LEARNING THE JARGON
By ARM
@responsiveme (22923)
India
June 10, 2016 6:57am CST
A fellow MyLotter XDD ed me today in her response. Thankfully Mr Google was there for me to look it up. Obviously I couldn’t reply back if I didn’t know what she meant.
I told her about it and she laughed.
Which ,brings me to what I want to say. I grew up in an era where we wrote letters . Usual signing off for friends and family was-- lots of love.
Then LOL came on the scene. I wondered why strangers would profess love for each other instantly (I thought it stood for the bygone –lots of love
.). Had the world suddenly become a loving place, I wondered. .The newspaper headings said otherwise....
So, I asked a friend ,who laughed and put me right....
I graduated to ROFL and FAQ and earned brownie points from my kids when I got them correct.
I am yet to understand what ‘hash tag’ and WUB means
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.). Had the world suddenly become a loving place, I wondered. .The newspaper headings said otherwise....
So, I asked a friend ,who laughed and put me right....
I graduated to ROFL and FAQ and earned brownie points from my kids when I got them correct.
I am yet to understand what ‘hash tag’ and WUB means
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19 responses
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
12 Jun 16
@responsiveme hahaha yes my son would laugh at me and his Dad because of our ignorance before teaching us the meaning.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
12 Jun 16
@salonga Yes our kids are the 'go to' persons for this.
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
11 Jun 16
LOL! Just kidding. It took me a long time to learn the lingo, and I still don't know much. My younger son usually is my go to person for explanations. All I know is that one looks up things on Twitter using hashtags.
I feel so old and out of the loop!!!
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
11 Jun 16
@responsiveme It's all due to technology. What a shame.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
11 Jun 16
I go to the young people too to ask about the lingo and of course there's the net.
But long and proper words are so beautiful aren't they.
I can't imagine people writing poetry in this 'language'.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
12 Jun 16
@valmnz yes, thats the symbol and I see that it is there on the key board :) but what does it mean?
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
10 Jun 16
Laughing especially hard. " It represents a face tilted 90 degrees to the left, where the X is the eyes and the two Ds are the mouth."...got from the net.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
10 Jun 16
@responsiveme See - you're teaching me something now! I've never come across that one.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
10 Jun 16
@jaboUK hee hee, well I had to look it up when I got that in a response !
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@Babs0630 (487)
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10 Jun 16
The term (wub) means love lol kids these days speak in "baby language" and it sure is aggravating. There are so many words that kids these days just change or abbreviate. I have a discussion on how I got a call from my child's school on a certain word.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
10 Jun 16
That was helpful.I just couldn't understand why WUB meant love.
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@Babs0630 (487)
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10 Jun 16
@responsiveme it's how most teens talk these days as I have 3 teens and I tell them if you cant talk correctly then don't speak at all lol
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
10 Jun 16
@Babs0630 Then you can decode for me.LOL
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
27 Jun 16
I feel like you do! When I was a professor at the university (teaching literature) language started to change and I received papers written in a very curious way. I told them that I was no Champolion and the students looked at me with the same eyes I used to read their papers. They had never heard od Champolion and the Rosetta stone. We belonged to another era. But then, as I was the owner of the game, I told them that I would only grade what I understood. 
Now, when I started to write online (and worse still not in my native tongue) letters came up. I still don´t know what some of the emoticons mean so I use the ones I know
Now, when I started to write online (and worse still not in my native tongue) letters came up. I still don´t know what some of the emoticons mean so I use the ones I know1 person likes this
@allknowing (153544)
• India
6 Jul 16
You are not alone but the joy was after I picked up a few that I was able to educate others about them 
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@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
16 Jun 16
I too grew up in the day of hand written letters.......I am lost to all the abbreviations
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
17 Jun 16
@Tampa_girl7 Yesterday I posted a discussion on old abbreviations. You will be familiar with those,I think :)
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
10 Jun 16
i still dunno what "xdd" means 'n profess great laziness'n regards to lookin' such'p. i may dribble'n talk funny, but aint got no desire to learn all that "text ease". gigglin' o'er the lol. reminds me'f when someone wrote me "hag". i was quite offended 'til the daughter told me that they fergot the "d". no doubt i'd a puzzled look 'pon my face, 'til she 'xplain'd - "have a good day". yepperz, i thought that person'd jest called me a hag!
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
11 Jun 16
@responsiveme i was ready to crawl through the puter screen'n throttle 'em :D yer welcome!
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
11 Jun 16
I would be really put off if somebody would "hag" me . And i've just learnt to decode 'hagd' from you .Thanks :)1 person likes this
@responsiveme (22923)
• India
11 Jun 16
OK this is copy and paste from what I got on the net XDD--Laughing especially hard. " It represents a face tilted 90 degrees to the left, where the X is the eyes and the two Ds are the mouth.".
And Barbara did decode WUB for us :)
Still have to get down to the #
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@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
13 Jul 16
Hashtag is used to call someone by tagging them. Like here on myLot we use "@", on twitter and facebook we use "#" before the usernames to tag them. WUB is baby speak for Love. The way a baby will pronounce "love". There is LMAO and ROFLMAO too among others.
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@responsiveme (22923)
• India
14 Jul 16
thank you.
now I know them after the responses.
don't do twitter, fb only to send out pm(ha ha....learnt it newly)1 person likes this
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
11 Jun 16
I know a few but honestly I can't keep up with all these shortened words and I am not sure I want to. lol and I do mean laugh out loud!!
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
19 Feb 18
I have never heard of WUB, but, have heard of hash tag but still do not understand it.
