BTW, FTW, ILY, CYA, NSFW, FWIW. These basic Gen Z -favored abbreviations might appear largely impenetrable to those of us who belong to older and increasingly receding generations; but in reality this seemingly insider-y language is the result of a dynamic that has been going on for thousands of years. We refer to it as shorthand.
A Pedagogical Shorthand
A Pedagogical Shorthand
A Pedagogical Shorthand
BTW, FTW, ILY, CYA, NSFW, FWIW. These basic Gen Z -favored abbreviations might appear largely impenetrable to those of us who belong to older and increasingly receding generations; but in reality this seemingly insider-y language is the result of a dynamic that has been going on for thousands of years. We refer to it as shorthand.