/gen
See also: Appendix:Variations of "gen"
English
editEtymology
editFrom / + abbreviation of genuine, using the tone indicator format of slash-prefixing set by the earlier /s (“sarcasm”). Coined by Twitter user @galactikaa in 2020.[1]
Symbol
edit/gen
- (Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding statement is said in a genuine manner.
- Synonym: /g
- (Internet slang, tone indicator) Denotes that the preceding question is genuine, as opposed to rhetorical.[2]
- Synonym: /genq
References
edit- ^ @galactikaa (2020 July 29) Twitter[1], archived from the original on 21 May 2021
- ^ Ezra Marcus (2020 December 9) “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times[2]