Have a nice day!

[BobK]

Originally Posted by Humble

... And does it all refer to Good day only, or Have a good day, too?

Only to "Good day" - with one tiny (almost insignificant) exception. Someone might say "Have a good day" (in a strongly sarcastic tone of voice) if it was obvious that the day wouldn't be good (for example, you know those cowboy films when the villain leaves the hero in the desert without any water - except, being American, he'd say 'nice' of course!)

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[Lenka]

Originally Posted by Philly

Hi Lenka
There are probably plenty of Americans who find many of these things annoying, too. I have a special aversion to reading "pls". It seems to me that if someone finds "please" too much trouble to write, then they might as well just leave it out completely. To me personally, using "pls" doesn't seem polite; it just looks lazy and insincere.
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The worst thing is the fact that not only people in the USA and other English speaking countries use it. I don't like those abbreviations too much, anyway, I wouldn't mind them that much if they were in Czech.

By the way, I hate the more and more "common" usage of "u" (you). I don't understand why some people really do use it. I've even seen it in a handwriting... I mean not only on the chatting programms and so on. And it looks so terrible, in my opinion!

[westwind]

To Philly and Lenka,

I couldn't agree more - these so-called computer/Web speak/slang is definitely not suitable for formal writing. However, many of us don't seem to have a clue about the proper writing etiquette when the occasion arises. I'm wondering whether they would accept such words used in school tests/exams. I've noticed that many people nowdays have below-par language skills, i.e. wrong words in context, misplaced/missing punctuation, misspellings, after graduation. In any case, I chalk all these up to the inexperienced and poor-quality teachers in our schools today--a growing problem indeed!

[westwind]

To Philly and Lenka,

I couldn't agree more - these so-called computer/Web speak/slang is definitely not suitable for formal writing. However, many of us don't seem to have a clue about the proper writing etiquette when the occasion arises. I'm wondering whether they would accept such words used in school tests/exams. I've noticed that many people nowdays have below-par language skills, i.e. wrong words in context, misplaced/missing punctuation, misspellings, after graduation. In any case, I chalk all these up to the inexperienced and poor-quality teachers in our schools today--a growing problem indeed!