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I'm not up-to-date with what OG means. Apparently OG "original gangster" usernames refer to common words such as "@Miracle", that were registered by early adopt

I'm not up-to-date with what OG means. Apparently OG "original gangster" usernames refer to common words such as "@Miracle", that were registered by early adopters. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/style/instagram-account-fraud-ban.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/04/style/instagram-account-f...

edoceo 5y ago
Or that guy @slack on Twitter. Or @gusto on same
- wyclif 5y ago
  The ultimate example to me is the nissan.com guy.
  - edoceo 5y ago
    Oh! How could I forget! Legend! And they had to get NissanUSA.com
pkrotich 5y ago
Yes indeed - I thought everyone knew that /s :) You’ll be amazed how much googling I do when having conversations with friends - I wasn’t born in the West and things like movie references leave me confused af! But I hide it… thank goodness for urban dictionary
- delgaudm 5y ago
  Looks up "af"
  - PostThisTooFast 5y ago
    The other problem is people not capitalizing abbreviations as they should. You see even major news organizations doing it. The entire nation of Great Britain appears to think there's a space agency called "Nasa." Ignorant AF.
    - hnarn 5y ago
      I think I read somewhere that there’s a rule for abbreviations that if they’re “pronounceable” you shouldn’t use all caps. For example, you write IBM because you articulate the letters, it’s not “Ibbem”. Conversely you don’t say the letters in Nasa, but you do in NSA and so forth.
      - PickledHotdog 5y ago
        It's dependent on the organisation's style guide, so not a 'hard and fast' rule, but you're correct Other examples like this are whether numbers are spelt out (eg one vs 1), and at what point that changes (eg spelling out "ten" but writing 1,000) But yeah, depends on the organisation. Check out how the New Yorker deals with the word co-operation :P
        hnarn 5y ago
        As a Swede I have unfortunately lost all my respect for the New Yorker as an authority on language since I learned about their usage of the letter ö, which I guess is what you're referring to.[1] Having a native language where this letter is very much present and carries phonetic meaning, it completely trips me up. It annoys me almost as much as when people use the equivalent letter Ø instead of the actual ∅ for "empty set". I'd probably even choose ⦰ but of course all of these choices require some awareness that a character is "taken" as well as some measure of consideration for people other than yourself and those just like you. End of old man rant. [1]: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
        PickledHotdog 5y ago
        Hahaha yes, that's what I was referring to and you're right to be infuriated by it. It's purely elitist horse-dust from The New Yorker to use ö rather than chucking a hyphen in there instead.
    - 0x008 5y ago
      Abbreviations are not capitalized but acronyms are.
- tmaly 5y ago
  urban dictionary can warp your belief in humanity.
- iszomer 5y ago
  But what's considered as an OG account? Age? Short handle? Something that isn't imaginative or a portmanteau of something? I remember the ICQ days where the shorter your ICQ number, you are the OG of OG's..
  - Strom 5y ago
    OG refers to precedence due to age. It also tends to correlate with short names, but that's just because people like short names - and so short names are registered earlier and thus are older.
ww520 5y ago
OG is the old gang of people, the original early founders/adopters/users.
- caseyohara 5y ago
  OG means "original gangster": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/OG https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/OG (see History and Etymology section) > slang: someone or something that is an original or originator and especially one that is highly respected or regarded
  - vineyardmike 5y ago
    Old Gang of people... the original gangster. This doesn't seem wrong. OG directly translates to Original Gangster, but is used to refer to the old crowd, the original people, the firsts, etc. In extreme example, it would not be considered incomprehensible (but perhaps strange) to say something like "native americans are the OG north american inhabitants"... really nothing to do with gangsters.
    - hamburglar 5y ago
      Technically true, but... if you say it means "old group" or "original gaggle" or "oldest goat," you should probably expect to be corrected, because it sounds like an implication that that's what OG actually stands for.
      - jjeaff 5y ago
        It is notable in this case that gang is the root of gangster.
emptybottle 5y ago
Can be simply read as OriGinal
cutthegrass2 5y ago
Well TIL. I thought it stood for Old Guard meaning "original or long-standing members of a group", but I'll take "original gangster" instead, sounds better :-)
rosndo 5y ago
OG does not mean “original gangster”, only confused senile journalists believe this. Just read it as “original”, or accept that nobody uses it as an abbreviation anymore.

edoceo 5y ago

Or that guy @slack on Twitter. Or @gusto on same

wyclif 5y ago
The ultimate example to me is the nissan.com guy.
- edoceo 5y ago
  Oh! How could I forget! Legend! And they had to get NissanUSA.com

pkrotich 5y ago

Yes indeed - I thought everyone knew that /s :) You’ll be amazed how much googling I do when having conversations with friends - I wasn’t born in the West and things like movie references leave me confused af! But I hide it… thank goodness for urban dictionary

delgaudm 5y ago
Looks up "af"
- PostThisTooFast 5y ago
  The other problem is people not capitalizing abbreviations as they should. You see even major news organizations doing it. The entire nation of Great Britain appears to think there's a space agency called "Nasa." Ignorant AF.
  - hnarn 5y ago
    I think I read somewhere that there’s a rule for abbreviations that if they’re “pronounceable” you shouldn’t use all caps. For example, you write IBM because you articulate the letters, it’s not “Ibbem”. Conversely you don’t say the letters in Nasa, but you do in NSA and so forth.
    - PickledHotdog 5y ago
      It's dependent on the organisation's style guide, so not a 'hard and fast' rule, but you're correct Other examples like this are whether numbers are spelt out (eg one vs 1), and at what point that changes (eg spelling out "ten" but writing 1,000) But yeah, depends on the organisation. Check out how the New Yorker deals with the word co-operation :P
      - hnarn 5y ago
        As a Swede I have unfortunately lost all my respect for the New Yorker as an authority on language since I learned about their usage of the letter ö, which I guess is what you're referring to.[1] Having a native language where this letter is very much present and carries phonetic meaning, it completely trips me up. It annoys me almost as much as when people use the equivalent letter Ø instead of the actual ∅ for "empty set". I'd probably even choose ⦰ but of course all of these choices require some awareness that a character is "taken" as well as some measure of consideration for people other than yourself and those just like you. End of old man rant. [1]: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-the-diaeresis https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...
        PickledHotdog 5y ago
        Hahaha yes, that's what I was referring to and you're right to be infuriated by it. It's purely elitist horse-dust from The New Yorker to use ö rather than chucking a hyphen in there instead.
  - 0x008 5y ago
    Abbreviations are not capitalized but acronyms are.
tmaly 5y ago
urban dictionary can warp your belief in humanity.
iszomer 5y ago
But what's considered as an OG account? Age? Short handle? Something that isn't imaginative or a portmanteau of something? I remember the ICQ days where the shorter your ICQ number, you are the OG of OG's..
- Strom 5y ago
  OG refers to precedence due to age. It also tends to correlate with short names, but that's just because people like short names - and so short names are registered earlier and thus are older.

ww520 5y ago

OG is the old gang of people, the original early founders/adopters/users.

caseyohara 5y ago
OG means "original gangster": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/OG https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/OG (see History and Etymology section) > slang: someone or something that is an original or originator and especially one that is highly respected or regarded
- vineyardmike 5y ago
  Old Gang of people... the original gangster. This doesn't seem wrong. OG directly translates to Original Gangster, but is used to refer to the old crowd, the original people, the firsts, etc. In extreme example, it would not be considered incomprehensible (but perhaps strange) to say something like "native americans are the OG north american inhabitants"... really nothing to do with gangsters.
  - hamburglar 5y ago
    Technically true, but... if you say it means "old group" or "original gaggle" or "oldest goat," you should probably expect to be corrected, because it sounds like an implication that that's what OG actually stands for.
    - jjeaff 5y ago
      It is notable in this case that gang is the root of gangster.

emptybottle 5y ago

Can be simply read as OriGinal

cutthegrass2 5y ago

Well TIL. I thought it stood for Old Guard meaning "original or long-standing members of a group", but I'll take "original gangster" instead, sounds better :-)

rosndo 5y ago

OG does not mean “original gangster”, only confused senile journalists believe this. Just read it as “original”, or accept that nobody uses it as an abbreviation anymore.