Instant Messages, and Text Messaging.

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2U2 = To You, Too
AAMOF = As A Matter Of Fact
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AFAIC  = As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAICT = As Far As I Can Tell
AFK = Away From Keyboard
ASAP = As Soon As Possible
BAK = Back At Keyboard
BBL = Be Back Later
BITMT = But In The Meantime
BOT = Back On Topic
BRB = Be Right Back
BTW = By the way
C4N = Ciao For Now
CRS = Can't Remember "Stuff"
CU = See You
CUL(8R) = See You Later
CWOT = Complete Waste Of Time
CYA = See Ya
DITYID = Did I Tell You I'm Distressed?
DIY = Do It Yourself
EOD = End Of Discussion
EZ = Easy
F2F = Face To Face
FAQ = Frequently Asked Questions
FBOW = For Better Or Worse
FOAF = Friend Of A Friend
FOCL = Falling Off Chair Laughing
FWIW = For What It's Worth
FYA = For Your Amusement
FYI = For Your Information
/ga = Go Ahead
GAL = Get A Life
GBTW = Get Back To Work
GFC = Going For Coffee
GFETE = Grinning From Ear To Ear
GMTA = Great Minds Think Alike
GR&D = Grinning, Running & Ducking
GTG = Got To Go
GTGTTBR = Got To Go To The Bathroom
GTRM = Going To Read Mail
HAND = Have A Nice Day
HHOK = Ha Ha Only Kidding
HTH = Hope This Helps
IAC = In Any Case
IAE = In Any Event
IC = I See
IDGI = I Don't Get It
IMCO = In My Considered Opinion
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO = in My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO = In My Opinion
IMPE = In My Previous/Personal Experience
IMVHO = In My Very Humble Opinion
IOTTMCO = Intuitively Obvious To The Most Casual Observer
IOW  = In Other Words
IRL = In Real Life
ISP  = Internet Service Provider
IYKWIM = If You Know What I Mean
JIC = Just In Case
J/K = Just kidding
KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
L8TR = Later
LD = Later Dude
LOL = Laughing Out Loud
LTNS = Long Time No See
MorF = Male or Female, or person who asks that question
MTCW = My Two Cents Worth
NRN = No Reply Necessary
ONNA = Oh No, Not Again!
OTOH = On The Other Hand
OTTOMH = Off The Top Of My Head
OIC = Oh I See
OTF = On The Floor
OLL = Online Love
PCMCIA = People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PLS = Please
PU = That Stinks!
REHI = Hello Again (re-Hi!)
ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROTF = Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RSN = Real Soon Now
RTDox = Read The Documentation/Directions
RTFM = Read The Frickin' Manual
RUOK = Are You OK?
SNAFU = Situation Normal; All Fouled Up
SO = Significant Other
SOL = Smiling Out Loud (or You're Out of Luck)
TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TAFN = That's All For Now
TEOTWAWKI - The End Of The World As We Know It
THX = Thanks
TIA = Thanks In Advance
TLK2UL8R = Talk to you later
TMK = To My Knowledge
TOS = Terms Of Service
TPTB = The Powers That Be
TSWC = Tell Someone Who Cares
TTBOMK = To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN = Ta-Ta For Now
TTYL(8R) = Talk To You Later
TWIMC = To Whom It May Concern
Txs = Thanks
URL = Web Page Address
w/b = Welcome Back
w/o = Without
WRT = With Regard To
WTG = Way To Go
WU? = What's Up?
WWW = World Wide Web
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
Y2K = Year 2000
YGIAGAM = Your Guess Is As Good As Mine
YGWYPF = You Get What You Pay For
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary
ZZZ = Sleeping

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AAK Alive And Kicking

AAR At Any Rate

AAS Alive And Smiling

ADN Any Day Now

AFK Away From the Keyboard

AFN that's All For Now

AOTA All Of The Above

a/s/l Age/Sex/Location - (used to ask a chatter their personal information)

AV

Avatar - Graphical representation (a picture) often used in chat rooms to depict a person that is in the room and chatting.

b4 Before

BAK Back At Keyboard (I'm back)

BBL Be Back Later

BBS Be Back Soon

b/f Boyfriend (also shown as bf, B/F, or BF)

BEG Big Evil Grin

BFN Bye For Now

boot To get kicked out of a chat room, or have to restart the computer because you couldn't talk in the chat room anymore.

BR Best Regards

BRB Be Right Back

BRH Be Right Here

BTA But Then Again....

BTW By The Way

chat room A web page where people gather using software that allows them to talk to one another in real time.

CU See You

CNP Continued in Next Post (seen more on message boards than chat)

CP Chat Post

CUL8R See You Later

CUOL See You On Line

CYA See Ya

DEGT Don't Even Go There (I don't want to talk about it)

DIKU Do I Know You?

DIS Did I Say

D/L, DL, d/l, dl Downloading, or Download it.

EG Evil Grin

EM E-Mail

EMA E-mail Address (example: ?ema or ema? = what is your email address)

EOT End Of Thread (meaning end of discussion)

ez or EZ easy (one of the really old ones)

F2F Face To Face

FAQ Frequently Asked Question

FISH First In Still Here (someone who is on line TOO much)

FITB Fill In The Blanks

flame to insult someone. Used when a person asks a stupid question, or says something rude to irritate the users of a chat room or message board.

FOCL Falling Off Chair - Laughing

FTS F*** This S***

fu f*** you (If you can't figure this one out, you shouldn't be on line)

FUBAR "Fouled" Up Beyond All Repair / Recognition

FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

FWIW For What It's Worth

FYI For Your Information

GA Go Ahead

GAL Get A Life

gest Gesture ... a small multimedia file played over the internet, usually expressing

an emotion or comment.

g/f Girlfriend (also shown as gf, G/F, or GF)

GFN Gone For Now

GGOH Gotta Get Outta Here

GMTA Great Minds Think Alike

GR Gotta Run

GR&D Grinning, Running, and Ducking.

GTR Got To Run

GTRM Going To Read Mail (leaving chat room to check email)

H&K Hugs and Kisses

hack person who breaks into software, or disrupts a chat room.

HAGO Have A Good One

HB Hurry Back

Hosts Refers to the people that are running the chat room, they usually have the ability to kick a person off due to rude behavior.

HTH Hope That Helps

huggles Hugs

IAC In Any Case

IB I'm Back

IC I See

IDN I Don't kNow

IDK I Don't Know

IDTS I Don't Think So

IANAL I'm Am Not A Lawyer (expect an uninformed opinion)

IC I See

ICQ I Seek You. A computer program used to communicate instantly over the

Internet.

ILU or ILY I Love You

IM Instant Message

IMHO In My Humble Opinion (IMO = In My Opinion)

IMO In My Opinion

IOH I'm Out of Here

IOW In Other Words

IRL In Real Life

IYO In Your Opinion

JAS Just A Second

JIC Just In Case

JK Just Kidding

JMO Just My Opinion

k, K, or kk O. K.

KIT Keep In Touch

L8R Later

LMAO Laughing My Ass Off

LFFAO Laughing My F***(freaking) Ass Off

LOL Laughing Out Loud

LTNS Long Time No See

LTS Laughing To ones Self

LY I Love Ya.

MUG  Refers to a new user of that chat program, goes back to Excite VP days when the AV (or icon) that represented someone new was a picture of a coffee mug.

NE1 Anyone

newbie refers to a person who is new to an area or technology. Also seen as nube,

nooby, nubie, nb, etc.

NFW No Feasible (or F***ing) Way

NIMBY Not In My Back Yard

nm, or NM Never Mind

NP, np No Problem

NRN No Response Necessary

NT No Thanks

OBTW Oh, By The Way.

OIC Oh, I See

OF Old Fart, someone who has been around for a while.

OJ or OK Only Joking or Only Kidding

OL the Old Lady

OM the Old Man

OMG Oh My Gosh (although it's usually used with the Lords name in place of "gosh")

OT Off Topic

OTE Over The Edge (beyond common sense or beyond good taste)

OTOH On The Other Hand ...

OTOMH Off the Top of My Head ...

OTW On The Way ... I've sent a file to you, it's "On the way"

PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff (often referring to computer technology)

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Cards International Association

PCMCIA People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms (slang)

PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

peeps People

peep this Hey, listen to this, I've got some interesting news.

PITA Pain In The Ass

PLZ Please

PMJI Pardon Me for Jumping In (when you enter into a new conversation)

poof when someone leaves a chat room, often seen as *poof* as in boy he *poofed* in a hurry.

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

POS Parents are looking Over my Shoulder.

POTS Parents Over The Shoulder - (My parents are watching, I can't really talk)

PPL People

QT Cutie

RFC Request For Comments (used more in newsgroups, a page or pages that supply technical information)

rl or RL Real Life (as opposed to being online)

ROFL Rolling On Floor, Laughing

ROTF Rolling On The Floor (laughing is implied)

ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off

ROTFLMFAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing F(***ing) My Ass Off

RSN Real Soon Now

r/t Real Time (also: RT, or rt)

RTFM Read The "Flippin" Manual (response to beginner question on net, chat, newsgroups, etc.)

RU aRe yoU?

SEG Shit Eating Grin

SMS Short Message Service (more cell phones and pagers than chat rooms and

the Internet)

SNAFU Situation Normal, All "Fouled" Up

SO Significant Other

SOL Shit Out Of Luck

SOTA State Of The Art (latest technology)

SPST Same Place, Same Time

STR8 Straight (can refer to sex, or DSTR8 as in Damn Straight)

STW Search The Web

SY Sincerely Yours

SYL See You Later

TAFN That's All For Now

TC Take Care

TFH Thread From Hell (a topic or discussion that won't stop - esp. newsgroups)

TGIF Thank Goodness It's Friday

THX Thanks!

TM Text Message (often refers to communications with text over cell phones)

TMI Too Much Info. (information)

TNT 'Til Next Time

TPS That's Pretty Stupid

TPTB The Powers That Be (can sometimes refer to the people that are running the

chat room or server)

TTFN Ta-Ta For Now

TTTT These Things Take Time

TTYL Talk To You Later

TY Thank You

TYT Take Your Time

TYVM Thank You Very Much

VPPH Virtual Places Page Host

US You Suck

UV Unpleasant Visual

UW yoU're Welcome

UY Up Yours

WB Welcome Back

WC WelCome

WEU What's Eating You?

WFM Works For Me

WIIFM What's In It For Me?

WTG Way To Go

WTF What The F**K

WT? What The ...? or Who the ...?

WTGP? Want To Go Private? (move to a private chat room)

WWJD What Would Jesus Do?

YAA Yet Another Acronym

YBS You'll Be Sorry

YL Young Lady

YM Young Man

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

YR Yea, Right. (sarcastic)

*ys* You Stinker

YVW You're Very Welcome

YW You're Welcome

Emoticons: (symbols used to display feeling)

Note: This is not the "be all end all" of acronyms, lingo, and slang, etc…Most of this slang refers to chat room short hand, message board posts, Instant Message

programs, or text messaging with cell phones. This is constantly changing.

Another few side notes: 0 can be O or vice versa, 1 = won or one, (1dr = wonder) 2 = too, to, or

two, 3 = the letter E, 4 = for, four, or a prefix of sufix of 'fore. (b4 = before, 4warned = forewarned),

8 is usually either a pair of eyes, glasses, or ate, although it gets used a lot for making pictures, 9 is

a good thing (he was dressed to the 9s means he was all dressed up), B = be, C = see, G = gee, K

= OK, M = am, N = in, O = oh, R = Are, U = You, g = grin, s = smile, and they can be put together in

many different ways. Also, you will find some kids mixing numbers in with letters, so if you see "h3

l3Ft" substitute the 3 with an E, forget about the caps, and you have "he left". You will also notice 2

odd items, people tend to extend letters in chat rooms to convey emotion, so HEYYYYYYYY

BILLLLLLLL, simply means someone is expressing a lot of emotion in saying hello to Bill. Vowels

get left out a lot in chat, and that's wrd. (in this case, weird, although I've seen it mean word) And

lastly, you will see the letter z everywhere. Usually it replaces s or es (the plural of something) i.e.:

2 many billz = I have too many bills. Although that z gets tossed around a lot, as in hugzzzz, thankz,

huggelzzzz, kkz, for OK, etc. Stick with it a while, and you'll be able to catch most of it.

There are also a few terms used with the text messaging more than in chat rooms. Since my

generation doesn't really do a lot of that, I only know a few of them: 1040 means you owe me big

time (tax form?... get it?) 86 means you're done, or we are outta here. 747 means let's fly, or we're leaving.

*s*, *S*, <s>, = smile *g*, <g> = grin xoxo = hugs and

kisses

huggggggsssss = hugs

*w*, <w> = wink *g*, = giggles *k*, *K* = kiss

;-)~~~~~~~~ = giving someone

the raspberries.

(((((person))))) = giving them

a virtual hug.

\~/ = glass with a

drink. ^5 = high five

:-) .. smile ;-) ... wink <: -| ... curious :~) ... cute

:-( ... sad 8-) ... wears

glasses

:-} ... embarrassed :-/ ... perplexed

:,-( ..or ;`-( .... to cry :-< ... pouting >: -( ... angry 0:-) ... angel

:-| ... bored or no opinion :-> ...

grin/mischievous

| -) ... dreaming :-O ... shouting

:-o ... talking, or surprised >: -|| ... mad / angry

:-D ... big grin or

laugh =: -O ... scared

:-x ... keeping mouth shut

:o) ... smiles

(w/nose)

:-))))))) ... lots of

smiles ;-P ... sticking tongue out

;-)~ ... sexy tongue - or drunk ;~) ... being cute c["] ... coffee mug [_]> ... another cup

:-> ... grin/mischievous <:-| ... curious |-| ... sound asleep :-x .. I'm keeping my mouth shut

leaving. 143 means I love you (don't ask me why") and 360 means I love you back. % is usually to

replace the double o 'oo' , as in T%K means took, & replaces 'and' so b& would be band,

I'm sure there is a ton of this lingo I don't know (hey, the kids have to have some things to

themselves). You are welcome to send me any I don't

have, perhaps I'll post it. That about wraps thing up for now, so ......

L8R All, tnt, ttyl, k?