I am not a native english speaker and whenever i see an abbreviation i go “ah shit here we go again” like wtf is RSI? It could mean 5 billion things if not trillion, i know its contextual but like its close to impossible for me at least to understand what is meant when someone uses it sarcastically
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TBH (to be honest), Native speakers have to google acronyms as well. Acronyms are not new for scientific processes or businesses with long names, but texting made them popular fro normal speech as well. Because its faster to next, especially when we had to text on a numerical keyboard on a flip phone.
English is my native language, and I struggle with this too. I work for a corporation and they have abbreviations for everythinggggg. Half the time I don’t know what they mean and I don’t want to look stupid and ask. Lol
Oh, native English speakers have to Google it too! You memorize quite a few just going through life, but yeah we Google. Oh and sometimes we know the abbreviation, but we don’t know the actual regular word for it…so that’s fun too.
Typing stuff is hard. Honestly, though, I we’ve up having to look up most of the acrynoms people use.
Communication has evolved from letters(where you had to proofread) to email to texts(maximum character limit) to now Instant messaging (instant feed back of when it is read, when someone is typing and the urgency to reply before the subject changes in a chat room/trending topic).
Abreviations were mostly for long technical terms in professional fields but as social media started getting professionals from all fields having their discussions in the open, lots of those abreviations became popular.
On the other end, Twitter used to have a character limit just like SMS messages did so it was important to use abreviations like WTF, LOL, ASL, WYM, WYA, OMW to save characters and time for frequently used replies.
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