Today I learned that the FBI has an 83-page guide to internet speak - The Verge


4/18/2022 12:00:00 AM3 yearsago
by Emma Roth

The FBI’s 83-page list of internet slang is supposed to explain what the kids say online. Revealed by a Freedom of Information Act request in 2014, it goes from LOL to indecipherable gibberish in record time.

It made me PIMPL Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Today I learned (TIL) theres an 83-page FBI guide to internet slang filled with abbreviations entered either by a complete troll or someone … [+2626 chars]

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