I was until a few months ago under the notion that only people of a certain age group used SMS lingo over messages and emails. I couldn't have been more wrong.
An acquaintance almost ten years my senior sent me a message asking for a particular recipe, and it took me a good while to understand what it was all about.
'Hi hru' it read and I kept wondering what she tried to mean by that, never for once considering that she might only be asking my well being in such a rushed manner. Apparently it meant 'how are you', and I wondered why she even bothered asking me that when she had to abbreviate this question into three alphabets.
The rest of the message was littered with gems like 'u', 'wud', 'thru' , 'ur' ,'r' .
I didn't realize but my face had upturned into an annoyed scowl. It upset me that someone would write like this, who's supposedly a sometimes English teacher no less.
All my replies to each shorthand were exquisitely long hand, with proper punctuations and all the works, hoping in vain that she'd probably reply in kind.. but what are hopes if not meant to be thwarted, and thwarted they were. Her each reply increasingly abbreviated, to the point that her thanks read something like 'thnxu'
'awesome' has somehow become 'osum' and if doomsday isn't brutally homicidal, I'll have a few grudges to hold against our gods.
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