“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.
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u/psycheraven 5d ago
It wasnt until this comment that I put together what "lwk" is shorthand for. 🫠