TL;DR or tl;dr, short for "too long; didn't read", is
internet slang to say that some text being replied to has been ignored because of its length. It is also used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article.
The phrase dates back to at least 2002,
and was added to the
Oxford Dictionaries Online
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford. While the dictionary content on Lexico came from OUP, th ...
in 2013.
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Abstract
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Attention economy
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BLUF – bottom line up front
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Information overload
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Internet culture
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Lexicographic information cost
Lexicographic information cost is a concept within the field of lexicography. The term refers to the difficulties and inconveniences that the user of a dictionary believes or feels are associated with consulting a particular dictionary or dictionar ...
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Long-form journalism
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Acronyms
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