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RE: [ST] Where do these acronyms come from?
Thought you might find this useful....
Acronym Definition
<BG> Big Grin
<G> Grin
<S> Smile
<VBG> VeryBigGrin
<WEG> Wide Evil Grin
2 Too, to, two
2DAY Today
2MORO Tomorrow
4 For, Four
AFAIK As far as I know
AFK Away from keyboard
AKA Also known as
AOL America On Line
ATB All the best
B Be
B4 Before
BAK Back at keyboard
BBL Be back later
BCNU Be seeing you
BFN Bye for now
BRB Be right back
BTDT Been there done that
BTW By the way
CUL8R See you later
F2T Free to talk
FB Furrowed brow (angry!)
FSD Fools seldom differ
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information
GAL Get a life
GD&R Grinning, ducking and running (after snide remark)
GD&WVV Grinning, ducking and walking very, very fast
GMTA Great minds think alike
GOTO Go to
GTRM Going to read mail
HAND Have a nice day
HTH Hope this helps
IAE In any event
IANAL I am not a lawyer (but ...)
IMHO In my humble (honest) opinion
IMO In my opinion
IOW In other words
IRC Internet Relay Chat
L8R Later
LOL Lots of laughs
NRN No reply necessary (e-mail)
OIC Oh I see
OTOH On the other hand
PCM Please call me
PITA Pain in the a***
PMJI Pardon my jumping in
RL Real Life (as opposed to the NET)
ROFL Rolling on floor laughing
RSN Real soon now
RTFM Read the f***ing manual
RUOK Are you okay ?
SOL Sooner or later
SWIM See what I mean
SYL See you later
SysOp System Operator
THNQ Thank you
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks in advance
TTFN Ta-ta for now
TTYL Talk to you later
WAN2 Want to
WRT With regards to
X Kiss
XLNT Excellent
Emoticons
:-) Smile
:-D Big Smile
8^) Another Smile, but seen from the side
(-: Smile (user is left-handed or Australian)
:-{) Smile (user has a mustache)
:-{)} Smile (user has mustache and beard)
8-) Smile (user wears glasses)
;-) Wink
:-* Kiss
:-O Mouth open in amazement
:-Q Tongue out in disgust
- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-st@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike
Bostock
Sent: 06 April 2002 00:10
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ST] Where do these acronyms come from?
In your message regarding [ST] Where do these acronyms come from? dated
Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:39:56 -0500, rmasiak said that ...
>r- What the heck is ROFLAO.
Should be 'ROTFL' expanded to 'ROTFLMAO'
I think he has missed a couple of consonants, AFAIK.
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Mike Bostock
http://www.toothfairy.co.uk/
Wales & SW ST Riders
http://www.sprint-st.org/
'99 Red ST
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