today i learned that the first use of “omg" occurred in 1917 in a letter to winston fucking churchill
in case you think im fucking with you:
I see this “fact” all the time, but folks, this is actually a JOKE THIS GUY IS MAKING. He’s not using an excited acronym, he’s making FUN of the service. In the Order of St. Michael and St. George (honours given to colonial servants), you can be a Companion, a Knight Commander or a Knight Grand Cross, which were abbreviated to CMG, KCMG and KGCMG. The joke is they’re so up themselves that it stands for “Call Me God”, “Kindly Call Me God”, and “God Calls Me God”. “O.M.G./Oh My God” would be another meaningless award for people to be smug about.
tl;dr: O.M.G. in 1919 is a JOKE not an exclamation. Let us all not confuse the timeline of language innovation and make fun of colonial bullshit instead.
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