• pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It might not have been a message, it might have been a WhatsApp video call. In which case ‘whatsapped me’ is a little shorter than ‘just video called me’ or ‘just WhatsApp video called me’.

    The app is over a decade in popular use, people will integrate it into language.

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      Yeah those two characters of savings will really translate into something significant