An ongoing series by Persuasion’s Mary Musgrove
If wishes were Smartphones,
beggars could TEXT!
It is most annoying, living in a Regency world. If I could only text, how delightful life would be!
I’d use all the charming abbreviations to tell friends and family exactly what I think.
Aren’t these expressions deliciously apt?
• RHIP (Rank Has Its Privileges)
• ICEDI (I Can’t Even Discuss It)
• 4COL (For Crying Out Loud)
• PMFI (Pardon Me For Interrupting)
• BPLM (Big Person Little Mind)
• APAC (All Praise And Credit)
• EMFBI (Excuse Me For Butting In)
• CWOT (Complete Waste Of Time)
• YGTBK (You’ve Got To Be Kidding)
• BFFN (Best Friends For Now)
• AYDY (Are You Done Yet?)
• BOOMS (Bored Out Of My Skull)
• DITYID (Did I Tell You I’m Distressed?)
• AYTMTB (And You’re Telling Me This Because)
• GWHTLC (Glad We Had This Little Chat)
As you can see, Less is most definitely More!
Most cordially,
Mary Elliot Musgrove, SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed)
Daughter of Sir Walter Elliot, Bart.
Future Mistress of Uppercross
LOL, SWAMBO. I have a Mary Englebreight magnet that says, It Is Good To Be Queen. A woman needs remind the world of both these sentiments..
Susan Kaye, SWAMBO, IIGTBQ
AYTMTB, Susan Kaye?
When we take that road trip, remember: SWHTSWRTR (She Who Holds The Steering Wheel Rules The Road). That would be me. Ha.
CAN — Call Anne NOW!
CYKTBF — Can You Keep the Boys FOREVER?
MYLN — Must You Leave Now?
TMTB — Take Me To Bath
APMG — Anne’s Pain, My Gain
@LL, no idea what AYTMTB is.
Sir Walter and Elizabeth have NUFA – No Use For Anne
GBBTAD – Gold Braid Beats Titles Any Day
HAHO — Half Agony Half Hope
Oh, now that would be a fun exercise: Wentworth’s letter in text code. LOL
I enjoyed this. Problem is I can’t recall what the abbreviations stand for in order to use them…..
I hear you loud and clear, Suzan! (IHYLAC)
It’s painfully easy to mix up stuff! And then, not wanting to admit that my memory is so bad, my pride nudges me into guessing. We don’t want to go there!
Good thing pen and paper were handy, and that Captaiin Wentworth didn’t TEXT his letter to Anne!
ICLNLIS. IMS2U BYSM AAWMR. YPMC. IM 1/2A1/2H. TMNT IM2L8 …
“YPMC? His poor mind is so altered I would not have known him”
(I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late…)
ROTFLMBO.
Rolling on the floor, laughing my butt off. (This is the G version.)
Gayle, you’re a genius.
Here I am thinking that I have to go to the gym to get my butt off. And all I need to do is laugh?
Well, that and roll. On the floor. I’m supposing that would be, in my case, a daily event. A long daily event.
Good point. Laughing doesn’t exercise the butt.
Or it shouldn’t!
Haha you ladies crack me up! (LOL YLCMU)
IAMSD. IAQPO!