>From: zxcvbob

>I suspect "prolly" comes to us from text messaging and chat
>room shorthand, (which I don't do, but I assume typing speed and message
>brevity are important) and it spilled over into usenet.

Yeah. That's where I first saw prolly. Back on IRC, oh, I guess in late 95,
early 96. We would have Sunday Night Tsunami's (very fast exchanges of WAVs) on
one particular channel I hung out at, and typespeak became a fast way to
communicate, though crudely.

Despised kewl though. Oh, and the Loose for Lose, ARGH.....that drives me
bonkers!

Ellen