I write my texts like I'm writing a cover letter or a wedding invitation to flex on the less erudite and meticulous.
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This notion confuses me as an old user
My thumbs hurt from spelling ish out for decades
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“Please talk to me like I’m your grandmother. I’m tired of asking what you mean.”
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Those are simple. SMH: System Managed Heraldry, SMDH: Shaving my dog here!
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Game Master?
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And they’re usually such worthless abbreviations and acronyms that save next to no time. Unless you’ve already defined your acronym or someone mentioned it immediately before you, you’re just confusing a smattering of people.
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Thats where my head went too. Does it mean something else?
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Gotta be good morning. Seems like a pretty unnecessary abbreviation to me
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Man I love CP, if only it didn't take up so much space on my hard drive.
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God of War vs Gears of War are my least favorite but there are others like when it’s solo, ie D2.
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For those people you want to know that you care enough about them to wish a good morning, but not enough to type out the full words
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Make up your own abbreviations to reply is always fun. Or use out of context abbreviations. My abbreviation loving colleague was so confused when I used a few military terms they didn't know.
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Genetically modified
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My partner thought “SMH” meant “so much hate”, and “SMDH” meant “so much damn hate”. It worked perfectly in every situation they heard it in. I taught them the real meaning when I realized this about a half decade into dating.
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shitting my hands
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shitting my hands
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What the fuck do they mean? I'm so old I still haven't heard of them
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Even worse when you learn a new language, like Indonesian that uses a shitton of abbreviations.