https://freerepublic.com/tag/abbreviation/ en-us Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:21:59 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3246719/posts Over lunch one day, a co-worker grumbled about something being "v. annoying." It took a second for me to understand what the quick, consonant blip pre-adjective was, and when my brain processed it, I realized something: Yet again, we'd contextualized Internet slang into a colloquialism. Or was it as new-fangled as it seemed? OMG, after all, the classic abbreviation—used by squealing pre-teens, shocked parents, and everyone in between to evoke a three-syllabic exclamation of emotions ranging from surprise to ironic excitement—was one of the original text acronyms to be translated from cellphone screen to language (remember those "scandalous" Gossip Girl... The Atlantic https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3246719/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:21:59 GMT