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[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 77 points 4 months ago

Not Employed, in Education, or Training.

[-] Huschke@lemmy.world 36 points 4 months ago

I swear, the older I get, the harder it is to keep up with these acronyms.

[-] notapantsday@feddit.org 74 points 4 months ago

That's a common phenomenon, it's called AAAAA (age associated absence of acronym awareness).

[-] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Damn that's good. Gonna put it in my back pocket.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Oh, so you're gonna GIMP it? (Going In My Pocket)

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I like how, when I'm frustrated with all these new acronyms I don't understand and I just scream... AAAAA! It's 100% accurate!

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

I'm going to have to whip that one out in a work meeting one of these days. I know a few people will love it and a few people will love to hate it...

[-] momocchi@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

This is not a new acronym by any means

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 28 points 4 months ago

NEET is a term that came out of the 90s in the UK, and was a borrowed acronym in Japan after that. not a new term by any stretch of the imagination and is barely younger than the modern internet itself.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago

In academic circles, sure, but it's fairly recent that it has been seeping into internet language, mostly through 4channers who started using the term for themselves in a self-deprecating way.

[-] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

its often used in circles relating to japan for awhile, mainly anime as shows like Welcome to the NHK(2006) cover it. still technically speaking, not a new term, and i wpuldnt be suprised if /A/ on 4chan used it for more than a decade now. definitely not recent.

[-] SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well I'm sure it's been in use for a while, but not in mainstream internet lingo is my point.

Speaking for myself, I only learned about this term a year or so ago, because I remember looking it up, and I remember thinking: huh, so there's a word for that now. Since then, I've seen it come up several times, almost always in greentext posts like this one.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

We actually used to see this term more often back around the 2010s when 4chan had a bigger presence

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

I learned about this acronym in a Geography class in school, 15 years ago, and this wasn't in an English speaking country. So it's old enough and common enough that it was part of the curriculum even though it was a foreign acronym.

[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

It's the academic and more polite way of referring to losers who never did anything with their lives.

[-] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

I only know these thanks(?) to the Internet, honestly.

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

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[-] blazeknave@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

*doggone acronyms

Ftfy

this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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