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DM is direct message and seems to have started around the same time things culturally shifted away from forums and boards more toward social media.
And now people don't even understand me, like I wrote "I'll PM you" and they said "What ๐คจ" ๐คฆ.
Guess I'll have to shift from using PM to DM... though it seems completely illogical to me, but hey, that's life I guess.
"I'll Prime Minister you"
"I'll prime meridian you"
"I'll post mortem you"
"I'll prima dona you"
"I'll Pringle Mingle you"
Gonna steal "pringle mingle", sounds like a great insult lol
"I'll dungeon master you"
"I'll deathmatch you"
That last one was probably used at some point in time though..
I somehow never realized it was a shift from forums. I've used both terms interchangeably with a bias towards DM. TIL
Same, but prefer PM. We both know what we mean :p
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