[Air-L] IMHO: Humble or Honest?

[Sally]

I've been wondering if it is a generational thing--or if it changed course sonehow through the use of texting or people guessing. In early Internet usegroups, pre web, like ECHO, 'humble' was the 'H.' 

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> On May 2, 2018, at 9:41 AM, Katya Delaney <katya at praytellagency.com> wrote:
> 
> Where do you think "honest" comes from? Do you know of any places where I
> can track do an etymology? To my understanding, it originated on
> newsgroups...
> 
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 11:15 AM, 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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>>> Subject: [Air-L] IMHO: Humble or Honest?
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>>> Hey folks,
>>> 
>>> Was wondering what y'all thought of this -- does the "H" in IMHO stand for
>>> Humble or Honest?
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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>),
>> check out his website (*markdangerchen.net* <http://markdangerchen.net/>),
>> or respond to this email?
>> He looks at you expectantly with a smile.
>> 
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