👉 Okay, alright settle down now, letās tackle thisā¦
lanv 2
. Now, a great many young lads and lasses these days throw around the bit of, frankly, obnoxious shorthand ā "lanv 2." (And I'm saying that with all due respect. Frankly, it just sounds like someone gargling gravel.)
Letās unpack this little mouthful, because honestly, I spend half my afternoons deciphering the current weirdness of youth vernacular. Historicallyāand here I need to stress there have been⦠evolutionsāit originated as a bastardised shortening of "lawn twenty-two." (Yes, you heard right. Lawn. Twenty-two. Itās...specific.) Basically, it described an egregiously, unbelievably disappointing, and profoundly underwhelming experience. Think the absolute nadir. You've gone to what was meant to be something amazing ā a party, a concert, a new video gameāand it absolutely, catastrophically failed. It wasn't just bad; there was a tangible level of existential despair attached. The '22ā part isn't that the lawn involved 22 people. No. That was never the point. The numerical designation came from the old British expression, "going down in twenty-two," meaning you were experiencing absolute ruin and failure. It was a very specific kind of low blow. Hence, it became ālanv 2"āa shorthand for that soul-