MSN Messenger

I wouldn't call myself a MSN Messenger Guru, I've retired already.

The days of HP was the good old times where I try to explore all the possibilities of Messenger. I've quitted to collect all the funny Display Pictures and funny Emoticons already.

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But it still tinkles my nerve whenever someone refers MSN Messenger as MSN.

"MSN" stands for Microsoft Network.

Messenger, short for "MSN Messenger", is an instant messaging client for Windows.

Messenger is a part of MSN, that's why it's full official name is "MSN Messenger". However, since Messenger is so popular nowadays, many people, when they mention MSN, they are often referring to the Messenger.

I believe everyone have heard sentences like these:

"My MSN is acting weird.", "I'm quitting MSN", "You know, MSN 7.5 is coming out."... and so on and so forth. Now you all know how these sentences are not making much sense.

And hearing not-making-sense-sentences is just... err... irritating...

Please, it's Messenger, or if you want to type short, type msger. MSN Messenger does not equal to MSN...

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Anyways, if you consider the evolutionary nature of language, this is nothing serious. Common mistakes will finally replace the correct terms. And when everyone's wrong, everyone's right.

This is just me bored out in the library and want to spit some junks outta of my guts.

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Disclaimer:

I've wanted to say this for a long long time, this post contains no personal opinions to anyone who've mis-used these terms. I myself probably have probably made thousands of mistakes by now.