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> a/s/l Off topic story: In the early days of the internet I had a friend named Sal, who didn't understand what asl meant. He was very confused how people in c
by ModernMech 5y ago
> a/s/l
Off topic story: In the early days of the internet I had a friend named Sal, who didn't understand what asl meant. He was very confused how people in chat rooms knew his name as soon as he got there, but weren't spelling it correctly.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoThat's really funny. I had a similar experience recently, where someone on Twitter DM'ed me, and I said "Howdy!" and they said "I'm doing well, how are you?" After probing in a diplomatic way, it turned out that they interpreted "Howdy" as "How are you doing today?" which was fascinating to me, because it makes perfect sense. I never would've made the connection.
- andrewpbrett 5y agoThis may be apocryphal but I've heard that "howdy" is essentially a contraction of "how do you do" Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy
- TeMPOraL 5y agoI've always assumed that "howdy" was a word from the vernacular of a small regional community in some random US location, that got promoted to mainstream English - individual words from dialects sometimes get picked up and adopted into "canonical" language.