If you've been joining in chat room conversation, or trading e-mail with Web pals, you hav

e became one of the millions who write in a special short form. of English.

And you've got a sense of humor about short forms like SOHF(= sense of humor failure)to describe Internet new comers who understand you. Across the globe, every night teenagers and their elders are "talking" online — many of them all talking at the same time.

It's fast try talking to six people at once. It's brief three or four words per exchange. It takes wit (诙谐), and quick fingers.

Want to enter a conversation？ Just type PMFJI(= pardon me for jumping in).

Interested in whom you're talking to？ A/S/L, the nearly universal request to know your pal's age, sex and location. You may get 15/M/NY as a response from your pal.

If something makes you laugh, say you're OTF (= on the floor), or LOL (= laughing out loud, or combine the two into ROTFL(= rolling on the floor laughing).

And when it's time to get back to work or go to bed, you type GTG(got to go)or TYYL(=talk to you later). People want to write as fast as possible, and they want to get their ideas across as quickly as they can. Capital letters are left in the dust, except when expressing strong feeling, as it takes more time to hold down the "shift" key and use capitals. Punctuation (标点) is going, too.

In order to talk to several people at the same time on the Internet,______.

A．you have to speak fast and fluently

B．you should speak with wit and humor

C．one should pay much attention to the use of exact words

D．you have to express your ideas in a brief way