I note the occurrence of another JLF milestone: first use of “LOL” in an article. Terry Stoops is your answer to that future trivia question. Stoops navigates the bizarre array of acronyms scattered across government education documents as if sprayed from a shotgun loaded with Alpha-Bits (part of a healthy breakfast!), and he uses the Internet slang in mocking it.
ASTRTWT ? which reminds me of the first time I encountered that particular Internet slang. I wrote,
OK, IMO I’m fairly up-to-date on Internet acronyms, but OTTOMH I can’t think of what “ATSRTWT” means. FWIW, this isn’t a case of CRS, because AFAIK I’ve never encountered this one B4 IMPE. OTOH, maybe I did, but IAC, my reaction to it was a classic WTF. IOW, IDGI ? but then again, IANAL. BTW: HHOK! (FYI, while I have LOL’d, I have never LMAO’d nor ROTF’d. I once FOMC, but IIRC it was not from L. I was DOMA. J/K!)
Anway, NBD & NRN. L8R!
Then I proposed several explanations for it. But Hal Young provided enlightenment on that score.
