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We have the benefit of decades of parsing this sort of message. 25 years ago, this was like another language.
Especially when individuals or friend groups would make up their own abbreviations for their own slang, and you might have no goddamn idea what something meant
So old people have their own secret language that young people can't decipher?
For once, we have the upper hand.
Hey, who are you calling old?
Good point!