ppl
UG先生より教えていただいた記事からです。次の大統領総選挙に立候補しているドナルド・トランプ氏が「イスラム教徒の全面入国禁止」を訴えたことで話題となっています。
Donald Trump Deflects Withering Fire on Muslim Plan
Repudiated across much of the political spectrum but defended on conservative talk radio, Donald J. Trump on Tuesday stood by his call to block all Muslims from entering the United States. He cast it as a temporary move in response to terrorism and invoked President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s authorization of the detention of Japanese, German and Italian immigrants during World War II as precedent.
Critics including both the House speaker, Paul D. Ryan, a Republican, and the Senate minority leader, Harry Reid, a Democrat, assailed Mr. Trump’s proposal as self-defeating and un-American.
“Tell Donald Trump: Hate is not an American value,” Hillary Clinton wrote on Twitter. The “super PAC” supporting Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, unveiled its first ad attacking Mr. Trump, and the White House said Mr. Trump had disqualified himself from serving as president.
But the castigation was far from unanimous: Mr. Trump was applauded by some conservative commentators, who said he reflected the electorate’s views more honestly than the party’s leaders. “Anyone who thinks @realDonaldTrump comments will hurt him don’t know the temperature of the American ppl,” the radio host Laura Ingraham wrote on Twitter.
"ppl"はpeopleの略語でTwitterやメールなどで使われる表記だということがわかりました。さらに調べてみると、他にpeepsという表現もpeopleの略語で用いられ、友達や親しい人たちの間で使われていることがわかりました。Peepsは手持ちの辞書にものっていましたがpplの略はまだ記載がなかったので、つい最近にできた形ではないかと思います。(lua)
