You dont speak jive, UNC.
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Thank you Chat GPT for translating this one for me. Haha.
🧓🏽
EDIT: I quizzed my three kids from different generations.
Eldest didn't know know wsg, but middle child did.
Currently, my 10-year-old is running around me in circles calling me an "unc"le.
Smh
Yes.
You are showing your age? You never used slang in your life?
WSG means What is good. It is a modern day equivalent of “What is up” “What is going on” hell when I was a teenage I used to use what is good…
The “No disrespect” statement certainly means that the sender just wants to talk to the receiver and isn’t trying to start a fight or continue a fight.
Most people, regardless of language, use slang. Including myself. When it comes to acronym use though, I don't often use text acronyms. I understand most early ones, but newer ones pop up now and again.
I've heard 'what's good', but never a text acronym of wsg. After my daughter mentioned that, it made sense. (Although I proceeded to forget and you're reminding me again of what it means. Haha.)
"No disrespect" is something I think I would normally understand given some context, but this message is out of the blue from a stranger I've never interacted with. I honestly thought that if this message wasn't spam and I responded, they were going to be critical or rude about something and they were perhaps trying to soften the blow upfront. Ironically, that seems to be the opposite of what your suggesting. 🤷🏽
Language can be funny.
What is 'wsg?' We sex goats? Why shoot, Granny? Welcome, Shit Gobbler?
Most definitely the last one. 😁
Seems pretty straightforward.
"Hey, what's up? You're not in trouble or anything, but I'd like to ask if it's okay to message you privately. I have a question for you."
I don't see any reason not to indulge this person, it seems like they're curious about something.
They sent a private message to ask if they could privately ask something? That's really really strange to me.
And if they're starting the message implying that I'm not in trouble, then that makes it even more confusing because I have no reason to think I would be in trouble.
But if this is a now common way of communicating with people, then I genuinely want to understand that. I simply never read or heard any examples of it from a stranger out of the blue.
The main reason I'm not indulging it is simply because I get multiple spam messages via SMS each week. They all start with an attempt to phish for somebody's attention. Something as simple as saying "hello" or "are you still going to make it tonight?" Then it's revealed that, whoops wrong number, and they start trying to interact with you (because, why not, it's friendly) and eventually phish for information. It's a pretty common scheme.
At first I used to have fun responding, but after doing more reading on the scheme and the unfortunate people who are being used to send those kinds of messages, I realized makes things worse for the person being forced to do that work.
What threw me off about this one is that I couldn't understand it. And for that reason, it made me wonder if it really was spam in the first place. I mean I've seen grammatically incorrect spam all the time, but this one could be intentional. So I figured I'd see if other people fully understood what it meant.
I see what you're saying here, yeah.
Digital etiquette has evolved a lot. Typically, these days, sending a message in your DMs is less like pulling you aside for a whisper and more like shouting inside your living room. The culture that's grown up around power-tripping mod bans, scams, and other awful shit has made messaging someone privately a delicate matter.
This person is being polite by knocking on your door to announce that they're already in your living room, and asking permission to speak with you. I see this as excellent behavior, filling a glaringly bad gap in user privacy protections on other platforms. They're being decent about an intrusion that's a (tragically common) built-in design flaw of the app.
This is interesting.
My lack of experience on most socials isn't helping. I've never used Snapchat Twitter Instagram tiktock etc. Pixelfed was my first venture into that realm, but i only use it as a person gallery and to check out interesting photography from others. I know it's modeled on Instagram, which has grown beyond that quite a bit, but that's never been for me though.
Anyway, thanks for the insight.
The Internet's grown up a lot. Different websites and apps will develop entire subcultures, with different slang, etiquette, politics, and posting standards. What's acceptable in one neighborhood will get you downvoted into oblivion somewhere else. Like the real world, everybody eventually finds their lunch table.
100% this. There are very specific kinds of communities that I gravitate towards. Forums, link aggregators, and the older social platforms like FB where are you friend actual friends. The lack of high-speed internet and mobile data made a lot of the other platforms less accessible to me as I've lived around the world. When you have a data budget, you don't tend to use media centric services where people scroll through content rapidly. I've also never really been into "following" strangers. I've only recently started doing it on Pixelfed because it helps further define the kind of photography and art I'm interested in looking at.
I pick things up and figure things out over time. Like 4chan green text which I never understood, but would see quoted on Lemmy or Reddit. I'll figure out these abbreviations and manners of speech as well... eventually..haha.
Yes. And it's not even hard to understand what's being said.
Well, to be honest, language is always hard to understand if you've never heard the words ( or acronyms) used in the first place. That's the nature the ignorance.
Out of genuine curiosity, if you were to translate the original message into plain grammatically correct English, how would you translate it?
"Hey, what's going on? I don't mean to bother you, but could you call me real quick? I got a question for you."
It's a cold message from a stranger on a platform that doesn't have call support.
The first half is sort of what I got out of it, though.
Thanks.
why not ask the question immediately, I don't get this
This is engagement bait. It’s spam.
Exactly my thought. Never heard the term "engagement bait", but it smells right. 🙂
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Statements followed by question marks hurt my brain, and I will perceive them as disrespectful.
It's not proper grammar but it's pretty common in other languages like Spanish (in fact that's pretty much the only way to ask a lot of questions). I think it's only disrespectful if it's used in a situation that demands formality.
Ehhh I don't think this is too farfetched. Not all young people talk like this but some sure do. The no disrespect is kinda odd though, but may just be referring to him asking you a question out of the blue.
But yeah I wouldn't respond just on the basis of I hate people asking if they can ask me a question but not asking the question. Like well you already asked me one question and now I need to wait to hear the second one?
Yeah. It's not like you only get one message with X characters. They could have just got to the point. 😁
Seems more like the one of the wrong number sms spams. Those can actually be pretty fun to respond to for awhile. 🙃
Ohh. That would be a great thread to start here. Share your most amusing SMS phishing exchanges.😁
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