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Abbreviations, acronyms and ETLAs
Nov. 29th, 2004 02:08 amI'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? )
Head's distinctly better today, incidentally. Well enough to go and fix![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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?
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? )
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?
