Eh! I am a native English speaker and been resident in England for some six decades and I can honestly say I have never ever seen 'something' abbreviated as you describe.
To me it us unintelligible and smacks of 'text speak' which is a no no in this forum.
If people want to ask questions in this forum they should at least have the courtesy to attempt to write in clear unabbreviated English for the very reason that this has cropped up.
Regards
I am also interested in concise writing understandable to all readers but I have never seen in my life such abbreviations and I read in English more than in my native languageDear Richard1,
I meant to make the title concise so that other posters could get what the question was from the title itself. Well, I'm a nonnative speaker, and in some texts on grammar I've seen the abbreviated forms of Sb and Sth standing for Somebody and Something. However, I'll take your words and won't use the abbreviated forms any longer. :up:
Thank you again.
I use dictionaries in my everyday work but I have never seen sth there.sb (somebody) and sth (something) are very common abbreviations in dictionaries and grammar books; I am surprised that some people have never seen them.
It is probably better not to use them in the body of a message in this forum, but I see no problem with using them in the title.
It is a surprise to me that there are those who use dictionaries regularly and yet have not seen this.:-o