Most of my friends are familiar with the acronyms and personalised shorthand that litter my texts. It's not that I'm lazy, and I'm certainly not a lover of txtspk, but there are times when there just isn't time to punch the whole thing out in longhand.So when a friend texted me yesterday that The Wave Pictures are playing their local venue next month and would we like to come over and stop the night and that they've bought a new house I just replied with my usual EMBV.
EMBV, 'Excellent' in a Mr. Burns voice, is the perfect response to so many of the text messages I receive.
But I obviously hadn't used this on Suzie and Liam before.
'I'm sorry, I don't understand' came the reply. 'We've even looked up EMBV and it said estimated mucosal blood volume, and I don't think you meant that.'
I shall claim EMBV as my own invention with immediate effect.
ReplyDeleteFYB.
DeleteI love that. EMBV. Perhaps we could try to get it into common parlance, along with snazzy?
ReplyDeleteI feel an alternative dictionary coming on.
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