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Dear Mr. Newton,
Your blood test results have come back. Thyroid function is normal.
Pls continue your current thyroid medication.
I have just about come to terms with the fact that my thyroid gland decided it was fed up with life about halfway through fourth year of university, and the way that I now have to pay $10 a month for double-arrow-shaped enthusiasm pills that prevent me from turning into a dormouse, but it's a completely different feature of this letter that stood out to me. You'll know what it is. I would not for a moment have expected my new doctor (who is about 40, the most Russian woman in the world and wouldn't look out of place in one of the early Bond films) to have used "Pls".
Frankly, it's frightening how the Internet-speak that started almost legitimately with Morse telegraphers, then was eventually brought into the mainstream by AOL opening the Internet to a tidal wave of idiots worldwide, is now invading everything. My exposure to it has thankfully been limited since leaving the Academy and the majority of the GameFAQs forums, but students are now allowed to use textspeak in exams in New Zealand, and (this is actually hilarious, I came across it when looking for the last link) it's obviously a threat to society as we know it. I know there are many forms of abbreviated language and I'm lumping them all in together here, but I don't think any of them have any place on that letter.
"Pls continue the medication you have ATM. AFAIK your thyroid is underactive, but TBH it's better than having SARS. ROFLMAO!"
Your blood test results have come back. Thyroid function is normal.
Pls continue your current thyroid medication.
I have just about come to terms with the fact that my thyroid gland decided it was fed up with life about halfway through fourth year of university, and the way that I now have to pay $10 a month for double-arrow-shaped enthusiasm pills that prevent me from turning into a dormouse, but it's a completely different feature of this letter that stood out to me. You'll know what it is. I would not for a moment have expected my new doctor (who is about 40, the most Russian woman in the world and wouldn't look out of place in one of the early Bond films) to have used "Pls".
Frankly, it's frightening how the Internet-speak that started almost legitimately with Morse telegraphers, then was eventually brought into the mainstream by AOL opening the Internet to a tidal wave of idiots worldwide, is now invading everything. My exposure to it has thankfully been limited since leaving the Academy and the majority of the GameFAQs forums, but students are now allowed to use textspeak in exams in New Zealand, and (this is actually hilarious, I came across it when looking for the last link) it's obviously a threat to society as we know it. I know there are many forms of abbreviated language and I'm lumping them all in together here, but I don't think any of them have any place on that letter.
"Pls continue the medication you have ATM. AFAIK your thyroid is underactive, but TBH it's better than having SARS. ROFLMAO!"
