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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Humor@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 个月前

The "coin boys"

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The "coin boys"

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Humor@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 个月前
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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    Millennials are ~30-45 now, and we pretty much invented text abbreviations like that 🤷‍♂️

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      I’m millennial and have never heard of that one.

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        Swear to god

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      GenX’er laughing at the cute millennials that think we weren’t abbreviating shit on BBS forums and usenet.

      • anomoly@lemmy.world
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        And that radio telegraph operators weren’t using three letter Q-code shortcuts since the early 1900s.

        • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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          Right? People have been lazy forever.

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
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        laughs in court transcript

        Shorthand has always been around. Writing is still slower than speaking or thinking

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      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

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      I heard Blink-182 being interviewed on NPR. We’re all old now!

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