Have you see that short form online? Know
what it signifies? Your kids do, guaranteed.
“TLDR”, “tl;dr” and other variants simply mean “Too Long, Didn’t Read”. They are an admission of intellectual laziness
delivered with trademark millennial bravado; a backhanded shot in the chops to
a writer who probably labored over words about to be summarily ignored. They
are also almost invariably accompanied by a disparaging comment about the thing
not-quite-read.
Farhad Manjoo over at Slate has a fascinating piece about
how people read online. The upshot: they don’t. Well, not very well at least.