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landie | 18:42 Sat 28th May 2005 | Technology
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I don't understand some of the messages on this site, I guess I'm getting old.

Contributors regularly use abbreviations, the meanings of  which, I haven't a clue. Can anyone help please with a definative list of such and their meanings. TVM :o)

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Sorry I don't, can you tell me what lol means?  This appears a lot and I haven't got a clue either.
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I used to think it meant 'lots of love' but apparrently it's 'laughs out loud'.

I guess some of the more popular ones are ...

btw = by the way, imo = in my opinion, imho = in my honest opinion, lol is indeed laughs out loud...

can't think of any others that I've seen off the top of my head!

I've seen IMHO opinion a lot on Stock trading sites, I guess it's come up in court by now, since it's important to qualify remarks! IMHO!

LOL grew a bit into:

ROFL. Rolling Over the Floor Laughing

LMAO. Laughing My Azz Off.

LMFAO.

OMG Oh My God.

ROFLMFAO. which I like.

I have some medics in the family, who have learned about 100 each from the old days of GP scriblings. See if you can work them out:

NFL, NFF.

AEIOU DDD

AWTF

BUNDY

NYDN

OAP

And a personal favourite, one that the ABEditor can use on his techies: PEBCAK.

And PCMCIA, which I also like.

Click here for a website with some of the common abbreviations.

IMHO - I tohught that was in my HUMBLE opinion.  Oh well.

My mum once got me a "little book of txt spk" - the sort that are sold at the counter in HMV and the like.  You could casually peruse one of those and it may help. 

I must add that, IMHO, using txt spk when typing on a site like this is just sheer laziness and it really gets my goat!  It makes the user look thick, even if they aren't!

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Thank you, everyone, for your replies. MargeB my confusion is even greater now.
OK Marge put us out of our misery, I never was any good at dingbats.
may i be allowed to contribute my own personal one?- TUFTI
THANK U FOR THE INFO ( good eh?)

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