The initialism LLAS, meaning “love you like a sister,” isn’t a texting phenomenon—it goes back 30 or 40 years to when girls would write each other letters. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Love You Like a Sister”
Another bit of college slang. Talk to you later. Lilas, lilas, love you like a sister. That’s right.
You knew that one? Yeah, that’s old. Oh, is it old? Yeah. How old is it? Decades. It’s not. Maybe even.
Maybe millennia? No, really? No, it’s probably like 30 or 40 years. Is it? Yeah, wow. It goes hand in hand
with all the string of acronyms
that girls used to write
in their letters to each other.
Yeah.
Oh, how did I miss that?
I guess I love them differently.
