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[–] monk@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] BURN@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

On mobile, the initialism takes a third or less as much time for me vs typing it out.

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[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

You must type it out a lot then, my autocorrect doesn't pick it up.

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[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 2 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago

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).

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[–] Zorque@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Sounds like you need to take your sex toy out, it seems to be chafing you.

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[–] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago

I upgraded to the iAnal Max 8 Pro and it's the best money I've ever spent.