Abbreviations, acronyms and ETLAs
Nov. 29th, 2004 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lprovenI've been doing this online-discussion-communities thing for about 13y now - IOW, a *lot* longer than most of you lot. And I was doing Internet chat about 5-6y before that. 1 result of this is that I tend to use a lot of abbreviations. At first, when I found that most LJ types didn't understand them, I curtailed it, but now, I don't bother so much & I get asked less often - though still occasionally. Mind you, I have now gone out with someone who was born less than a year before I got my first email address. [F/X: creaks painfully in agèd fashion] Which is a bit scary. But hey.
I find them very useful, things like IMHO, IME, IOW, TTBOMK, AFAIK, AFAICR, IIRC, IIWY, IANAL, HTH, HAND, WGAF & URxAICM£5; then come the chat ones, like LOL, ROFL, [Helicopter], BRB, AFK, TTYS, TTYL, BBFN, TTFN, SYS & OMG; & there are the tech trade in-jokes, from BOFHs via Lusers to LARTs who are a PITA and won't RTFM resulting in PEBCAK errors, sometimes resulting in T|N>K. Recently I learned a new 1: FMTYEWTK or MTYEWTK.
But I /do/ like today's.
LTFG. (And no, it's not _Like the Finest Gold_.)
WTF are you on about, man?
WTF = what the fuck?
IMHO = in my humble opinion
IME = in my experience
IOW = in other words
TTBOMK = to the best of my knowledge
AFAIK = as far as I know
AFAICR = as far as i can remember
IIRC = if I recall correctly
IIWY = if I were you
IANAL = I am not a lawyer
HTH = hope that helps
HAND = have a nice day
WGAF = who gives a fuck?
URxAICM£5 = you are x and I claim my five pounds. It's a reference to someold radio show I've forgotten EDIT: I sit corrected. It's an ancient newspaper promotional gimmick. Ironic observation of identity. "You spent *how* much? FFS! UR Bill Gates AICM£5!"
FFS = for fuck's sake
EDIT: Some more to make this a handy cut-out-&-keep guide.
YMMV = your mileage may vary
MRDA = Mand Rice-Davies Applies ( = "They would say that, wouldn't they?")
IRL = in real life
LOL = laughs out loud
ROFL = rolls on floor laughing
[Helicopter] = the noise one makes. Rofl rofl rofl rofl...
BRB = be right back
AFK = away from keyboard
TTYS = talk to you soon
TTYL = talk to you later
BBFN = bye bye for now
TTFN = tata for now
SYS = see you soon
OMG = oh my god
BOFH = bastard operator from hell
Lusers = a user who's a loser. Viz, most of them.
LART = luser attitude readjustment tool
PITA = pain in the arse
RTFM = read the fucking manual
PEBCAK = problem exists between chair and keyboard
T|N>K = Unix speak. T piped through N redirected to K. T = tea, N = nose, K = keyboard
FMTYEWTK = far more than you ever wanted to know
MTYEWTK = more than you ever wanted to know about
*bold*, /italics/ and _underlined_
Oh yeah. ETLA = extended TLA.
What's a TLA?
Three-letter acronym.
And finally
LTFG
Which is, of course...
Learn To Fucking Google
I think I will be using this one a lot.
(And indeed JFGI: just fucking Google it. Ta,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gummitch. I feel like some oral historian already.)
Head's distinctly better today, incidentally. Well enough to go and fixnolley's PC for him. Again. Well, actually watch it not need fixing, really, and remove Kazaa for him, which was the cause of thousands of popups and finally a crash.
Is there a modern equivalent of K++ or KLite for Windows, anyone?
I find them very useful, things like IMHO, IME, IOW, TTBOMK, AFAIK, AFAICR, IIRC, IIWY, IANAL, HTH, HAND, WGAF & URxAICM£5; then come the chat ones, like LOL, ROFL, [Helicopter], BRB, AFK, TTYS, TTYL, BBFN, TTFN, SYS & OMG; & there are the tech trade in-jokes, from BOFHs via Lusers to LARTs who are a PITA and won't RTFM resulting in PEBCAK errors, sometimes resulting in T|N>K. Recently I learned a new 1: FMTYEWTK or MTYEWTK.
But I /do/ like today's.
LTFG. (And no, it's not _Like the Finest Gold_.)
WTF are you on about, man?
WTF = what the fuck?
IMHO = in my humble opinion
IME = in my experience
IOW = in other words
TTBOMK = to the best of my knowledge
AFAIK = as far as I know
AFAICR = as far as i can remember
IIRC = if I recall correctly
IIWY = if I were you
IANAL = I am not a lawyer
HTH = hope that helps
HAND = have a nice day
WGAF = who gives a fuck?
URxAICM£5 = you are x and I claim my five pounds. It's a reference to some
FFS = for fuck's sake
EDIT: Some more to make this a handy cut-out-&-keep guide.
YMMV = your mileage may vary
MRDA = Mand Rice-Davies Applies ( = "They would say that, wouldn't they?")
IRL = in real life
LOL = laughs out loud
ROFL = rolls on floor laughing
[Helicopter] = the noise one makes. Rofl rofl rofl rofl...
BRB = be right back
AFK = away from keyboard
TTYS = talk to you soon
TTYL = talk to you later
BBFN = bye bye for now
TTFN = tata for now
SYS = see you soon
OMG = oh my god
BOFH = bastard operator from hell
Lusers = a user who's a loser. Viz, most of them.
LART = luser attitude readjustment tool
PITA = pain in the arse
RTFM = read the fucking manual
PEBCAK = problem exists between chair and keyboard
T|N>K = Unix speak. T piped through N redirected to K. T = tea, N = nose, K = keyboard
FMTYEWTK = far more than you ever wanted to know
MTYEWTK = more than you ever wanted to know about
*bold*, /italics/ and _underlined_
Oh yeah. ETLA = extended TLA.
What's a TLA?
Three-letter acronym.
And finally
LTFG
Which is, of course...
Learn To Fucking Google
I think I will be using this one a lot.
(And indeed JFGI: just fucking Google it. Ta,
gummitch. I feel like some oral historian already.) Head's distinctly better today, incidentally. Well enough to go and fix
nolley's PC for him. Again. Well, actually watch it not need fixing, really, and remove Kazaa for him, which was the cause of thousands of popups and finally a crash.Is there a modern equivalent of K++ or KLite for Windows, anyone?
