I detest abbreviations and diminutives in general, although I use "board" in a keyboard forum without fear that it will be misinterpreted. I believe that precision and consistency in language is vital to good communication, and "insider slang" and clannishness are particularly irritating to people outside the bubble.
On a similar theme, personal pronouns are absurdly overused these days, and that leads to enormous confusion.
I detest abbreviations overload too but I browse the forum when I procrastinate from m assignments so I tend to use "mkb, "board," and "mech" for "mechanical keyboard" because they give me the illusion of saving time. (I wish.)
I don't use and don't like "keeb" because I figured it's supposed to sound like "keyboard" (
) but I don't hear the kinship between the two words so I refrain from using it. Maybe it's a non-native speaker thing, I don't know, I'll leave the native speakers to it.
About personal pronouns, I don't know if you're referring to my writing, I don't remember discussing anything with out but it's possible, so I'll just say that personal pronouns must be overused in academic writing so I sometimes forget where I'm writing and tend to go all academic style on the Internet.
I know it's repetitive and maybe annoying after a few lines but I can't go from full academy to full "yo fam" style very easily. If you weren't referring to my writing style, feel free to ignore this.
