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 Too long; didn't read. Initialism used in response to a writer that doesn't know when to STFU. Most of what is found in IRL books is considered TL;DR. Notable examples of this facepalmingly annoying writing trend include The Holy Babble, everything ever written by Bill O'Reilly, and your sisters diary. TL;DR on the internets in all forms is a bannable offense, especially on Encyclopedia Dramatica. The polar opposite of TL;DR is TS;DR, which nobody uses. Mainly because it makes no sense. How can TL;DR help me? Despite the negative connotation TL;DR usually has, it can also be used to one's advantage. If your teacher assigns you a paper on some boring topic like the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791, you know that teacher won't read every single paper in your 500 seat lecture class, so you can just fire up the copypasta machine and make your paper so long and boring that she'll get about 3 pages in before giving up and scribbling a "B" on it before running off to some seedy motel with one of her other students. While you could ctrl-c and ctrl-v real facts from a reliable source, it may be easier just to paste the same information in over and over again to take up space. While you could ctrl-c and ctrl-v real facts from a reliable source, it may be easier just to paste the same information in over and over again to take up space. While you could copypaste real facts from a reliable source, it may be easier just to paste the same information in over and over again to take up space. While you could ctrl-c and ctrl-v real facts from a reliable source, it may be easier just to paste the same information in over and over again to take up space. While you could ctrl-c and ctrl-v real facts from a reliable source, it may be easier just to paste the same information in repeatedly to take up space. On TL;DR "Just yesterday, I used this in lowercase (thinking of this conversation) and it didn't raise any eyebrows. However, the general Wiktionary convention has been to put abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms in their upper-case form whenever it can be both. (Not sure why, and less sure that the same rule should be applied to Internet-isms.) OTOH, it is something of a gargantuan stretch to say that "tldr" is part of the general English lexicon (which used to be one criterion for inclusion.) Still, except for your examples, I haven't seen it with the semicolon. Perhaps different cliques use if differently? 4chan, especially, I'd think, would pride themselves in using a more 133t variant, than is generally accepted. One other note, is that punctuation in a headword is always problematic (if not here, then downstream.) When the punctuation-less variant also exists (and especially when it seems to be more common) the unadorned version should have precedence, perhaps with an alternative spellings mention and/or a soft redirect from the punctuated version." -Connel MacKenzie on TL;DR at wiktionary. (See also irony)
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