I don't think abbreviations show sloppiness with the language, they just show a wish to get one's thoughts and ideas out quickly. Tolkien used abbreviations, and he loved language.
Oh, and one more thing, I personally don't see anything wrong with using elfs (don't know whether this has been discussed yet (didn't have time to read three pages on grammatical and spelling mistakes)) as a plural of elf. Elfs was the plural before elves. It's only within the last hundred years or so that elves has been the plural. And while I'm on the topic of plurals, whenever we talk of mythological dwarfs, dwarves is incorrect. Dwarves is typically the plural for little person, while dwarfs is the plural for mystical creature dwarfs.
[ October 18, 2002: Message edited by: Eldar14 ]
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