Life's Too Long For Short Forms

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Life happens while you find ways to save time by cutting down on words. Woah. Now that the intellectual mini-speech is over, let me tell you that this post is going to be an exaggerated piece of write-up which many of you might disagree with. But please, try getting my point before hating on me.

A gr8 way to strt da post is 2 frst of al greet y'al. Wlcome!

Translation to the above: A great way to start the post is to greet all of you. Welcome!

This pretty much clears my point.

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I know, I know. We are extremely busy people, but none of us are going on a world tour by saving a few milliseconds by reducing each to a few letters. See, I am no saint preaching idealistic stuff. I use abbreviations, too. But some of these abbreviations make me go “why would you even...”

Do you realise that “LOL” means “laughing out loud”, but you have an expression as jovial as a brick when you send it? You say “JK” which means “Just kidding” while you intend to get away with saying something offensive. Now that these are some top secrets that I just revealed, let's continue today's post.

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There exist so many abbreviations that you don't even know of, but some people still use them. You almost need tutorials to understand them. 

Trust me, there is nothing cool about short forms that seem to be more of a set of letters put together absurdly than something that is supposed to save time.

Let's just go on a pleasant(not really) journey in finding out some internet slangs, which.. are just... strange. Let's see if you can recognise full forms of all the abbreviations below before I specify them!

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1.   E123: Would you believe me if I say a short form like this exists? It does. And it means “Easy as 1, 2, 3”. But E123 in itself sounds like an undecipherable code. That's the irony! Please save the mankind the usage of such abbreviations, I plead.

2.   SLAP: I am not kidding. It means “Sounds like a plan”. It can also be a greeting like “Stay long and prosper”. If you use this abbreviation and the next day someone slaps the life out of you, you know who to blame.

3.   CU2: Any guesses what this means? “See you, too”. Just like CU would mean “See you”. Did you see this coming?

4.   L8R: Later. Say the whole word, my friend. It is a five-lettered word. Why would you complicate such a simple thing?

5.   W8: Wait. W8 means Wait. Saving yourself the efforts of typing two more letters ain't taking you anywhere. There, I said it.

6.   WB: Definitely not Warner Bros. It's short for “Welcome back”. Honestly, if you are saying this to me, I am going back to wherever I came from.

7.   KMN: It means “Kill Me Now”. The fact that I am a nice person and won't kill you doesn't really change. But, still. Also, here's additional information. Nobody can kill you via text. Know what you are asking for, duh!

There are many more!

Basically, I was just ranting about this short-form-for-everything trend. Yes, it was exaggerated, but are you denying that over some time it does get on your nerves?

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