Net and Mobile Lingo all Parents should know

[Chezzie]

25 Internet Slang Terms All Parents Should Know:

Do you know what these terms mean? Your kids do!

Chances are they're using them online to talk to their friends. Some of them may shock you.

(sometimes used letters are in parentheses)

ASL(R P) Age Sex Location (Race / Picture)

BF / GF Boyfriend / Girlfriend

BRB Be Right Back

CD9 Code 9 - means parents are around

GNOC Get Naked on Cam (webcam)

GTG Got to Go

IDK I don't know

(L)MIRL (Lets) meet in real life

LOL Laugh Out Loud

MorF Male or Female

MOS Mom Over Shoulder

NIFOC Naked in Front of Computer

Noob Newbie - often an insult to somebody who doesn't know much about something.

NMU Not much, you?

P911 Parent Emergency

PAW Parents are Watching

PIR Parent In Room

POS Parent Over Shoulder

PRON Porn

PRW Parents Are Watching

S2R Send To Recieve (pictures)

TDTM Talk Dirty To Me

Warez Pirated Software

W/E Whatever

WTF What the **ck?

[qsducks]

I knew some of them chez but not the ones about the webcam which we don't own thank gawd. Daughter has a friend who used her real name on some website and an older man called her. Talk about dumb. I had to step in and call the mom. She was stunned.

[Carolly]

Very handy mate..fanks:D;)

[Chezzie]

AAK Alive And Kicking

AAR At Any Rate

AAS Alive And Smiling

ADN Any Day Now

AFAIK As Far As I Know

AFK Away From the Keyboard

AFN that's All For Now

AOTA All Of The Above

a/s/l or asl Age/Sex/Location - (used to ask a chatter their personal information)

AV Avatar - Graphical representation (a picture) often used in chat rooms to depict a person that is in the room and chatting.

b4 Before

BAK Back At Keyboard (I'm back)

BBL Be Back Later

BBS Be Back Soon

BCNU I'll Be Seeing You.

b/f Boyfriend (also shown as bf, B/F, or BF)

BEG Big Evil Grin

BFN Bye For Now

BMA Bite My A** (became popular with the Simpson's cartoon show)

boot To get kicked out of a chat room, or have to restart the computer because you couldn't talk in the chat room anymore.

BR Best Regards

BRB Be Right Back

BRH Be Right Here

BSEG Big S**t Eatin Grin

BTA But Then Again....

BTW By The Way

btw BeTWeen you and me ...

chat room A web page where people gather using software that allows them to talk to one another in real time.

CRS Can't Remember S**t

CU See You - also posted as cya

CUS Can't Understand S**t (stuff)

CNP Continued in Next Post (seen more on message boards than chat)

CP Chat Post

CUL8R See You Later

CUOL See You On Line

CYA See Ya

dd, ds, dh Darling or Dear: Dear Son, Dear Daughter, or Dear Husband. Usually exchanged in family chats.

DDSOS Different Day, Same Old S**t

DEGT Don't Even Go There (I don't want to talk about it)

DIKU Do I Know You?

DIS Did I Say

D/L, DL, d/l, dl Downloading, or Download it.

EG Evil Grin

EM E-Mail

EMA E-mail Address (example: ?ema or ema? = what is your email address)

EOT End Of Thread (meaning end of discussion)

ez or EZ easy (one of the really old ones)

F2F Face To Face

FAQ Frequently Asked Question

FISH First In Still Here (someone who is on line TOO much)

FITB Fill In The Blanks

flame to insult someone. Used when a person asks a stupid question, or says something rude to irritate the users of a chat room or message board.

FOCL Falling Off Chair - Laughing

fu ******* you (If you can't figure this one out, you shouldn't be on line)

FUBAR "Fouled" Up Beyond All Repair / Recognition

FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

FWIW For What It's Worth

FYI For Your Information

GA Go Ahead

GAL Get A Life

gest Gesture ... a small multimedia file played over the internet, usually expressing an emotion or comment.

g/f Girlfriend (also shown as gf, G/F, or GF)

GFN Gone For Now

GGOH Gotta Get Outta Here

GMTA Great Minds Think Alike

GR Gotta Run

GR&D Grinning, Running, and Ducking.

GTR Got To Run

GTRM Going To Read Mail (leaving chat room to check email)

H&K Hugs and Kisses

hack person who breaks into software, or disrupts a chat room.

HAGD Have A Good Day

HAGO Have A Good One

Halsoft Name of a company that purchased the brand of Chat that Excite offered, now a pay as you go service.

HB Hurry Back

Hosts Refers to the people that are running the chat room, they usually have the ability to kick a person off due to rude behavior.

HTH Hope That Helps

huggles Hugs

IAC In Any Case

IB I'm Back

IC I See

IDN I Don't kNow

IDK I Don't Know

IDTS I Don't Think So

IANAL I'm Am Not A Lawyer (expect an uninformed opinion)

IC I See

ICQ I Seek You. A computer program used to communicate instantly over the Internet.

ILU or ILY I Love You

IM Instant Message

IMHO In My Humble Opinion (or In My Honest Opinion)

IMO In My Opinion

IOH I'm Out of Here

IOW In Other Words

IRL In Real Life

IYO In Your Opinion

JAS Just A Second

JIC Just In Case

JK Just Kidding

JMO Just My Opinion

JW Just Wondering

k, K, or kk O. K.

KIT Keep In Touch

L8R Later (an early one, kind of outdated with current 'young geeks')

LMAO Laughing My Ass Off

LFFAO Laughing My *******(freaking) Ass Off

LOL Laughing Out Loud

LTNS Long Time No See

LTS Laughing To ones Self

LY I Love Ya.

LYL Love You Lots

Message Board. A web page where people write comments, and those comments are than added to that web-page for others to view. Used to carry on conversation, request information, and relay messages.

MUG Refers to a new user of that chat program, goes back to Excite VP days when the AV (or icon) that represented someone new was a picture of a coffee mug.

NE1 Anyone

newbie refers to a person who is new to an area or technology. Also seen as nube, nooby, nubie, nb, etc.

NFW No Feasible (or **********) Way

NIMBY Not In My Back Yard

nm, or NM Never Mind

NP, np No Problem

NRN 1. No Response Necessary

2. Not Right Now

NT No Thanks

OBTW Oh, By The Way.

OIC Oh, I See

OF Old Fart, someone who has been around for a while.

OJ or OK Only Joking or Only Kidding

OL the Old Lady

OM the Old Man

OMG Oh My Gosh (although it's usually used with the Lords name in place of "gosh")

OT Off Topic

oth or OTH Off The Hook: Something is really popular, or hot. Very exciting.

otr or OTR Off The Rack: Saying that something is outside the ordinary.

OTE Over The Edge (beyond common sense or beyond good taste)

OTOH On The Other Hand ...

OTOMH Off the Top of My Head ...

OTW On The Way ... I've sent a file to you, it's "On the way"

P911 My parents are in the room. P=Parents, and 911=emergency, in other words either drop the subject, or watch the language.

PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff (often referring to computer technology)

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Cards International Association

PCMCIA People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms (slang)

PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

peeps People. example: "There sure are a lot of peeps in this room" - meaning a lot of people are in the chat room.

peep this Hey, listen to this, I've got some interesting news.

PITA Pain In The Ass

PLZ Please

PMJI Pardon Me for Jumping In (when you enter into a new conversation)

poof when someone leaves a chat room, often seen as *poof* as in boy he *poofed* in a hurry.

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

POS Parents are looking Over my Shoulder.

POTS Parents Over The Shoulder - (My parents are watching, I can't really talk)

PPL People

QT Cutie

RFC Request For Comments (used more in newsgroups, a page or pages that supply technical information)

rl or RL Real Life (as opposed to being online)

r m or RM Ready Made: pre-existing

ROFL Rolling On Floor, Laughing

ROTF Rolling On The Floor (laughing is implied)

ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off

ROTFLMFAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing F(***ing) My Ass Off

RSN Real Soon Now

r/t Real Time (also: RT, or rt)

RTFM Read The "Flippin" Manual (response to beginner question on net, chat, newsgroups, etc.)

RU aRe yoU?

SEG **** Eating Grin

SH Same Here

SMS Short Message Service (more cell phones and pagers than chat rooms and the Internet)

SN Screen Name. The name or moniker selected by person in an IM or chat program. ex: My "SN" in vp was "-lone.wolf"

SNAFU Situation Normal, All "Fouled" Up

SO Significant Other

SOL **** Out Of Luck

SOS Same Old S**t (stuff)

SOTA State Of The Art (latest technology)

SPST Same Place, Same Time

SSDD Same S**t, Different Day

STR8 Straight (can refer to sex, or DSTR8 as in Damn Straight)

STW Search The Web

SY Sincerely Yours

SYL See You Later

TAFN That's All For Now

TC Take Care

TFH Thread From Hell (a topic or discussion that won't stop - esp. newsgroups)

TGIF Thank Goodness It's Friday

THX Thanks!

TIA Thanks In Advance

TM Text Message (often refers to communications with text over cell phones)

TMI Too Much Info. (information)

TNT 'Til Next Time

TPS That's Pretty Stupid

TPTB The Powers That Be (can sometimes refer to the people that are running the chat room or server)

TRDMF Tears Running Down My Face: Can be with either laughter, or due to saddness.

TS Tough S**t

TSFY Tough S**t For You

TTFN Ta-Ta For Now

TTTT These Things Take Time

TTYL Talk To You Later

TY Thank You

TYT Take Your Time

TYVM Thank You Very Much

VPPH Virtual Places Page Host

US You Suck

usa or USA Until Sides Ache: Usually used with one of the laughter acronyms such as "lolusa" Laughing Out Loud Until my Sides Ache. I've also heard that some folks substitute ush for "Until Sides Hurt". rotflolush = rolling on the floor, laughing out loud, until my sides hurt.

UV Unpleasant Visual

UW yoU're Welcome

UY Up Yours

vp or VP Virtual Places: A brand of chat offered by Excite in the late 90s and early 2000.

WB Welcome Back (you say this when someone returns to a chat room)

WC WelCome

WEG Wicked Evil Grin

WEU What's Eating You?

WFM Works For Me

WIIFM What's In It For Me?

WTG Way To Go

WTF What The F**K

WT? What The ...? or Who the ...?

WTGP? Want To Go Private? (move to a private chat room)

WWJD What Would Jesus Do?

YAA Yet Another Acronym

YBS You'll Be Sorry

YL Young Lady

YM Young Man

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

YR Yea, Right. (sarcastic)

*ys* You Stinker

YVW You're Very Welcome

YW You're Welcome

[Chezzie]

Ian;993042 wrote: Oh that's what it means :-2


Ian?? You said you knew what I meant:sneaky::D

[qsducks]

Chezzie;993054 wrote: AAK Alive And Kicking

AAR At Any Rate

AAS Alive And Smiling

ADN Any Day Now

AFAIK As Far As I Know

AFK Away From the Keyboard

AFN that's All For Now

AOTA All Of The Above

a/s/l or asl Age/Sex/Location - (used to ask a chatter their personal information)

AV Avatar - Graphical representation (a picture) often used in chat rooms to depict a person that is in the room and chatting.

b4 Before

BAK Back At Keyboard (I'm back)

BBL Be Back Later

BBS Be Back Soon

BCNU I'll Be Seeing You.

b/f Boyfriend (also shown as bf, B/F, or BF)

BEG Big Evil Grin

BFN Bye For Now

BMA Bite My A** (became popular with the Simpson's cartoon show)

boot To get kicked out of a chat room, or have to restart the computer because you couldn't talk in the chat room anymore.

BR Best Regards

BRB Be Right Back

BRH Be Right Here

BSEG Big S**t Eatin Grin

BTA But Then Again....

BTW By The Way

btw BeTWeen you and me ...

chat room A web page where people gather using software that allows them to talk to one another in real time.

CRS Can't Remember S**t

CU See You - also posted as cya

CUS Can't Understand S**t (stuff)

CNP Continued in Next Post (seen more on message boards than chat)

CP Chat Post

CUL8R See You Later

CUOL See You On Line

CYA See Ya

dd, ds, dh Darling or Dear: Dear Son, Dear Daughter, or Dear Husband. Usually exchanged in family chats.

DDSOS Different Day, Same Old S**t

DEGT Don't Even Go There (I don't want to talk about it)

DIKU Do I Know You?

DIS Did I Say

D/L, DL, d/l, dl Downloading, or Download it.

EG Evil Grin

EM E-Mail

EMA E-mail Address (example: ?ema or ema? = what is your email address)

EOT End Of Thread (meaning end of discussion)

ez or EZ easy (one of the really old ones)

F2F Face To Face

FAQ Frequently Asked Question

FISH First In Still Here (someone who is on line TOO much)

FITB Fill In The Blanks

flame to insult someone. Used when a person asks a stupid question, or says something rude to irritate the users of a chat room or message board.

FOCL Falling Off Chair - Laughing

fu ******* you (If you can't figure this one out, you shouldn't be on line)

FUBAR "Fouled" Up Beyond All Repair / Recognition

FUD Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

FWIW For What It's Worth

FYI For Your Information

GA Go Ahead

GAL Get A Life

gest Gesture ... a small multimedia file played over the internet, usually expressing an emotion or comment.

g/f Girlfriend (also shown as gf, G/F, or GF)

GFN Gone For Now

GGOH Gotta Get Outta Here

GMTA Great Minds Think Alike

GR Gotta Run

GR&D Grinning, Running, and Ducking.

GTR Got To Run

GTRM Going To Read Mail (leaving chat room to check email)

H&K Hugs and Kisses

hack person who breaks into software, or disrupts a chat room.

HAGD Have A Good Day

HAGO Have A Good One

Halsoft Name of a company that purchased the brand of Chat that Excite offered, now a pay as you go service.

HB Hurry Back

Hosts Refers to the people that are running the chat room, they usually have the ability to kick a person off due to rude behavior.

HTH Hope That Helps

huggles Hugs

IAC In Any Case

IB I'm Back

IC I See

IDN I Don't kNow

IDK I Don't Know

IDTS I Don't Think So

IANAL I'm Am Not A Lawyer (expect an uninformed opinion)

IC I See

ICQ I Seek You. A computer program used to communicate instantly over the Internet.

ILU or ILY I Love You

IM Instant Message

IMHO In My Humble Opinion (or In My Honest Opinion)

IMO In My Opinion

IOH I'm Out of Here

IOW In Other Words

IRL In Real Life

IYO In Your Opinion

JAS Just A Second

JIC Just In Case

JK Just Kidding

JMO Just My Opinion

JW Just Wondering

k, K, or kk O. K.

KIT Keep In Touch

L8R Later (an early one, kind of outdated with current 'young geeks')

LMAO Laughing My Ass Off

LFFAO Laughing My *******(freaking) Ass Off

LOL Laughing Out Loud

LTNS Long Time No See

LTS Laughing To ones Self

LY I Love Ya.

LYL Love You Lots

Message Board. A web page where people write comments, and those comments are than added to that web-page for others to view. Used to carry on conversation, request information, and relay messages.

MUG Refers to a new user of that chat program, goes back to Excite VP days when the AV (or icon) that represented someone new was a picture of a coffee mug.

NE1 Anyone

newbie refers to a person who is new to an area or technology. Also seen as nube, nooby, nubie, nb, etc.

NFW No Feasible (or **********) Way

NIMBY Not In My Back Yard

nm, or NM Never Mind

NP, np No Problem

NRN 1. No Response Necessary

2. Not Right Now

NT No Thanks

OBTW Oh, By The Way.

OIC Oh, I See

OF Old Fart, someone who has been around for a while.

OJ or OK Only Joking or Only Kidding

OL the Old Lady

OM the Old Man

OMG Oh My Gosh (although it's usually used with the Lords name in place of "gosh")

OT Off Topic

oth or OTH Off The Hook: Something is really popular, or hot. Very exciting.

otr or OTR Off The Rack: Saying that something is outside the ordinary.

OTE Over The Edge (beyond common sense or beyond good taste)

OTOH On The Other Hand ...

OTOMH Off the Top of My Head ...

OTW On The Way ... I've sent a file to you, it's "On the way"

P911 My parents are in the room. P=Parents, and 911=emergency, in other words either drop the subject, or watch the language.

PANS Pretty Awesome New Stuff (often referring to computer technology)

PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Cards International Association

PCMCIA People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms (slang)

PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

peeps People. example: "There sure are a lot of peeps in this room" - meaning a lot of people are in the chat room.

peep this Hey, listen to this, I've got some interesting news.

PITA Pain In The Ass

PLZ Please

PMJI Pardon Me for Jumping In (when you enter into a new conversation)

poof when someone leaves a chat room, often seen as *poof* as in boy he *poofed* in a hurry.

POTS Plain Old Telephone Service

POS Parents are looking Over my Shoulder.

POTS Parents Over The Shoulder - (My parents are watching, I can't really talk)

PPL People

QT Cutie

RFC Request For Comments (used more in newsgroups, a page or pages that supply technical information)

rl or RL Real Life (as opposed to being online)

r m or RM Ready Made: pre-existing

ROFL Rolling On Floor, Laughing

ROTF Rolling On The Floor (laughing is implied)

ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off

ROTFLMFAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing F(***ing) My Ass Off

RSN Real Soon Now

r/t Real Time (also: RT, or rt)

RTFM Read The "Flippin" Manual (response to beginner question on net, chat, newsgroups, etc.)

RU aRe yoU?

SEG **** Eating Grin

SH Same Here

SMS Short Message Service (more cell phones and pagers than chat rooms and the Internet)

SN Screen Name. The name or moniker selected by person in an IM or chat program. ex: My "SN" in vp was "-lone.wolf"

SNAFU Situation Normal, All "Fouled" Up

SO Significant Other

SOL **** Out Of Luck

SOS Same Old S**t (stuff)

SOTA State Of The Art (latest technology)

SPST Same Place, Same Time

SSDD Same S**t, Different Day

STR8 Straight (can refer to sex, or DSTR8 as in Damn Straight)

STW Search The Web

SY Sincerely Yours

SYL See You Later

TAFN That's All For Now

TC Take Care

TFH Thread From Hell (a topic or discussion that won't stop - esp. newsgroups)

TGIF Thank Goodness It's Friday

THX Thanks!

TIA Thanks In Advance

TM Text Message (often refers to communications with text over cell phones)

TMI Too Much Info. (information)

TNT 'Til Next Time

TPS That's Pretty Stupid

TPTB The Powers That Be (can sometimes refer to the people that are running the chat room or server)

TRDMF Tears Running Down My Face: Can be with either laughter, or due to saddness.

TS Tough S**t

TSFY Tough S**t For You

TTFN Ta-Ta For Now

TTTT These Things Take Time

TTYL Talk To You Later

TY Thank You

TYT Take Your Time

TYVM Thank You Very Much

VPPH Virtual Places Page Host

US You Suck

usa or USA Until Sides Ache: Usually used with one of the laughter acronyms such as "lolusa" Laughing Out Loud Until my Sides Ache. I've also heard that some folks substitute ush for "Until Sides Hurt". rotflolush = rolling on the floor, laughing out loud, until my sides hurt.

UV Unpleasant Visual

UW yoU're Welcome

UY Up Yours

vp or VP Virtual Places: A brand of chat offered by Excite in the late 90s and early 2000.

WB Welcome Back (you say this when someone returns to a chat room)

WC WelCome

WEG Wicked Evil Grin

WEU What's Eating You?

WFM Works For Me

WIIFM What's In It For Me?

WTG Way To Go

WTF What The F**K

WT? What The ...? or Who the ...?

WTGP? Want To Go Private? (move to a private chat room)

WWJD What Would Jesus Do?

YAA Yet Another Acronym

YBS You'll Be Sorry

YL Young Lady

YM Young Man

YMMV Your Mileage May Vary

YR Yea, Right. (sarcastic)

*ys* You Stinker

YVW You're Very Welcome

YW You're Welcome


Gawd Chez, how long did that take to type in?:wah:

[Chezzie]

Emoticons: (symbols used to display feeling)



:-) .. smile

... wink

... angry

0:-) ... angel

... bored or no opinion

:-> ... grin/mischievous

| -) ... dreaming

:-O ... shouting

... talking

>:-|| ... mad / angry

... big grin or laugh

=:-O ... scared

... keeping mouth shut

) ... smiles (w/nose)

)))))) ... lots of smiles

;-P ... sticking tongue out

~ ... sexy tongue - or drunk

c["] ... coffee mug

[_]> ... another cup

Attached files

[qsducks]

I would have had carpal tunnel syndrome after typing that list in:wah:

[Chezzie]

qsducks;993062 wrote: I would have had carpal tunnel syndrome after typing that list in:wah:


Lightweight:D

[qsducks]

Chezzie;993071 wrote: Lightweight:D


I've had it twice with two pregnancies. The last one was with Quin and I had it in both wrists. Had to wear these goofy looking casts on both wrists. Hey, but I did have it made at the grocery store:wah: bagging wise.

[Chezzie]

qsducks;993073 wrote: I've had it twice with two pregnancies. The last one was with Quin and I had it in both wrists. Had to wear these goofy looking casts on both wrists. Hey, but I did have it made at the grocery store:wah: bagging wise.


heh heh, I just make sure I get a male cashier and flash me wares:sneaky::sneaky:

[qsducks]

Chezzie;993074 wrote: heh heh, I just make sure I get a male cashier and flash me wares:sneaky::sneaky:


Your overextended boobs when you were preggers?:wah:

[Chezzie]

qsducks;993078 wrote: Your overextended boobs when you were preggers?:wah:


lol





Heres a link to more net lingo

http://www.missingkids.com/adcouncil/pd ... elingo.pdf

[Chezzie]

Ian;993244 wrote: GNOC :-4

I'm just shy in any case I thought you would ROFL :-2


AAMOF AISI DBEYR DYFM:p:p

[Chezzie]

Ian;993260 wrote: I love it when you speak Welsh to me :-4


hah hah you so funny:-4