we learned an interesting thing today: apparently the reason it's common for non-native english speakers to use "sth" to mean "something", and vanishingly rare for native english speakers to do so, is because the abbreviation is used by native speakers almost exclusively in *dictionaries*, which non-native speakers use very frequently and native speakers much less frequently
the reason it's used in dictionaries is purely space constraints. print dictionaries are Big.
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@Felthry interesting
I mean, I didn't learn it from a dictionary but rather from a textbook but same thing really
I don't abbreviate someone as so. though
@noiob if we see an unfamiliar phrase, it's usually slang and would be easier to just ask the person who said it what it means than to find a dictionary that bothers to include this specific slang
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@noiob only rarely, and not usually for phrases where that would show up
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