library suck: please don't touch our old books :(

[metafictionally]

First time poster, etc.

I work in the Archives & Special Collections part of my university library, which is a pretty badass job most of the time. (I mean, come on! Getting paid to look at old books and stuff?)

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[govthookers]

*SMH* Some people are just plain ol' inconsiderate.

Also, I envy your job, OP. I'd kill just to be in the same library as that copy of The Divine Comedy.

[metafictionally]

Okay I feel super internet-n00b right now but I can't for the life of me figure out what SMH means. :(

I love my job. I'm so lucky I got it, even-it was this total random stroke of chance because the other work-study girl couldn't make it back that semester, and I had happened to leave my contact information with the work-study supevisor.

[govthookers]

SMH = Shaking My Head. It's ok, though - it took me quite a while to figure out myself ^_^;

Also, you really are lucky to have gotten a job that you enjoy. I guess some things are meant to be :)

[miss_mercurial]

Hee. In that case, do you know what IAWTC means? I've been seeing it all over the place and I have no clue what it stands for. Mwahaha-having taught me the meaning of one internet phrase, I have randomly decided that you will teach me the other one that confuses the heck out of me. Thanks!

[metafictionally]

IAWTC = I agree with this comment xD

[misspell]

it's ok, it apparently means shaking my head, but most people think it means so much hate which i think is way better.

[acrimsonrelease]

I never knew either.. :P It took me awhile to figure out FTW as well. Damn all these new fangled internetisms! What happened to the good old days of: OMG, LOL, WTF, ROFL, BRB, and G2G!? Hahaha.

[winter_ruins]

The one that confused me most was wuu2? It wasn't until I went to London that I heard it, and none of my North American friends use it, but I sat there for ages trying to figure out before I met the friend who had sent it to me and was like "Woo two?"

Apparently, it means "What you up to?"

[acrimsonrelease]

Personally, I just prefer to type things out most of the time. :P Although I do find it pretty entertaining to use OMG, but actually spell it out: Oh em gee! It just sounds so funny to me...haha.

Never heard of wuu2, it seems kinda lame. :P

[aphroditeishot]

Hey, I get irritated with all the people doing their emoticons the wrong way. ;)

[acrimsonrelease]

What do you mean? I like the regular, american style emoticons:

;) :) :(

But I also like the japanese style emoticons:

^_^ >_< ^_~ @_@

And then there are the kind of backwards ones:

D: (This is my favorite one...it's like, DESPAIR FACE...and it's different because you have to turn your head to the right instead of to the left to see it right-side up.

Wow, I can't believe I just wrote a comment this long about emoticons. :P

[aphroditeishot]

*lol* I've adapted some to the Japanese style ones (though I do have a separate rant about people attempting to co-op other cultures), but it's the backwards ones that confound me. Emoticons should be positioned the same way text is read! Rargh!

But I'm basically just a cranky bitch, so ignore me. ;)

[metafictionally]

I don't know if I would necessarily consider using Japanese emoticons to be "co-opting other cultures", necessarily. I guess it would depend on your motivations, though... I'm an East Asian Studies minor, and an unashamed manga-reader and video-game-player, so I get accused of being a weaboo and of trying to be Japanese a lot. xD; And I won't deny that there are people who do that, but at least to me, I use the Japanese-based emoticons because they're just more expressive than English-based ones are.

This post has 89 comments now, I'm concerned someone's going to think there's wank brewing or smth.