New AP Stylebook Hip to Social Media
The Associated Press has released an updated Stylebook, further refining the news industry’s guidelines for grammar, punctuation and reporting practices.
In a sign of the times, this newest edition addresses social media with 42 entries about terms such as app, blog, avatar and RSS. There’s also a segment dedicated to Facebook and related actions, including fan, friend and unfriend.
And ever the hipsters, IM, Googled and Mashup – terms already widely used — are now ‘officially’ recognized by the AP.
But no longer just for the media industry, parents can now turn to the Stylebook to decode the befuddling language so popular with their children. Sadly, many of these have become regular staples in our adult dialogue as well:
BFF – Best Friend Forever
C – See You Later
LOL – Laugh Out Loud
ROFL – Rolling On Floor Laughing
And a few more worth adding to the lexicon:
BRB – Be Right Back
G2G – Got To Go
IDK – I Don’t Know
NSFW – Not Safe For Work
Find the new AP Stylebook online here.
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