[Air-L] IMHO: Humble or Honest?

[Selene Y Arrazolo]

I believe I was one of those that conflated TBH with IMHO as I always
considered thought it was "honest".

On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:16 AM, Michelle C Forelle <mcforelle at gmail.com>
wrote:

> XKCD heard us debating this, settles this debate (and a few others)
>
> https://xkcd.com/1989/
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 11:08 AM, Rafal Zaborowski <
> rafal.zaborowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've always known it as 'humble', but could it be that 'honest' emerged
> > later, along with the rising popularity of 'tbh' - to be honest? Just a
> > guess though.
> >
> > Rafal
> >
> > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 7:03 PM, Mark Chen <markchen at u.washington.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The urban dictionary examples really make it seem like it's context
> > > sensitive. When offering advice, imho means humble. When offering
> > > criticism, it seems to be honest...
> > >
> > > mark
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 10:35 AM Gabi <gabi at gabi.today> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The current numbers on this buzzfeed quiz are going for honest -
> > > >
> > > > https://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/what-do-you-think-
> > > imho-means?utm_term=.cmn9mJgm5#.dcJ4Lk1LK
> > > >
> > > > Which is also what I thought it was...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 02.05.2018 19:19, Sarah Quinton wrote:
> > > > > humble
> > > > >
> > > > > Sarah
> > > > >
> > > > > On 2 May 2018 at 17:15, Mark Chen <markchen at u.washington.edu>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >> Yeah. humble.
> > > > >>
> > > > >> mark
> > > > >>
> > > > >> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 8:52 AM Glatt,ZA (pgr) <
> Z.A.Glatt at lse.ac.uk>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >>> humble!
> > > > >>>
> > > > >>>
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> > > > >>> Hey folks,
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> > > > >>> Was wondering what y'all thought of this -- does the "H" in IMHO
> > > stand
> > > > >> for
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> > > > >> You see before you *Mark Chen, PhD*.
> > > > >> Above his head appears a label that changes every time you look at
> > it
> > > > >> between "*Hoodie-Wearing Games Scholar Thug*," "*PT Lecturer at UW
> > > > >> Bothell*," and
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> >)
> > ,
> > > > check
> > > > >> out his website (*markdangerchen.net* <http://markdangerchen.net/
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> > > You see before you *Mark Chen, PhD*.
> > > Above his head appears a label that changes every time you look at it
> > > between "*Hoodie-Wearing Games Scholar Thug*," "*PT Lecturer at UW
> > > Bothell*," and
> > > "*President of the United States, purveyor of alternative facts*."
> > > Do you send him a tweet (*@mcdanger* <http://twitter.com/mcdanger>),
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