I’m a bit disappointed that the above has slinked it’s way into my daily vocabulary. I’ve been a bit resistant to these internet neologisms for awhile1. Twice today it’s come up while I’ve been talking to myself thinking, which I think is a bit much. I wasn’t even sitting at a computer either time. zomg.
I used the truncation of words pretty heavily as a kid, along with never capitalizing anything and omitting nearly every requisite punctuator from my online talk, but kicked the habit hard and fast. It’s been years, and now I think they’re creeping back. But at least it’s with a holier than thou penchant for cynicism this time.
1 Times the following have appeared in all of this site: omg: 0, lol: 0, wtf: 1. And that’s in ~three years.
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