Ehh, I think it’s more fair to say we had our turn at making up abbreviations that made sense in our world as it briefly existed.
That commercial “IDK, my BFF Jill?” Was targeted at us, but 100 years ago telegraphers and ham radio operators were inventing abbreviations and slang in Morse code. 73 OM
You’re telling me that someone who has been teaching for 10 years uses the abbreviation “s2g”?
Fuck am I that old?
Millennials are ~30-45 now, and we pretty much invented text abbreviations like that 🤷♂️
Ehh, I think it’s more fair to say we had our turn at making up abbreviations that made sense in our world as it briefly existed.
That commercial “IDK, my BFF Jill?” Was targeted at us, but 100 years ago telegraphers and ham radio operators were inventing abbreviations and slang in Morse code. 73 OM
I’m millennial and have never heard of that one.
Swear to god
GenX’er laughing at the cute millennials that think we weren’t abbreviating shit on BBS forums and usenet.
And that radio telegraph operators weren’t using three letter Q-code shortcuts since the early 1900s.
Right? People have been lazy forever.
I heard Blink-182 being interviewed on NPR. We’re all old now!