2B or not 2B
Apr 05, 2019
3 minutes
Text Rajeswari Vikiraman and Rachel Kwek
There used to be a time, in the quaint era of letter writing, when the acronym LOL referred to ‘lots of love’ or ‘lots of luck’. Then came the era when writing via electronic communications became ubiquitous and those phrases were swiftly dethroned. As history would have it, LOL evolved into ‘laugh out loud’.
Texting, instant messaging and writing on social media platforms, all of which are mostly done using smartphones these days, have encouraged people to convey messages as succinctly as one possibly could, and led to the development of a
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