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minus-squareLauchmelder@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 hours agoabbreviations are a normal part of human language, and have been around since long before the 90s
minus-squareRekorse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 hours agoThey are right though, we came up with lol and stuff like that because texting on a keypad was tedious. Its not really useful in the way it was back then, its just stuck around from popular use.
minus-squarebryndos@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoYeah but it got so much worse when that prick Bell came along and started pushing his fucking 'phone in the 1890s.
abbreviations are a normal part of human language, and have been around since long before the 90s
They are right though, we came up with lol and stuff like that because texting on a keypad was tedious. Its not really useful in the way it was back then, its just stuck around from popular use.
Yeah but it got so much worse when that prick Bell came along and started pushing his fucking 'phone in the 1890s.