Slightly silly question. /nt or n/t ?

[Rabblevox]

I've seen both used a lot here, and while I use /nt (/no text) I see many others use n/t.

Now I know this is a deep and burning concern for many, far eclipsing petty concerns like nukes and Baggers, and vote fraud and war and famine, so give me your passionate, inspired answers. (Hopefully including either wonk-speak or English-major babble).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I've used both; I don't think it really matters which one you use...

What really frosts me is when it gets placed down here, in the body of the message!

Grrr...

It belongs in the subject line, people!

[blogslut]

3. And that is why I stopped using it altogether. I just leave the message box blank now.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. That works too!

[City Lights]

6. That gets me, too! Totally defeats the purpose! eom

[Davis_X_Machina]

2. Old newspaper types just write '30' n/t

[Rabblevox]

8. Actually, no. Old newspaper types (and I is one) use -30- to signify the end of a story...

and "No 30" to indicate more to follow. The "30" thing came from telegraph operators. X marked the end of a sentence, XX the end of a paragraph, and XXX the end of message. Hence 30.

[OnyxCollie]

4. I wear action trunks. nt

[Rabblevox]

14. TMI /nt

[City Lights]

5. I use "nt" or "eom." eom

[dtexdem]

9. /na

no answer from me

;-)

[VWolf]

10. I use /nt exclusively n/t

[DaveJ]

11. Why the preference for Wonk or English babble?

I actually never heard these terms before. Are there other forms of language that are classified like that?

[Rabblevox]

13. English-Major babble is a phrase I heard in college, wonk-speak I might have made up...

Mainly I was just doing my small part to try to lighten the load, things have been too unrelentingly serious here lately.

[RC]

12. DU is the only place I remember seeing n/t nt /nt or eom used.

nmta
(Nothing more to add)

[Goblinmonger]

16. We use eom in our emails here at work.

I teach in a high school. Sometime you just want to send a quick sentence to somebody so you just put it in the subject, put eom at the end, and they know they don't have to open it and they can just delete it.

[Rex]

15. /na

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