RE: [ST] Where do these acronyms come from?

["Martin Harvey" <martinharvey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

- -- 
Mike Bostock
http://www.toothfairy.co.uk/
Wales & SW ST Riders
http://www.sprint-st.org/

'99 Red ST

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