“Kids LOL and OMG each other all the livelong day, but ask them to decipher the XLVI of this year’s Super Bowl and you might as well be talking Greek.”

Let’s disregard the pointlessness of clutching our pearls over the fact that kids aren’t learning roman numerals to the same degree that they did in the past. I’m just saying, if you’re going to use slang terms in a news piece, is it so much to ask that you at least use them in the correct context? 

(Source: NPR)