[...]Sure, its twice as long... but if you're a gamer, or anyone who uses a computer a lot, your typing speed should be somewhere between 40-60 WPM. Whats your hurry?
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<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> - to funny. I don't think so.

But yeah, tnx would work great for tanks.

Geminosity

only abbreviations I really use on a regular basis that I can think of are 'lol', 'dmg' and 'np'. I use 'np' because I'm usually running while I say it, dmg I use because it's usually in a message that's going to be long and I want to save characters so it'll fit on one line and 'lol' is just out of habit because I think 'hehe' or it's kin look silly :p

Other than those I type so insanely fast I don't see any reason not to use full words. I was once chatting to someone on Phantasy Star Online when this other player comes up, stands in silence for a bit and then goes "wow!!!". We both asked him what was up and he excitedly exclaimed "how do you guys type so fast?"... it was about then I realised we'd been chatting at such a rate it was almost real-time; as in the conversation was easily the speed it would've been if we'd been using voice without any of those lil silences you sometimes get in text chat while someone types out a response or is still reading what you said :o

lolfighter

I've almost completely stopped using "SMS-speak" (and I've never even sent an SMS in my life) in games, in IRC, in instant messengers, and particularly in forums. cu, l8r, thx, lfg, w8, brb, bbl, bbiab, bbiabjhttot (that's "be back in a bit just have to take out trash"), cya2moro, y, r, u, I just can't stand 'em anymore. Why? Because sentences written with amputated words like that look like piss, and smell worse. The novelty of "look, we can butcher the english language and STILL understand it" wore off years ago. It's kinda like "look, we can smash this car up and still recognize that it was once shiny and expensive!" You're still left with a broken and destroyed language or car that nobody in their right mind wants.

Me, I love myself a real sentence. In actual english. Something that people would have understood fifty years ago, instead of just shaking their head at what would appear like a random jumble of letters and numbers to them. Capital letters (gasp), punctuation (what's that?), those are forgotten arts, but not lost, not to me. I bet that when people play MMOs with me, they think I'm an NPC because I write like they do (look, it reacts like us, it moves like us, it fights like us, it's like us in every way! But it writes like THEM! Man, the AI in these games is CRAZY!).

Call me a snob if you have to. But my english is still better than yours. I'm the modern gentleman, the gentlegamer. I will walk, but never run.

eediot

You appear to be in the habit of creating a lot of sentence fragments and other bad grammar.

lolfighter

Just like Douglas Adams.

DrSuredeath

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Well, if I use "lol" in real life, its usually to be ironic, or something. And usually I use it as a noun, rather than using it in place of laughter. And I pronounce it "lulz".
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<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/loll" target="_blank">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/loll</a>

pardzh

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lolz sn0b

Femme_Fatale

Ta or Ty/Tyvm <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Svenpa

In Dark Messiah I just shout "AYE!" with the in-game voice command since I cannot find one for thanks. Trying to type something while stressed is useless.

"I need healing!"
*get's healed*
"tbankd!"

Anyone have suggestion how to type better without looking? I've tried to not look but I never get any better by it.

chubbysteve

For a second I thought you were actually thankful for something Kouji. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

Abbreviations: I refuse to shorten laugh out loud. Playing NS, shortenings can be useful. But if I was in a forum like this one, well... I'm spending time browsing so I'll spend time typing properly.

I also take the piss. 'OMGWTHSTFU j00HaxRTFMhaxhaXureded!!11joneone' is a common response if someone accuses me of cheating, for example.

DiscoZombie

I mostly speak in the Queen's Englishe, but I overuse some internetisms. I use this =p face too much. when I abbreviate 'thanks', it's usually 'thx'. I should start saying 'thicks' to add an extra layer of irony.

I also love the semicolon; it's a totally underappreciated punctuation mark.

Lofung

in my 7 years life on internet i have seen nobody using tnx omg?

TychoCelchuuu

I use thnx because it's the best of both worlds, but if I had to choose I'd go with thx. The "th" sound in thanks is the most important aspect, not the "n."

Johnie

I allways use cheers or ty.
It just sounds better to me. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

Kouji_San

Hmm, so if a battlefield commander would recieve some tanks. He could SMS the field commander with something like this:

Yo m8, thx 4 the tnx...

I think it's settled <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />


On a side note, the weirdest internet term I've ever had thrown at me was roflolstgooib. I get the first part roflol, but the rest was like (o.o" hmmkay) It was then explained to me as:

rolling on the floor laughing out loud scaring the goldfish out of its bowl

I've since then never seen it again after this dude came up with it...

ZeroByte

When I saw this topic I thought it was about the THX sound system and a competitor called TNX. I abbreviate thanks to thnx myself. I'm not quite sure why I even bother since I only save 2 letters. I don't see anything too bad about using abbreviations on IRC/ingame/SMS as long as they aren't overused and are appropriate, I.E. the reciepient of the message is able to understand what the heck you're trying to say. IRC and SMS are casual methods of communication, I don't feel you need to be so anal about it as with formal communication.

Geminosity

sven, if you want to learn touchtyping I recommend "typing of the dead". You learn to type or they eat your brains :p

Chrono

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People tend to shorten words even if they can type the whole word almost as fast, human nature?

Didn't imagin so many folks had so many opinions about this <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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its even worse in the military. EVERYTHING is abbreviated