• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    This is absolutely not the reason, because even back then when we started doing it, we did it on ICQ, MSN, etc. those chats didn’t have length restrictions, and typing was easy on a keyboard.

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      1 day ago

      It wasn’t a whole sentence entirely composed of shortened words. It was just some frequent words and expressions that were shortened. The reason there was a combination of writing speed and internet jargon.