19 November 2008

Week 9, Part 2 - Fun with Language redux

I hope that everyone has been discovering new fun phrases to use [or that may make you cringe, depending]. We've got a good number of comments to the initial posting, so it's about time to post the translations or expansions of the acronyms for those who decided not to search all of them out -

Let's see if we were right about the familiar ones, and learn some new ones!
jjs

5 comments:

tcalodols said...

JGI – Just Google It
DAMHIK – Don’t Ask Me How I Know
ROTFL – Rolling On The Floor Laughing
NNBOBOTWNNBOB!TODPIANEBOBOTW – 99 bottles of beer on the wall, etc.
IDK – I Don’t Know
AFAICT – As Far As I Can Tell
IANAL – I Am Not A Lawyer

jjs

Belinda said...

AWHFY - Are we having fun yet?

AFZ - Acronym Free Zone
TMA - Too Many Acronyms
DUNA - Don't Use No Acronyms
IHA - I Hate Acronyms
IDA - I dislike acronyms
NAFOA - Not a fan of acronyms
DRA - Don't Recognize Acronyms
SSEWBA - Someday Soon, Everything Will Be Acronyms (I hope not!!!)

There you have it! Evidently, the use of acronyms to shorten messages is not as widely adored as one might think!

Tom Gill said...

TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
IMO - In My Opinion
10Q - Thank You (say it fast and it sounds like thank you!) so I made it up in high school, sue me.

newer:

404 - lost
BTCABE - Burning The Candle at Both Ends

and to the anonymous comment after mine asking about --tom

--tom = The Omnipotent Master

Rosemary Henders said...

AAAAA:American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
ABITHIWTITB:A Bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush;
ACORN:A Completely Obsessive Really Nutty person (for those of us just coming down off the campaign high); FYM: For Your Misinformation; HIOOCHelp, I'm Out Of Coffee;
ILAI Love Acronyms;
MIHAP: May I Have Your Attention Please
TT Big tease (my personal favorite)

RH

Heidi said...

Mine were:

LU - Love you
TTYL - Talk to you later
GMTA - Great minds think alike
BTW - By the way
BRB - Be right back