• monk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The initialism is decades older than any iDevice. Go complain to people on USENET from before you were born.

      • bassomitron@lemmy.world
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        While true, it is a pretty bad acronym. IANAL on mobile is more cumbersome to write than, “I’m no lawyer/I’m not a lawyer,” and it’s safe to say the majority of folks using social media are on mobile.

        • BURN@lemmy.world
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          Not really though. It’s a caps lock + 5 letters. It’s still faster and less cumbersome than a multiple word phrase

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          1 year ago

          What if you want to tell someone that you’re not a lawyer, but you are into anal? Then it’s just efficient.

    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network
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      If you don’t want to see the initialism anymore, you could submit a PR to your Lemmy app that allows users like yourself to automatically expand it and similar initialisms and other shorthands in other people’s comments (preferably in a slightly different color so that it’s clear what happened when an word is erroneously or incorrectly expanded).