Which mechanism explains why initialisms in netspeak like 'IMO' sometimes shift in meaning among different online communities?

💡 Explanation

Semantic drift causes initialisms to acquire new meanings within specific online communities because of shared contexts and repeated usage; therefore, 'IMO' can mean different things, rather than phonetic matching or universal syntactic parsing controlling meaning.

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