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  2. Young fogey - Wikipedia

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    "Young fogey" is a term humorously applied, in British context, to some younger-generation, rather buttoned-down [clarification needed] men, many of whom were writers and journalists. The term is attributed to Alan Watkins writing in 1984 in

  3. List of kennings - Wikipedia

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    A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. Kennings for a particular character are listed in that character ...

  4. List of emoticons - Wikipedia

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    A simple smiley. This is a list of emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's moods or facial expressions in the form of icons.Originally, these icons consisted of ASCII art, and later, Shift JIS art and Unicode art.

  5. Chat fiction - Wikipedia

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    The first chat fiction platform, Hooked, was created by Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, who were writing a novel and decided to do A/B testing to gauge reader preferences. . They found that most of their target audience of teenagers failed to finish 1,000-word excerpts of best-selling young-adult novels, but read through stories of the same length written as text message conversations.

  6. Why are people so bad at texting? The psychology behind bad ...

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    There's many misunderstandings that happen during texting, and I think a lot of people are aware of that, so they shy away from texting. It often gets interpreted as rude, but for a lot of people ...

  7. Huh? What Does 'Sus' Mean in a Text? - AOL

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    Here are some examples of how to use "sus" in a chat or text: Something about his story seems sus to me. ... The popular Gen Z slang term does not mean "cute." Rather, "sus" is commonly used to ...

  8. Hooked (app) - Wikipedia

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    By mid-2016, the app had 700 stories written by professional authors and 9,000 stories written by users. [10] Hooked had 1.8 million downloads by 2016 [7] and 20 million download as of 2017, which generated $6.5 million in revenue. [12] The response to Hooked prompted others to create similar text-message based short story apps, like Yarn and ...

  9. Huh? Here's What 'ATP' Actually Means on Social Media - AOL

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    If you see this term in a text, there are a couple of possible meanings.