Lowercase is the default
Capital letters mean effort. Effort means you care. Caring is a sign of weakness.
WrongGood morning, everyone.
Rightgm
Chapter I · The screenshot
“What does this even mean?”
It started with a friend. New to crypto, curious, not a trader. They sent a screenshot of a post that read like a ransom note: five acronyms, two insults and a rocket. The question under it was simple. What does this mean?
Explaining it took longer than it should have. Explaining the next one took longer still. By the end of the week there was a note on a phone with thirty words in it and a definition next to each.
Chapter II · The list
A glossary nobody asked for
The note became a shared doc. People added words, argued about definitions and kept the funniest examples. “jeet” had four competing explanations. “probably nothing” needed a paragraph about irony.
We realised the words weren’t the hard part. The tone was. The same sentence can be a joke, a warning or a confession.
A dictionary can explain a word. It can’t explain a whole post. For that you need something that reads the sentence the way a person on CT would.
Chapter III · The translator
Reading the whole sentence
So the dictionary got a translator. You paste a post, a language model reads it with the dictionary behind it and hands back what it actually says, in plain English, with the slang terms pulled out so you learn them as you go.
Then someone asked for the reverse. Could it make a normal sentence sound like a degen wrote it? It could. That turned out to be the part people shared most.
Chapter IV · The edition you’re reading
Open to everyone
This is the first public edition. The translator is open, the dictionary is searchable and every entry comes with an example you could actually see on your timeline tomorrow.
Plain words firstIf a definition needs its own dictionary, we rewrite it.
Real examplesEvery entry is used in a sentence someone would actually post.
No gatekeepingNobody should feel stupid for asking what “ngmi” means.