#6: LMFAO!
The other day, I was talking with a fellow parent about our teens and the new use of ASL. For decades, it meant Age/Sex/Location. It was a throwback to the days of AOL when you chatted with strangers on the internet, and no one gave you lectures about what a bad idea it was to do so.
Well, it turns out they still use ASL, but they say “asl,” and it means “as hell.” I was shocked. “As hell” has been a saying of ours for years, but to take a sacred early internet acronym and slaughter it into shorthand for one of our many Millennial terms seems odd to me. Just say, “That’s cool as hell.” It takes half a second to type!