Most people, regardless of language, use slang. Including myself. When it comes to acronym use though, I don't often use text acronyms. I understand most early ones, but newer ones pop up now and again.

I've heard 'what's good', but never a text acronym of wsg. After my daughter mentioned that, it made sense. (Although I proceeded to forget and you're reminding me again of what it means. Haha.)

"No disrespect" is something I think I would normally understand given some context, but this message is out of the blue from a stranger I've never interacted with. I honestly thought that if this message wasn't spam and I responded, they were going to be critical or rude about something and they were perhaps trying to soften the blow upfront. Ironically, that seems to be the opposite of what your suggesting. 🤷🏽

Language can be funny.

Yeah. It's not like you only get one message with X characters. They could have just got to the point. 😁

Seems more like the one of the wrong number sms spams. Those can actually be pretty fun to respond to for awhile. 🙃

Ohh. That would be a great thread to start here. Share your most amusing SMS phishing exchanges.😁

No disrespect but may I ask you some questions

Thank you Chat GPT for translating this one for me. Haha.

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EDIT: I quizzed my three kids from different generations.

Eldest didn't know know wsg, but middle child did.

Currently, my 10-year-old is running around me in circles calling me an "unc"le.

Smh

Most definitely the last one. 😁

They sent a private message to ask if they could privately ask something? That's really really strange to me.

And if they're starting the message implying that I'm not in trouble, then that makes it even more confusing because I have no reason to think I would be in trouble.

But if this is a now common way of communicating with people, then I genuinely want to understand that. I simply never read or heard any examples of it from a stranger out of the blue.

The main reason I'm not indulging it is simply because I get multiple spam messages via SMS each week. They all start with an attempt to phish for somebody's attention. Something as simple as saying "hello" or "are you still going to make it tonight?" Then it's revealed that, whoops wrong number, and they start trying to interact with you (because, why not, it's friendly) and eventually phish for information. It's a pretty common scheme.

At first I used to have fun responding, but after doing more reading on the scheme and the unfortunate people who are being used to send those kinds of messages, I realized makes things worse for the person being forced to do that work.

What threw me off about this one is that I couldn't understand it. And for that reason, it made me wonder if it really was spam in the first place. I mean I've seen grammatically incorrect spam all the time, but this one could be intentional. So I figured I'd see if other people fully understood what it meant.

Well, to be honest, language is always hard to understand if you've never heard the words ( or acronyms) used in the first place. That's the nature the ignorance.

Out of genuine curiosity, if you were to translate the original message into plain grammatically correct English, how would you translate it?

It's not proper grammar but it's pretty common in other languages like Spanish (in fact that's pretty much the only way to ask a lot of questions). I think it's only disrespectful if it's used in a situation that demands formality.

ASL?