ttyl
Posted on 2022-08-10
My wife, vivian, started the ttyl meme back in the BBS days. TTY and TTL are both modem speak. TTY means serial port or virtual port. TTL is Time To Live or hop limit. The meaning of ttyl is obvious.
This comes up because the author of ttyl, ttfn, l8r g8r, and yolo is being censored in libraries. Thanks to my daughter, Sarah, who was also a sysop back in the day, for her rant.
"I'm really angry tonight. The only way I could be more angry is if I were still in charge of the young adult collection at CCJPL. If I were forced to weed a book that was getting checked out because it's "outdated and would have been weeded if there weren't controversy" is really upsetting. I was part of the team that added ttyl to the collection when it first came out. We picked books based on reviews from respected library journals as well as what we thought our library patrons would like. I read the book because I knew there was controversy and I wanted to be able to speak from a knowledgeable place. Luckily while I was there the book wasn't challenged, it blows my mind that almost 20 years later it's being censored and pulled from the library shelves."
"For anyone that is interested. I've read the first two of the series ttyl and ttfn. I dont think I've actually read the one they were trying to censor (l8r g8r). I also just found out there's a 4th book yolo which I've definitely not read."
It is not the authors that suffer from this. There is probably a renewed interest in this series because of the censorship. The people being hurt are the young adults who could benefit from finding these books at the library.
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