• Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Anytime people needed to save space while texting you have acronyms(tbh) or shortenings(no 8 m8) happening so it’s not surprising many languages have them.

    French does.

    • Kelly@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Anytime

      Newspaper classifieds used to be full of arcane abbreviations.

      Now we have the internet we can look up a cheatsheet, but no longer use newspaper classifieds.