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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (9 children)

You're telling me that someone who has been teaching for 10 years uses the abbreviation "s2g"?

Fuck am I that old?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Millennials are ~30-45 now, and we pretty much invented text abbreviations like that 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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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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