Every now & then you get them in a post,e.g lol,lmfao etc.What do they stand for?Got an idea,but trying to guess one or two of the words.
Acronyms
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Why arnt these allowed?
When communications by computers started it was costing a heck of a lot more than it does now. The way to do it would be to log on, download your messages. read and reply to them offline then log back on and post them.
For every minute (in some countries seconds) you where online it costs you money. especially during the day and mostly it wasn't a local call.
Thus the bigger the message the longer it took to download or post. So acronyms where used to shorten the message and save money. The internet also had an unwritten rule that any sig over 4 lines long would get you flamed (hate mail) and even banned from some systems... same if you posted more quoted message then you had written.. some email software would not post a message if there was more quote than response.
When SPAM startd everyone would report it to the SPAMMERS service providor to have them banned beause it was a "Theft of Service" because you where paying to recieve an advert.. Imagine the postpman charges you COD for a letter only to find its an advert. or you get an imnportant reverse charge phone call that turns out to be a man selling double glazing.... well spam on the internet was on a par..
A lot of us still through habit work as above.. I use acromyns but have tried to slow them down as most dont know what they mean anymore.. i hate spam but gave up reporting it yrs ago.. I still quote my emails correctly ..
What bugs me is the wrong use of acromyns... I mean a certain female poster would have us believe she is peeing herself laughing with every line she writes on accyweb... I hate the use of LOL and have never used it myself.. really annoys me... a smile saya it all..
For every minute (in some countries seconds) you where online it costs you money. especially during the day and mostly it wasn't a local call.
Thus the bigger the message the longer it took to download or post. So acronyms where used to shorten the message and save money. The internet also had an unwritten rule that any sig over 4 lines long would get you flamed (hate mail) and even banned from some systems... same if you posted more quoted message then you had written.. some email software would not post a message if there was more quote than response.
When SPAM startd everyone would report it to the SPAMMERS service providor to have them banned beause it was a "Theft of Service" because you where paying to recieve an advert.. Imagine the postpman charges you COD for a letter only to find its an advert. or you get an imnportant reverse charge phone call that turns out to be a man selling double glazing.... well spam on the internet was on a par..
A lot of us still through habit work as above.. I use acromyns but have tried to slow them down as most dont know what they mean anymore.. i hate spam but gave up reporting it yrs ago.. I still quote my emails correctly ..
What bugs me is the wrong use of acromyns... I mean a certain female poster would have us believe she is peeing herself laughing with every line she writes on accyweb... I hate the use of LOL and have never used it myself.. really annoys me... a smile saya it all..
I do actually 'lol' sometimes at some posts or even at some emails and in such cases I will happily say that I am lol (please note it is never 'lolling')
Are there really people who don't know the intended meaning of these commonplace acronyms?
Are there really people who don't know the intended meaning of these commonplace acronyms?
whats commonplace... there are loads of them... i converse with certain people by email who I have known on the net for years and you wouldnt be able to follow the flow there are so many different ones used... You only know a small few of them.. I was reffering to a bigger list
found this first pass at google... hundreds of em
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/
Yes Willow,thats why i started the threadWillowTheWhisp;360749 [COLOR=darkorchid said:
OK then, lets have a list and see how we get on with them. The common ones I was referring to are things like lol, imo, asap, brb, cul8r.
T? What are you laughing off there flashy?
Whats that meanlmfto
cul8r is text talk... as for common.. its relative to how long you ahve been on the internet.. as I tried to explain.. there only common because there the only ones you and accywebbers know in this community
My common list is around 20+ regularly used.. some i thought where real common but I still get asked what AFAIK and IIRC mean...and IMHO and well loads...
My common list is around 20+ regularly used.. some i thought where real common but I still get asked what AFAIK and IIRC mean...and IMHO and well loads...
SNATC.Maxwell
