text message abbreviations used in speech!

[Baker, John]

        My eighth grade teacher used "KISS" in 1973.  He said he had learned it in the Marines.

John Baker


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From: Charles Wells [mailto:charles at FREUDE.COM]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 2:01 PM
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Subject: Re: text message abbreviations used in speech!


KISS has been around at least ten years.  It is in

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/jargon.html

and also in the book The New Hacker's Dictionary mentioned therein.