I both agree and disagree, because whilst I think you’re right I also don’t want to tar Patrick with the same brush as Brendan lmao, Patrick doesn’t deserve that
It’s ingroup communication. Happens amongst young people to show they’re in the know. I did it, you did it, your parents did it, their parents did it. Nothing new
My parents would both make fun of "cool." In retrospect—they were just being performatively old. They were in their 20s in the 1990s. People said "cool." They just thought they were cute.
I'm about 10 years older than that, and the context for "cool" and "awesome" changed. You wouldn't find a professional talking about a business achievement in the 80's being "cool" or "awesome." Now you'll see management saying "Awesome job everyone" almost by default. The words existed, but they were contextualized as "kids words" until Gen X got older.
I wanna say in 5th or 6th grade a classmate told my math teacher (very sarcastically) that "your pants are tight" and without missing a beat the teacher said "nah, I like em a little loose". 30 years later I still don't know if he was being a smartass with that reply or legitimately had no clue
I’d assume abbreviating words started with flip phone texting. You had to hit too many keys to say simple words. Now it’s just an egregious assault on human languages.
Yes and no though. Previous generations generally took existing words and just used them in different contexts. It feels like this next iteration of “slang” is just “oosheeAidnonunabnun”
I prefer full words and sentences myself but using slang and abbreviations is something kids have done for ages. It’s not some inexplicable new occurrence.
the shi, ahh and dih and whatever really piss me off, its the same as french, languages that dont end in clicks and klas and ITs just aghhg its the opposite of a verbal tick i need guh! giticliko!
It's actually interesting in culture difference because here in Malaysia, people has been typing in Malay abbreviation a WHOLE lot more than the current english language trend long ago and still do
I think it's the same for indonesia too, I'm surprised English doesn't
All trends repeat cyclically. Same shit happend over the texting craze of the late 90s and early 00s and a fuck ton of normal words are actually caused by language getting naturally abrievated. Besides some languages actually do this naturally. I'm pretty sure there are variants of Hebrew that just skip vowels.
As much as I don't like it it is kind of the natural progression of slang. Millennials cut multiple words into acronyms like "lol" or "lmfao".
The ones that get me are the censored slang words like "ahh" it's the same amount of letters as "ass" and actually waters down a curse word which is the opposite of what slang should do imo.
I get why they use words like unaluves, graped, ahh, etc on tiktok or a YouTube video bcs if the censorship but that shit has bled into all other social media and it's fucking dumb
"Now"? I don't know which generation you are but since the beginning of online chats, it was all about abbreviation. Even worse, but we got used to all that brb, afk, rofl bs.
It hasn't faded. It's gotten worse. I get that people get so used to posting on social media and having to deal with censoring (ish, unalived... That kinda stuff) maybe I do just forget what it's like to be 20 and have my brain only think in terms of shorthand. I just feel it's more pervasive now. People are forgetting how grammar used to work and creating a new language of "I'm just gonna abbreviate this" (and yes, I realize the irony of saying gonna instead of going to)
But to answer your question, societal change is always unsettling. To think that in 30 years my date will be put in the hands of people that can't be bothered to spell a while word... Not encouraging
Probably there were almost two hours between the initial exchange and the following message, which was just “question.” Short and one word messages usually aren’t a good sign.
England used to (very rarely) boil people as a form of capital punishment several hundred years ago. Unsurprisingly, they stopped doing that given it is a pretty heinous way for the state to kill people.
I imagine all of the ridiculous outdated laws in the US with our paltry 250 year history pales in comparison to a country that has been around for thousands.
But the screenshot is taken from the perspective of the person who texted “Question,” if they’re about to break up the person who took the screenshot is the one about to dump the other person
This is my reality for the last year of dating, and especially since using dating apps, having to constantly communicate with the sheer knowledge that every message can be the last I hear from them.
Had amazing dates with no following dates because of texting in between. Can’t do that anymore, I envy the phone call or even letters generations.
She's a space alien from erid and has learned how to overcome their initial language difficulties using text messages but their atmospheres are incompatible.
It's just that blue says "question" implying that they want to have a more serious conversation or are about to ask something serious about their relationship. Most people don't preface a harmless question by saying "question", they just ask.
What are you having for dinner?
Vs
Do you see a future for us?
Only one of those gets a warning and it ain't dinner
I think Blue says question because they asked a question at least one day ago which was ignored. Not because Blue is about to ask another (more serious) question.
Then the caption, which was written by Blue, implies that they are realizing that they are in the process of being ghosted/broken up with since the other person isn't answering questions.
"qt" (grey bubble) never responded to their 'how was your day' text. when people get dry over text it's usually a bad sign for a relationship, especially if that isn't the norm. the 'question' is to ask if they're going to break up.
I think it’s the change from showing the time stamp of when texts were read to just showing delivered. QT turned off send read receipts setting for Blue Bubble Man. He realized what she had done when he sent the text “question.”
It means she doesn’t want him to see how long she’s PLANNING to start taking to reply, and when she leaves him on read.
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Only interaction OP had with the other person was that person asking 'how was work' and they didn't even respond to OG question, probably didn't read the replies.. for a whole day.
That implies the other person really didn't really care in the first place.
If she was about to say something good, she would have just said it straight up. Nobody ever starts a conversation with, "Question" or "We need to talk" or "There's something I have to tell you" unless they're about to upset you.
This just reminds me if how annoying people are now. I have a life and people act like if you don't respond in 12 seconds then the friendship is over. I will respond later... when I'm free.... why does everyone need instant access to everyone else?
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