How often do you use abbreviations intead of full words on italki? Personally I do not use use them very often, except in chat conversations. I often use abbreviations and 'sounds of words' for two reasons. First, to be quick I suppose a friend will not wait too long til you write your idea in full letters. Second, during conversations we have the opportunity to clarify what we meant by that cluster of consonants or this chunk of sounds that is not understood because, you know, abbreviations are mostly personal i.e (that is to say) not common to all people. "i.e" is a very common and often used abbreviation Don't forget my main question: How often do you use abbreviations on italki? ;)

Research proposal... Hi everybody, I'm preparing my research proposal and I want your help to check and refine my introduction, please.. ( Because we cdan't investigate the human language directly, the theories and principles devised are debatable.Thus, research in this area should be ongoing. Besides, reading is an aspect of language that is still subject of research and debate. Reading is a cognitive process that involves different stages to reach a product, that is text understanding. In this context I introduce my thesis. ) thanks in advance..

What do you think... Hi everybody, I found an idea for my thesis, what do you think?? It's about cognitive processing, particularly reading.. what..bad????...good...???? If it's a good idea, what may be my research instruments? I thought about tests.. veeeeeeeeeeeery grateful (thank u so much Jura,single, roi q, norman for your proposals) a final remark: please don't hesitate to correct any mistake in the text of my Qs, sometimes I feel I have a problem of prepositions

topics again.. hi everybody.... I'm still looking for a topic to work on in my Master thesis. I'm interested in language processing.. can you help

topic of a research.. Hi everybody, how r youuuuuuu? I hope fine..I recently passed my Master exams thanks be to God.. now I am looking for a good topic to my thesis, can you help me? My speciality is Linguistics.. Thanks in advance

apologizing... Is apologizing degrading? Is it a sing of weakness??? What do you think..

hiiii.. I can't find the posted questions?

zero!!!!! Have you ever got a zero in an exam? what was your feeling like?

standard vs sms language Don't you worry about your standard language from being perverted or 'invasion' of the language of SMS? For example, here in Tunisia we use in sms writings symbols and different languages (french, english), abbreviations, and even different alphabetical system (express in arabic but use latin alphabets; arabic words and sounds written with latil alphabets) All of this to get a 1 page sms and so less money paid) Doesn't this threatens the Arabic or any other language's features of loss and fading? What about other languages? What do you think?