Flo and Friends by Jenny Campbell for August 21, 2024

“What does IDK stand for?” “I don’t know.” “I should have known better than to ask you.”

Urban Dictionary is your friend

Could be worse. Some people use emojis exclusively.

Well, it may be b/c “Thx” is “Thanks”, not “Txs”. Or, maybe Ruthie missed the context, so she missed figgerin out she was being thanked???

I hate posts full of abbreviations that can mean several things or professionals that use theirs and us common folk have no clue what they mean. Worse when it is some news report which never explains them as they should initially.

I guess I’m just an old fogey because I don’t understand any of the abbreviations people use, even on this site. I also don’t get this urban dictionary they talk about.

Don’t feel bad, Ruthie, sometimes I’m the same way. My grandson and his fiancee think I’m hilarious for typing everything out.

We should not think that we are too old to learn something new. She has a PED, and that is a good start.

I still use TNX, for thanks. Even before electronic messaging. My handwriting is awful so my typed communications might as well be at least equally as indecipherable.

I worked in tech and almost every presentation I ever attended was filled with so many acronyms that it was hard to understand what they were talking about. Nothing like listening to gibberish for 5 or 10 minutes and then raising a hand and asking “what does WSIC stand for?” Reading texts is much the same. But search engines do help.

I’m the same way! I’ve had to tell my friend to stop it and use actual words!

Back in the old days, when the telephone number dial was all you had to work with, the abbreviations made sense. Now, we all have full (but tiny) keyboards, so spelling it out is easier than learning all the old codes. I didn’t do much texting in the old days. Now we get typing prompts to speed our use of full words.