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David Pogue, on the Alleged Origin of 'Online Shorthand'
by possibly noteworthy at 8:01 pm EDT, Sep 3, 2007

Online shorthand like this arose, of course, because it's so hard to type full English words on a cellphone's number keypad.

Uh huh. Right.

Among the new ones he offers:

* WLF -- with the lady friend
* SIK -- sorry, iPhone keyboard