okey...this is a very random thread...dont bad rep me though..
i think most people dont know where the phrase OMG and ZOMG come from...so if you wanna know...please read ^^
The origins of the phrase ZOMG go all the way back to the Ancient Greeks.
The Ancient Greek letter Ω or "omega", was the 24th and final letter of the Greek alphabet.
it also had passed into colloquial speech as an interjection of shock and amazement. Omega meant,"the end".
In the 1970s, several overeducated ARPANET users, thinking themselves clever, started again attemped to bring back the usage of the exclamation, "OMEGA!", and they were succesful to some degree. However on October 17, 1975 a user at UCLA made the typo, "OMG! My new Altair is sweeet!". Due partly to its highly amusing pronunciation, and partly due to the bandwidth it saved, it stuck, and omg soon surpassed the popularity of omega. Other users, in an attempt to lightheartedly mock this fellow, picked up the use of "OMG!" and spread to various networks, BBSs, and ultimately the Internet.
Eventually, an underground group of internet hackers, again thinking themselves rather clever, decided to add a "Z", the final letter of the modern Roman alphabet, to the "OMG!", as a sort of nod to it's origins. This was also intended to double upon the phrase's original meaning and increase the phrase's hyperbole; rather than simply being "Ω", the end, it now meant "ZΩ", the end of ends, or the ultimate of ultimates. It was only recently discovered via newly decrypted communications that this innovation went as far back as 1992, and it stayed mostly underground until the 2000s.
So OMG doesnt mean Oh My GoD, and i really dont know what ZOMG would mean if it really was Oh My GoD, so ZOMG to that ^^
anyways...i didnt write that piece myself...im to ZOMG for that..you can probably find it somewhere on the internet...but i felt like saving you people the trouble...and never say that OMG is Oh My God,,cause if you did..that would be Oh My GoD....^^
since this is a thread...i need to ask something...who knew this..the real meaning of ZOMG?
PS: i am so wrong with what i wrote about the ZOMG meaning^^...and i thank the people who posted on this thread for making that clear to me ^^
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