What Is Re?
3.0BRAINROT SCORERe A minimal chat greeting meaning "I'm back" or "hello again" — a clipped form of rebonjour ("hello again") — used to announce your return to a conversation, chat room, or online space without any further ceremony.
Origin:A long-running staple of French IRC, MSN Messenger, and forum culture: rather than typing out rebonjour in full, users simply type re upon returning to a conversation after stepping away, functioning as a minimal presence-state marker — the French chat-culture equivalent of the English "back" or "I'm back" — that predates and parallels the broader family of presence-machine vocabulary (away messages, read receipts, typing indicators) documented elsewhere in this dictionary.
First Seen:2000
Peak Era:2026 (French Internet Canon)
Aura Impact:+1 Aura (A perfectly timed re right as the conversation picks back up) / -1 Aura (Typing re into a chat that's been dead for hours)
EXAMPLE USAGE
"Re, désolé j'étais parti manger."
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