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Old November 26th 04, 03:39 AM
Robert
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perhaps I am leaving myself wide open for abuse but I would sure like to know what all these abbreviations mean. I figure that OT means off topic and FS = for sale. I have been wondering about LoL, FA, WTD and others.
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Old November 26th 04, 03:56 AM
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"Robert" > wrote in message ...
perhaps I am leaving myself wide open for abuse but I would sure like to know what all these abbreviations mean. I figure that OT means off topic and FS = for sale. I have been wondering about LoL, FA, WTD and others.



Many of these abbreviations are very old, some have been made up more recently.

FA = For Auction (probably on Ebay.com)
LOL = Laughing out loud
ROFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
VW = Volkswagen <g>

You'll see others such as TTFN that date back almost 100 years. (Ta Ta For Now) It dates back to when telegraph was the best way to move a message fast. Since it is so hard to send one letter at a time, telegraphers started abbreviating things. Hows the Weather became HW WX or WX? How are you became HW R U? and so forth. When e-mail became available, some of the first ones to use it were already radio amateurs and knew the telegrapher abbreviations, as they used them, too. So they started using them online, since 300 baud isn't a very fast speed, either. And in those days, you paid for the connection by the minute. The more they could cut out of a message without loss of understanding by most of the others who read it, the better.

Charles of Kankakee


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Old November 26th 04, 08:45 AM
Tomasz Antkowiak
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Charles Fregeau wrote:
> "Robert" > wrote in message
> ...
> perhaps I am leaving myself wide open for abuse but I would sure
> like to know what all these abbreviations mean. I figure that OT
> means off topic and FS = for sale. I have been wondering about LoL,
> FA, WTD and others.
>
>
>
> Many of these abbreviations are very old, some have been made up
> more recently.
>
> FA = For Auction (probably on Ebay.com)
> LOL = Laughing out loud
> ROFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
> VW = Volkswagen <g>
>

WTD = What To Do ? )
WTF = What The F*** ? )


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Old November 26th 04, 08:44 PM
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Robert wrote:
> perhaps I am leaving myself wide open for abuse but I would sure like to know what all these abbreviations mean. I figure that OT means off topic and FS = for sale. I have been wondering about LoL, FA, WTD and others.



I gathered together the more popular Usenet Acronyms and
put them on my web site:

Speedy Jim
http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/

Learn even more by doing a GOOGLE search for: Internet + Acronym
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Old November 26th 04, 09:19 PM
tricky
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Makes me feel old

I remember when you had to learn all the abbreviations before you dipped
your toe into a newsgroup or get badly flamed flamed ! I notice people
dont <snip> like they used to either . Such a waste of bandwidth !!!

I ought to read up on AUP for news these days.

Come to think of it I havent seen FTFM here either.

Speedy Jim wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>
>> perhaps I am leaving myself wide open for abuse but I would sure like
>> to know what all these abbreviations mean. I figure that OT means off
>> topic and FS = for sale. I have been wondering about LoL, FA, WTD and
>> others.

>
>
>
> I gathered together the more popular Usenet Acronyms and
> put them on my web site:
>
> Speedy Jim
> http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/
>
> Learn even more by doing a GOOGLE search for: Internet + Acronym


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Old April 9th 05, 04:13 AM
JuneauBug
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"Charles Fregeau" > wrote in message ...

"Robert" > wrote in message ...
perhaps I am leaving myself wide open for abuse but I would sure like to know what all these abbreviations mean. I figure that OT means off topic and FS = for sale. I have been wondering about LoL, FA, WTD and others.



Many of these abbreviations are very old, some have been made up more recently.

FA = For Auction (probably on Ebay.com)
LOL = Laughing out loud
ROFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my a$$ off
VW = Volkswagen <g>

You'll see others such as TTFN that date back almost 100 years. (Ta Ta For Now) It dates back to when telegraph was the best way to move a message fast. Since it is so hard to send one letter at a time, telegraphers started abbreviating things. Hows the Weather became HW WX or WX? How are you became HW R U? and so forth. When e-mail became available, some of the first ones to use it were already radio amateurs and knew the telegrapher abbreviations, as they used them, too. So they started using them online, since 300 baud isn't a very fast speed, either. And in those days, you paid for the connection by the minute. The more they could cut out of a message without loss of understanding by most of the others who read it, the better.

Charles of Kankakee


you forgot FOAD and BOHICA!

Ken
Juneau, Ak
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Old April 9th 05, 01:20 PM
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"JuneauBug" > wrote in message ...
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> you forgot FOAD and BOHICA
>
>



..................I still like the classic simplicity and directness of AMF. And of course, there's a lot to be said for the more elaborate and even somewhat elegant ESADMF.


timmy
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Old April 9th 05, 02:43 PM
Jan Andersson
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> Tim Rogers wrote:
>
> "JuneauBug" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > you forgot FOAD and BOHICA
> >
> >

>
>
> .................I still like the classic simplicity and directness of
> AMF. And of course, there's a lot to be said for the more elaborate
> and even somewhat elegant ESADMF.
>
>
> timmy


OMG STFU alrteady, LOL <eg>


Jan
 




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