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The Abbreviation “OMG” Is Way Older Than We Thought
by Alanna Bennett | 4:19 pm, August 7th, 2012
Younger generations these days are saddled with a lot of responsibilities they’re not quite prepared for: Coming of age in a time of economic turmoil, figuring out how to get Earth to let us keep living on it without drowning in its rising oceans, dealing with the ever-looming threat that Siri will finally follow through with her plan and enslave us all. Less grave, but nonetheless usually put on the youths of the world, is the popularization of text-speak. You know the type: LOL, LMFAO, ROFL, OMG, Totes. Well, it turns out there’s at least one of those abominations to the English language that no one in any recent generation has to take the blame for: “OMG” is at almost a hundred years old.
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