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    7719 days ago

    Call me an old curmudgeon, but I just cannot get behind “sm” or “smth”. I hope that trend dies.

    “Rizz” on the other hand is a fantastic term.

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          619 days ago

          Well that’s a different thing, as it’s not an abbreviation, but an acronym. Which is why that actually gave me pause after years of using “smth” online, because I always read “smh” as “something” instead of “shaking my head.”

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            218 days ago

            It always bothered me because “shaking my head” isn’t even a figure of speech people say, so how the fuck can you use an acronym form of the expression.

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              218 days ago

              Much like how gifs work, I presume.

              Like you just imagine someone shaking their head. Just kine you imagine someone smiling when I type :)

              The thing is, shaking ones head isn’t as universal of a symbol as smiling. Some cultures have nods and shakes the other way around. Which seems somewhat weird.

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      1319 days ago

      I though it stood for “sadomasochism” and was trying to figure out what that meant here.

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        18 days ago

        It’s like the cooties… the key ring is the equivalent of “circle circle dot dot now you’ve had your cooties shot” because today’s youth are spoiled.

        The times have surely changed. Kids and their fancy ass key rings… all I got was a titty twister & a loogey in the palm.

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      617 days ago

      Right now it’s popular to reduce words to three letters. On god. Mid. No cap. The trend seems to be removing as much information as possible while still leaving the meaning intact. It’s an art form in the slang world apparently