IMHO, LOL, BTWM,,, what does it all mean?

[Cheech]

Start picking up chat lingo the more I visit the site, but keep seeing abreviations I have no idea what it means. Can someone please explain.

Here's a start,,,

LOL = Lots of Luck (or os that lots of laughs)
IMHO = In my humble opinion

Once we have a full list, it may be a good thread to then have moved to the Help section.

[cHiCo]

LOL = Laugh out Loud
BTW = By the way
ATM = At The Moment

[Cheech]

Gee, not a great start. Out of the only 2 that I thought I knew, one was wrong. That explains why sometimes it seemed odd.

[el_carpo]

Two more:

GLGF is-- good luck and good fishing.
ROTFLMAO is-- rolling on the floor laughing my ar$e off

[northsboy]

BRB= Be right back
GTG= Got to go

[bidkev]

AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AISI As I See It
AKA or a.k.a. Also Known As
AMBW All My Best Wishes
AOAS All Of A Sudden
AOB Abuse Of Bandwidth
ASAFP As Soon As "Friggin" Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATST At The Same Time
BCNU Be Seein' You
BFD Big F***ing Deal
BFN Bye For Now
BHOF Bald Headed Old Fart
BS Big Smile
BTDT Been There Done That
BTSOOM Beats The Sh** Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BWDIK But What Do I Know?
BWO Black, White or Other
C/P Cross Post
CID Consider It Done
CMF Count My Fingers
CRAFT Can't Remember a F***ing Thing
CRAP Cheap Redundant Assorted Products
CRAWS Can't Remember Anything Worth A Sh**
CSL Can't Stop Laughing
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYL See You Later
DBEYR Don't Believe Everything You Read
DGT Don't Go There
DHYB Don't Hold Your Breath
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Damn
DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A Sh**
DKDC Don't Know Don't Care
DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing
EG Evil Grin
EOM End Of Message
FE Fatal Error
FO F*** Off
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FTTB For The Time Being
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition
FUBB F***ed Up Beyond Belief
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
GAL Get A Life
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GL Good Luck
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake
GTGB Got To Go, Bye
GTGP Got To Go Pee
GTH Go To Hell
GTSY Glad To See Ya
HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HTH Hope This (or That) Helps
HUA Heads Up Ace
HUYA Head Up Your A**
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC In Character
ID10T Idiot
IDGAF I Don't Give A F***
IFU I F***ed Up
IIMAD If It Makes An(y) Difference
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IIWM If It Were Me IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
INMP It's Not My Problem
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYSS If You Say So
J/C Just Checking
J/K Just Kidding!
J/W Just Wondering
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KWIM Know What I Mean
KYPO Keep Your Pants On
LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LOL Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Luck (or Love)
LTIC Laughing 'Til I Cry
LTNS Long Time No See
LYL Love Ya Lots
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
NBD No Big Deal
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NFI No F***ing Idea
NFW No F***ing Way
NM Never Mind
NMP Not My Problem
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
OBTW Oh By The Way
OMDB Over My Dead Body
OMG Oh My Gosh
OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
OOC Out Of Character
OT Off Topic
OTOH On the Other Hand
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PLS Please
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PO Piss Off
PONA Person Of No Account
POV Point of View
RBTL Read Between The Lines
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTM Right On The Money
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
SBTA Sorry, Being Thick Again
SH Sh** Happens
SITD Still In The Dark
SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SNERT Snotty Nosed Egotistical Rotten Teenager
SO Significant Other
SOL Sh** Out of Luck
STFU Shut The F*** Up
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWDYT So What Do You Think?
TAH Take A Hike
TFN Thanks For Nothin'
THX or TX or THKS Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
VFM Value For Money
VM Voice Mail
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WAI What An Idiot
WCA Who Cares Anyway
WDYT What Do You Think?
WE Whatever
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F***
WIIFM What's In It For Me?
WOMBAT Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
WRT With Regard To
WTF What The F***
WTG Way To Go!
WTSDS Where The Sun Don't Shine
WYP What's Your Problem?
WYS Whatever You Say
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYT Whatever You Think
YAFIYGI You Asked For It You Got It
YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin'
YR Yeah Right
YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do
YYSSW Yeah Yeah Sure Sure Whatever

[cHiCo]

Kingtin, i havent heard about 90% of those.

[jeffo]

yeah im the same... got me stumped on the majority...

as long as you know BTW,LOL,BRB,LMAO and IMHO you should be pretty well right i think.

[PinHead]

I have never used any of them..think i will just create one of my own:

CHIPS - Chat Hieroglyphics Is Pathetic S***

[Cheech]

OMG!, WTG, ROTM, DYSTSOTT, BS.

THX, CWYL, EOM

[imported_admin]

PCMCIA

People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

Well not realy, It stands for
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

But the first one fitted the subject title.


Just do a search for Internet Acronyms, plenty of sites out there.

[northsboy]

DEADSET!!!!!!!!!! I read about 25 of those and just said bugger this!!! I haven't heard of alot of those!!!!! Did you make some of those up as you went or soemthing lol?? Cause you could just about make anything up for a sentence lol!!
KISS= KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!

[bidkev]

Kingtin, i havent heard about 90% of those.

Picked most of 'em up using newsgroups.

kev

[bidkev]

DEADSET!!!!!!!!!! I read about 25 of those and just said bugger this!!! I haven't heard of alot of those!!!!! Did you make some of those up as you went or soemthing lol?? Cause you could just about make anything up for a sentence lol!!
KISS= KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID!

Yeah, you're right. You can just about make 'em up yourself. The knack on newsgroups is that when someone is getting on your wick, you reply with an abbreviation that has *two* meanings......a dig and a nice one. If they figure out the dig and come at you, then you can act all innocent like and tell 'em the nice meaning of the abbreviation. Throws 'em right off their stroke :-)

kev

[northsboy]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA TOP THINKING MATE!!! Might have to go through them now!