Editing 1989: IMHO

The conversation begins with a reference to the controversy between whether IMHO stands for "in my '''honest''' opinion" or "in my '''humble''' opinion". Some older Internet users, including Cueball, use the H to mean "humble", which Cueball references as being the norm in the 1990s. However, many younger Internet users, including, apparently, Ponytail, use it to mean "honest", which became the norm after another SMS abbreviation, TBH (to be honest) became popular c. 2011 [https://trends.google.de/trends/explore?date=all&q=tbh,imho]. However, the joke veers into absurdity with Ponytail sharing her unusual opinions on other Internet controversies, including:  

*Believing the G in {{w|GIF}} (Graphics Interchange Format) is silent, so she pronounces it "if", as opposed to the two main camps claiming it should be either a soft G (as in "giantess") or a hard G (as in "graphics"). Some people (okay, maybe just one) pronounce it as an "h" (like how Gs are pronounced in Spanish).

*Believing that the S in SMDH ("Shaking My Damn Head" or "So Much Damn Hate") stands for "swallowing".

*Believing that the G in OMG ("Oh My God" or "Oh My Goodness") stands for either "giantess" or "genitals."

*Believing a viral picture of {{w|The dress|a dress in very bad lighting}} is actually black and white. For context, the usual perceptions are black and blue to some people and white and gold to others (the manufacturer eventually confirmed it to be black and blue). Though the dress may also appear blue and brown to some people, virtually no individual perceives the dress as black and white. The dress was previously mentioned in [[1492: Dress Color]].

 

*Using {{w|tab key|tabs}} after {{w|Full stop|periods}}, instead of the two main opposing camps of using either one or two {{w|Sentence spacing|spaces}}.

 

Before the 20th century, it was common typographical practice to use an em-space (or other similar wide-space) between sentences. In the 1930s, common practice was to use smaller inter-sentence spacing, and by the 1950s, inter-sentence spaces were the same size as inter-word spaces.  Although modern style guides all insist on single-spacing between sentences, many people prefer to include two spaces, possibly out of habit from typewriter usage (which commonly used two spaces to mimic the 19th century typographic standards).  (See also: [[1285: Third Way]].) Tabs vs. Spaces also refer to the programmers' debate on how to {{w|Indentation (typesetting)#Indentation in programming|indent}} code correctly.

 

:Cueball: I thought the "H" in "IMHO" was "humble," but Buzzfeed ran a poll and "honest" won.

:Ponytail: Are you sure? I always used it to mean "honest."

:Megan: ...What?!

:Cueball: It was definitely "humble" in the 1990s.

:Cueball: Maybe people who picked it up after the rise of "TBH" in 2011 interpreted it as "honest" and used it that way.

:Ponytail: "Swallowing."

:Ponytail: "Giantess" or "genitals."

:Ponytail: Black and white.

:Megan: Is the database language "sequel" or "ess cue ell"?

:Ponytail: I've always said "squill."