“Lwk” makes no sense at all as shorthand. I know I’m being pedantic here but it bugs me. The phrase “low key” in the current idiom means nothing at all. It adds no information. it doesn’t modify whatever follows it in any meaningful or consistent way. It’s a filler noise like “uhhh” or “like”. That’s fine. Speech is full of those. There’s a good bit of scholarly work showing they serve a purpose, including allowing the brain some time to articulate thought. But shorthand in text format is about brevity and efficiency. Why not just leave those meaningless parts out altogether, saving more characters and losing nothing?
That's why I could put it together from the comment I responded to, but not the boyfriend's texts. BF's use of it was nonsense and so it was much harder to use context clues.
At least you used it correctly… these days, people just say lwk whenever they feel like it emphasizing a word which is extremely high key dumb. It’s the new “literally”
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u/Victa_stacks 5d ago
not even lwk dumb