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I shit you not, the reason I have heard that they are more "accessible" is because the words that get shortened are hard to spell.

I assume the real reason is because each of these indecipherable glyphs is a s8h* to identify the "cool" and "woke" (not in the US politics sense but in a more general sense of the word) crowd from the rest.

* If you don't know this word, you're not in the club




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