My exact answer to the question of how many abbreviations I can guess correctly is that I belong to a generation that started expanding their urban diction with ASL, and that is also my exact answer to the question of when and how I started distrusting people. A person with a tat attempting to be a tit. 

Abbreviations were also a two-mark struggle for me. Competitive exams I appeared in had these questions pertaining to abbreviations, which never have lol or brb in their sentences. I have no grudge against it because sometimes answering the full form of PDF is better than answering the jargon that new humans use. I took exactly 13 seconds out of my life today to understand what my heavily pierced client meant when he asked me to be in his bandwidth.      

I don’t want to start a tirade about the trend, but I do need a way to modernise my database since using Google to search for these new age jargons has left my newsfeed quite complicated, and I’m sick of having to clean my browser history to have it corrected. I also don’t want to look for these phrases incognito. Something is wrong with it.  

It shouldn’t feel that illicit, in my opinion. 

In life, it’s all about tit-tat, it-that.

Sigh.

JEEP.

Later Alligator.

A millennial.

P.S. Seriously ASL?