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THE other day, I saw a meme on my Facebook timeline, which asked: “When was the last time you said ‘BRB’?”

BRB, for those of you who were not born in the late ‘90s – or was sleeping through it – is the acronym for “be right back”. It was arguably one of the most popular acronyms used back then because it was necessary.

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