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Don Boivin's avatar

Today an adult of my generation started a message with FWIW. That one took me a minute. (“for what it’s worth”)

It really is rather disruptive to a conversation when you have to go and Google an abbreviation!

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Sherry Taveras's avatar

Absolutely! I would have definitely needed to google that one! 😅

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Teri Leigh 💜's avatar

I figured it out, but it still interrupted my thought process.

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Sherry Taveras's avatar

😂Right!

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Sam Messersmith's avatar

I never remember this one!

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Teri Leigh 💜's avatar

I am believing you, and not wanting to believe you, and not willing to go look for myself...LOL and TMI are in the dictionary for over a decade? OMG!!!

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Sherry Taveras's avatar

Girl! 🤦🏾‍♀️😂

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Sam Messersmith's avatar

Right there with you

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MacFinnian Aisling Fíodóir's avatar

To be far our generation in chat rooms really lite a fire on this. I remember in school I had to stop using these because they were starting to show up in my papers. lol

FYI 🤪 acronyms have always been a part of our society before the kids got their hands on it. They were just used for medical and historical purposes like WW1.

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Sam Messersmith's avatar

You got me thinking about all the "accepted" acronyms like ER, ASAP, and my brain just stopped mid-sentence haha.

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MacFinnian Aisling Fíodóir's avatar

Mine did the same. lol

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Sherry Taveras's avatar

😂😂

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Sam Messersmith's avatar

Haha I am glad I am not alone in that.

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MacFinnian Aisling Fíodóir's avatar

I do have ADHD so it’s to be expected lol

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Alicia Joyful's avatar

Thank you for sharing this. I feel so seen and understood in my confusion of why?

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Sherry Taveras's avatar

😉🙌🏾💕

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Alicia Joyful's avatar

Every time I almost type on of these out, I catch myself and type the whole thing. I am trying and I also don’t want to try. Just say what you mean and say it in a way we all get what you mean. Can we please just use words. I am just going to keep using words and communicate on a way that makes sense to me and be curious and ask when I don’t know what something means. I’m ok looking old because I like that I’m 50.

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Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

Hahahahahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh my gosh I loved this so much Sherry! Gaaawwdd! I'm okay with using few short forms like fyi (for your information), wrt (with respect to), lol and tmi. Rest I'm blank!

I was like...gosh! I feel like a oldie! My friends who are in 30s use these short forms left & right...and I typically appreciate people writing fully formed sentences in messages...

I'm okay with one or two short forms in a message. But when the whole message is short form!!??? God it pisses me off!

P.S.: Can you believe I had to go and search lmao full form right now🤣🤣

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Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

Because of @sam I remembered I know one more abbreviation haha! ASAP! That's all. My list is done!

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Sherry Taveras's avatar

😂😂

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