Dylan16807 4 days ago

I have never seen anyone abbreviate it like that before. Let's not do that.

  • SllX 3 days ago

    1) Let’s not prescribe language-use on the web instead. Something that originates in one place does not always stay in one place. How does that sound?

    2) It’s abbreviated in every single thread on the sub in which it originated: https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

    3) Now that you have seen it and received the explanation, you will recognize it and can be the messenger in the future.

    • Dylan16807 3 days ago

      1) I think word use is an ongoing process and sometimes I want to participate in that negotiation.

      2) Showing that a phrase is abbreviated on the specific subreddit named after that phrase is one of the least convincing arguments possible for general use of that abbreviation.

      3) I could, but that doesn't sound like something I particularly want to happen.

      • SllX 3 days ago

        > I have never seen anyone abbreviate it like that before.

        When you phrased your original post like this, I thought that meant you were familiar with the common phrase but somehow missed the abbreviation. So bullet point 2 was not an argument, but context.

        Here’s an argument though: being part of the ongoing process of negotiating word use usually takes the form of choosing which words and phrases to make part of your own vernacular and which ones to omit. Nobody wants to hear “let’s not do that” nor “don’t do that”, especially over such a mundane abbreviation.