Posting abbreviations
I am posting this as kitchen talk because I have no idea how to fit it into a category. Yesterday I was asking some younger people to explain some of the abbreviations I have tried to decipher on this site. YMMV for example. I do not text on my phone so I remain in a state of confusion here. Could someone give me a basic list of what means what? I do know BTW. I thought LOL meant "lots of laughs". My husband just laughed at me. Please help me. I feel like the mayor of the village of idiots!
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15 Comments:
YMMV means "your mileage may vary" and applies in situations when there may be a different outcome, i.e., this recipe didn't work well for me, but YMMV.
LOL is "laughing out loud". What else would you like to know?
lemons at 11:50AM on 04/13/08
Thanks lemons. I thought it meant young men may vomit. I'm with you iz........some are tough to decipher.
I don't text either. All those that end in IL (MIL, FIL, SIL, BIL) are in-laws. DH is darling husband. IMHO - in my humble opinion. SO significant other. FP is food processor (I thought it meant fireplace). Those are a few that stumped me.
PerkyMac at 12:01PM on 04/13/08
One that threw me at first was ISO, especially as the first word in a posting header.
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LoCo at 12:08PM on 04/13/08
I can't think of all the ones I have seen. IRL is one and why do you put @ in front of poster's names? I will post them here as I come across them. IMHO was one, but you answered that.
izatryt at 12:09PM on 04/13/08
@izatryt - IRL = in real life
@before a name - calls attention to a name when a person is being addressed, or so that it makes it easy for them to see when they're being referenced.
The one that drove me crazy for a while was IIRC, If I recall correctly.
chisai at 12:17PM on 04/13/08
IRL - I guessed it meant "in real life", as opposed to cyberlife.
Here is a google list of websites to help. I prefer to stay in the dark and guess, so I can't recommend just one. ;)
PerkyMac at 12:17PM on 04/13/08
@PerkyMac - I just checked out your link. Wow! I had no idea there were so many. I would have never guessed IIRC.
Since I am my own "Kitchen Nightmare", the least I can do is get the posting lingo right.
izatryt at 12:27PM on 04/13/08
Try this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/
1stmakearoux at 12:30PM on 04/13/08
@1st (you have a very long name!) - That site is wild! One could get quite an education there.
izatryt at 12:37PM on 04/13/08
being a teenage girl, i feel obligated to reply to this
most common ones (to me) are:
LMAO= laughing my ass off
ROFL= rolling on the floor laughing
@= at, or used when talking directly to certain someone
BRB=be right back
TTYL=talk to you later
J/K or JK= just kidding
WTF= what the f***
WTH=what the heck/hell
THX= thanks
that's all i can think of right now
hope it helps
mochateri at 4:00PM on 04/13/08
oh and:
OMG= oh my god
NVM= never mind
mochateri at 4:04PM on 04/13/08
My favorite to use on cooking sites is: DBMNMR.
Don't blame me, not my recipe.
It's used after someone googles a recipe at another poster's request to let the requestor know that although the poster has posted the recipe, the poster did not originate the recipe and may not have prepared it.
Here are a few more that seem to work their way into my texting...
GM! = Good morning!
Y/W = You're welcome.
gr8 = Great
l8r= Later
chiff0nade at 8:55PM on 04/13/08
SLOP= Sandra Lee
Retchal=Rachel Ray
BMW=Bite my wasabi
ONNA=oh no not again
KTC=Kiss the cook
JEI=just eat it
JTM=just trust me
OP=original poster
CL=canned laughter
HCY=how could you
HCI=how can I
TTB=take that back
TYVM= thank you very much
then the usuals AKA, FYI, IMHO,
JerzeeTomato at 11:51PM on 04/13/08
Thanks everyone! I think I can have some fun with these.
izatryt at 7:59AM on 04/14/08
@Jerzee.........bite my wasabi????? ;-D
PerkyMac at 3:31PM on 04/14/08