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See also: Appendix:Variations of "gen"
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Abbreviation of genuine, with the tone indicator format of slash-prefixing set by the earlier /s (“sarcasm”). Coined by Twitter user galactika! in 2020.[1]
Symbol[edit]
/gen
- (Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding question is genuine, as opposed to rhetorical.[2]
- (Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding statement is said in a genuine manner.
References[edit]
- ^ galactika! (2020 July) “galactika! on Twitter”, in Twitter[1], archived from the original on 21 May 2021
- ^ “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in New York Times[2], 2020 December 9