Re:Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy
by shocks on Sunday October 06, 2013 @05:31PM
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What does w/ mean?
Re:Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy
by pstuart on Sunday October 06, 2013 @05:33PM
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with
Re:Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy
by shocks on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:12AM
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Oh, okay. I genuinely thought it meant 'without'. Thanks for clearing up the confusion.
(I wonder if it was really worth trying to save those two letters?)
Re:Confessions of a Drug Dealer's Delivery Service Guy
by dilap on Monday October 07, 2013 @01:26AM
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It's more a stylistic thing / linguistic tic than about the savings in characters. Without would be "w/o". Like, "I'm going to the dance, w/ or w/o you."
Or imagine an album titled "W/ or w/o you". Has a nice look to it. Also, check out the Google results for "w/ or w/o you". Impressive expansion on the part of Google.
(Edit: I originally said it saved three letters, but of course, that was me forgetting to count / as a letter. :)
Of course, there are lots of people who are totally happy w/ their consumption, and have no desire to change, and/or if they did have the desire, did so.
But people w/ problems really do exist. I've personally known people who wanted to stop smoking, but found it very, very difficult.
(I feel like these stories don't get heard as much because there's a popular perception of weed not being a "hard" or a "real" drug, and so you sort of get laughed at if you say it's something you have a problem with.)