You're dead right Detlef:- I do not engage in social media at any level, unless we regard this Forum or emails as social media, which I do not.
As for Indonesian social media messages?
No thank you very much.
I think David is right by identifying these abbreviations as a generational thing rather than as linguistic variation that applies to universal linguistic intercourse.
Re the Google translate thing David. Its not only Indonesian that it does funny things with, it is other languages as well, for instance Italian, Ukranian, Russian. Its OK on single words, but give a slab of text you do see some pretty funny things.
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