What Does This Mean?
A tone indicator typed at the end of a message to mark that the statement carries a negative connotation or negative intent, for example a complaint or criticism that is not a joke. It is used in text chat and on social platforms, especially by people who find tone hard to read in plain text.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Your cover letter reads like a template /neg, but the second paragraph is strong.""
LORE & ORIGIN
Wikipedia's tone indicator article lists /neg (also /nc) as the tag for a negative connotation, alongside /pos for a positive one, and says the article's claims about them need citations. It gives no date or place of origin for /neg itself, and traces the wider habit to /s for sarcasm, which comes from the older </sarcasm> tag idea, with an emoticon precedent from 1982. No dated first use of /neg is documented in the pages opened. The existing entries on tone policing and the slash tags /j and /srs cover related uses.
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