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Internet Abbreviations
I’m afraid I am a bit of a fuddy-duddy when it comes to tech talk and Internet abbreviations. I thought LOL meant “Lots of Love” until my son-in law set me straight and I discovered I was being ridiculed, not caressed. Even Cardinal Sean O'Malley writes a blog now and seems to know some of these abbreviations. We better get with it.
This is a partial list of “hip” expressions being used these days in blogs, on cell phones and Internet forums. If you know of others, how about adding to the list?
AFAICS
As Far As I Can See
AFAIK
As Far As I Know
BTW
By The Way
FWIW
For What It's Worth
HTH
Hope That Helps
IANAL
I Am Not A Lawyer
IIRC
If I Remember Correctly
IME
In My Experience
IMO
In My Opinion
IMHO
In My Humble Opinion
IRL
In Real Life
IYKWIM
If You Know What I Mean
LMAO
Laughing My Arse Off
LOL
Laughs Out Loud (or alternatively Lots Of Laughs)
ROFL
Rolls On Floor Laughing
RTFM
Read The Fudging Manual
TANSTAAFL
There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
WTF
What The Fudge?
YMMV
Your Mileage May Vary
What can you add?
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ty = thank you
yw = you're welcome
BD/SM = beat down by Spyro Mytorkostas
CU = see you
This isn't an abbreviation, but I use "grrrr..." when someone is goofing on me. I only do it in IM... "grrr" doesn't work in blogging or message boards. My friend Lori uses "hissssss" for the same basic purpose.
GTG... Got To Go!
And even more irritating than abbreviations? Those GD emoticons! There are about 14,000 of them:
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/emoticons.html
L8R
You should also include "pwned," which means that you've totally got the better of someone.
"Omygod" is good, but only "OMG" counts.
I think the most common ones are:
LOL, WTF, BRB, BBL (be back later), TTYL, TTFN, ROFL, ROFL, LMAO, ROFLMAO, RTFA (article), RTFM, BTW, AFK, GTG, IMO, and IMHO.
WTNNS
It stands for
Welcome
To
Nineteen
Ninety
Seven
I just heard of this great site you should "check out" in "cyberspace" or the "information superhighway", try keyword infoseek
Here is a decent reference BTW...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_slang_phrases
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DH=darling or dear husband
TTYL=talk to you later
TTFN=ta ta for now