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Good afternoon everybody. I'm here to announce that MetroChat/Maggie Mash's WORDS-o-PLENTY is now open until the 2nd January, should anyone wish to chat.

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Well I think you're on twice the power trip Metrotwitter was, replacing all instances of Christmas with Maggiemas!

Took me a couple of readings to work out that it'd been changed.

Anyway, that's not half as bad as Asa, who won't tolerate 'x m a s', and changes it to 'c h r i s t m a s'!

Jovis wrote:Took me a couple of readings to work out that it'd been changed.

Anyway, that's not half as bad as Asa, who won't tolerate 'x m a s', and changes it to 'c h r i s t m a s'!

Honestly, is that so bad? I don't see the need to have it saying 'X m a s' instead of 'C h r i s t m a s' - the word was created as a shortened version and is seen as txt talk so Asa is trying to be helpful by changing it automatically.

It's not ruddy text speak. That'd be xms

Whilst watching Victorian Farm Christmas the other day, I noticed a Victorian magazine was branded an "X-mas Edition" so not an entirely new thing.

Philip wrote:

Jovis wrote:Took me a couple of readings to work out that it'd been changed.

Anyway, that's not half as bad as Asa, who won't tolerate 'x m a s', and changes it to 'c h r i s t m a s'!

Honestly, is that so bad? I don't see the need to have it saying 'X m a s' instead of 'C h r i s t m a s' - the word was created as a shortened version and is seen as txt talk so Asa is trying to be helpful by changing it automatically.

Yep, just to re-iterate, I WAS being ENTIRELY serious.

Jovis wrote:

Philip wrote:

Jovis wrote:Took me a couple of readings to work out that it'd been changed.

Anyway, that's not half as bad as Asa, who won't tolerate 'x m a s', and changes it to 'c h r i s t m a s'!

Honestly, is that so bad? I don't see the need to have it saying 'X m a s' instead of 'C h r i s t m a s' - the word was created as a shortened version and is seen as txt talk so Asa is trying to be helpful by changing it automatically.

Yep, just to re-iterate, I WAS being ENTIRELY serious.

Yes, because if you weren't being serious, you would use emotions. Just to re-iterate.

I see no problem with changing X M a s to C h r i s t m a s and no problem with Christmas either.