I don’t see it well myself either, but I’m Greek so I’m used to just read these letters.
This is great. It’s like the inverse of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” because you understand the greek and don’t see the picture that would come from not knowing the letters.
Yeah, a friend of mine uses OTL as a “head-desk” emoticon and every time I’m just seeing letters and trying to expand the initialism.
It’s easier when it’s mixed or impossible punctuation, like O.O or T_T or things like that - signaling that “normal rules of letters combining into words are not valid here, look for a different pattern”
I think it’s because it looks like a classical version of UwU, i.e. think of the Θ as eyes, and the ώ as the “snout”
ΘωΘ
I don’t see it well myself either, but I’m Greek so I’m used to just read these letters.
This is great. It’s like the inverse of the idiom “It’s all Greek to me” because you understand the greek and don’t see the picture that would come from not knowing the letters.
Yeah, a friend of mine uses OTL as a “head-desk” emoticon and every time I’m just seeing letters and trying to expand the initialism.
It’s easier when it’s mixed or impossible punctuation, like O.O or T_T or things like that - signaling that “normal rules of letters combining into words are not valid here, look for a different pattern”
Try as I might I can’t see the OTL emoticon
Head: O - Arms, neck, and torso: T - Kneeling legs: L