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"Sm" seems too short but "smth" has been used for decades.
Smh
I still don't know what that means , but I always read it as "Shit in My Hands"
i think it's 'shaking my head'
It's def shaking my head (in disappointment). I used to think people were misspelling stg (I swear to god) in reddit til I asked there one day.
On your standard keyboard accidentally typing m when you meant t would be quite tricky.
It means shake my hand, you're welcome
I guess that's what it means now
Well that's a different thing, as it's not an abbreviation, but an acronym. Which is why that actually gave me pause after years of using "smth" online, because I always read "smh" as "something" instead of "shaking my head."
It always bothered me because "shaking my head" isn't even a figure of speech people say, so how the fuck can you use an acronym form of the expression.
It was a figure of writing in old chatrooms and bulletin boards.
Much like how gifs work, I presume.
Like you just imagine someone shaking their head. Just kine you imagine someone smiling when I type :)
The thing is, shaking ones head isn't as universal of a symbol as smiling. Some cultures have nods and shakes the other way around. Which seems somewhat weird.
Lol