Peeps: You'll be LTS, LOL, LMAO, ROTF, ROFL, ROTFLMAO

This is actually part of the syllabus for one of my courses. I love it!

Dear student in my course,

I am your instructor. I am not your BFF. I do not WTGP? with you. I'm sorry if that makes you :-( IRL, when you write emails using poor grammar, sentence structure, and include only minimal amounts of information, it makes me >:-||

IMHO (and this is JMO), I have NP using this type of slang in a chat room, like a virtual classroom. It's a quick and easy way to communicate in a fast paced environment, and sometimes typing a whole phrase is much slower than slang. LOL, I get it.

But OMG, if I receive another email from peeps that shows what a noob you are in the professional world, where you don't clearly tell me who you are, what class section you are in, that has a vague or non-existent subject line, and no background information -- that makes me write back to you just to find out WT? you are talking about, I'm going to scream.

Writing to your PPL on FB is different that writing a letter to your instructor. PLZ take the time to get used to constructing professional emails for folks in RL. It will help avoid a SNAFU in the future, I promise. TC, TTYL, and TIA.

TNT, L8r -- Your Instructor.

NOTE: Click here if you need an Internet slang glossary to understand this letter. (I did)