ABBREVS

hey dudes real quick can we provide some real examples of overuse of internet abbrev inna early 09 hoos/roxy stylee lol <3 tbh

like provide quotations or invent u own imo either way tbrr

"to be really real"?!

- you and rox using "tbh", "iirc" and "imo" as the meaning the same thing

rev u never heard tbrr

be srs

i think we've used tbrr various times on aim

iirc abbrevs have been essential to the nu nu nu 1p3 era and its unique style of concision and lolz

rly tho

lookin for extended usess that are not about abbrevs in and of themselves, where they have some kind of context

am i making this not fun

tbh i don't understand what your last post even means. maybs it's just me tho

the motive behind gratuitous abbrev usage shifted from the commentary on internet acronyms to the commentary on the commentary on internet acronyms sometime around July 23, 2009, ii(imho)rc.

like

just tryna find examples of use of abbrevs where the whole post aint like 'tbh' and the followup is 'afaik'

a cthulhu is not a squid iirc??????

― tuppence b. bag (roxymuzak), Friday, May 1, 2009 9:44 PM (5 months ago)

close enough imo

― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Friday, May 1, 2009 9:46 PM (5 months ago)

!!! precisely ty

yvw BHakatsd. kir!

o, u

Young teen girls owned this way long ago via phone text messages. Hoos and Roxy way cooler though.

are there any further examples iyo

you jerks have basically ruined the english used in my internal monologue iirc

proposal for the board: imil == i mean it's like...i am working this into my internet conversation due to frequent use fwiw

my internal monologue is ruined too. normally i think "god...what?!" at people and now it's more like "lmbo tbh"

pretty sure the answer is SEVERAL BOTTLES OF WHISKEY itc

― h3len k. (Lamp), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 1:52 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

itc = in this case? if so, welcome to my personal abbrev lexicon, itc

do any of you guys remember the abbrev csmb (cupid saved my butt) and its racier cousin csma (cupid saved my a$$) from the old America Online game Slingo? I've been meaning for years to work those terms into my everyday speech, but to no avail.

my favoriteis "tbrr w/u"

"imo...in everyone's o"

to me this is the point where shit got real:

chelives1986 (2:20:25 AM): ^^^^^^ that DUDE imo
roxymuzak (2:20:29 AM): THAT DUDE AFAIK
chelives1986 (2:20:54 AM): just sayin that dude <6 if u will + btw
roxymuzak (2:21:25 AM): that DUDE iirc + imo, tbh
roxymuzak (2:21:33 AM): is n/l
chelives1986 (2:21:44 AM): otm
roxymuzak (2:21:46 AM): ty
chelives1986 (2:21:55 AM): np

and also that one thread where we just inexplicably say "lmp" and "nt" and seem to understand each other

^ prob my favorite exchange ever on ilx

tbtt

i saw a licence plate yesterday that said 11RIC and i thought, if that driver recalls incorrectly.

lol estela

tbuu

ttyih

i don't know what either of those mean.

I just found out what wkiw means

to be uniquely you

talk to you in hell

to be unreally unreal

oops u fail the 1p3 test leave it at front desk

to be totally truthful

to be trilly-trill

truly trill

i suppose they mean the same thing, really

to be technically tautological

iwk

srsly

lmao i started this thread to help the girl with a hw assignment about internet subcultures

cross post

http://i44.tinypic.com/2j3663k.png

awesome

i love how your handle is in itself an ABBREV

lol smh

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i love how your handle is in itself an ABBREV

― jihad mane (J0rdan S.)

truth bomb

dying over smh

sydney morning herald is the new smh

i have a strong distaste for "fuiud" cuz it just looks like "fluid"

still haven't figured that one out

fuck u if u disagree

It also looks like fluid to me and I had no idea what it meant either.

sorry, i have been using that one a lot lately

fuiud is awesome fuiud

thanking u, dyao

fuiuduta

it took me a year or two to figure out what ilx meant by smh, bcz even irl ppl stopped saying "the herald" and switched to "the smh" for the dead tree version, after the url gained ubiq 10 yrs back

(you drop the definite article to refer to the web version, as in "it's on smh" or "did you check smh?")

fuiudw/tn/lr

fuck u if u disagree with the next level, really?

tbrr is the best thing of all time

ikr

yes, i really love tbrrw/u also

tbh rev i cant even remember what i wanted the r to be in that but you got basically everything else right. fu if u disagree with that next level _____

next level realness (imo)

wonder if eps is gonna take off

Slocki's trying to make it happen and I think I'm OK with it tbh.

eps?

earth and planetary sciences

imo "abbrevvi" > "abbrev" http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?showall=true&boardid=77&threadid=77820&bookmarkedmessageid=1241134

some innovative/infuriating abbrevvis from recent history mayne posts: deriv, electch, hilars, cray

ive heard hilars and cray (usually as cray-cray) used irl

hilar/hilaire always make me froth at the mouth but hilars was new to me so i totally saw red

electch is too hard to pronounce, but i love hilaire. bc of the s1ocki.

real talk

i mean... can u imag?

― janice (surm), Thursday, July 8, 2010 9:16 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think i have a new one tttt

talk to the tang

talk to the taint

truly trailing tremulous tamarinds

i've never said nt to lmp tbf

yes, it is talk to the taint tnttt

nt

to tell the truth

http://blog.enterpriseitplanet.com/green/blog/blogpost_img/delete_key_flickr.jpg

otm iirc smdh

this thread should be called IMOdb

hahaha i ALMOST said IMOdb in my young guns title but i wasnt sure how clear it would be

tfg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, April 7, 2011 11:38 PM Bookmark

"ymmv" is my least favorite because it doesnt really make any sense the way people use it

i know its commonly accepted that "your mileage may vary" is interchangeable with "i don't like it but maybe you might" but it bugs me cause thats way different from: "depending on what kind of route you're taking and how much traffic you're sitting it, you may get more or less miles on a tank of gas with the same vehicle"

i used to wonder if it stood for 'you make me vomit' but disappointingly it didn't. i still pretend it does anyway, it livens things up.

when i was first dipping into AOL chat rooms at age 13 i thought that "lol" meant one person was calling out another person as a "Loser On-Line"

whenever someone nrotm gets told they are otm i pretend the praiser is saying 'off the meds'.

that is cute about loser online

on footy threads it means over the moon

hoos was really persistent at the start of this thread.

haha i love that insistent, enthusiastic version of hoos

like hoos 2.5

yeah but like in this case he was insistent and enthusiastic about other people looking for his own posts

his own posts where he does his own thing

i know lol

it is ludicrous - still makes me laugh

should post on "conceits"

hey guys can you post examples of where i posted pictures of myself w/ a girl on my shoulders? thanks.

am i making this not fun

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, October 13, 2009 6:50 PM (1 year ago)

Am I the only one who says "AY-fack" and "AY-fact"?

afaik I don't use queso on my non-b'fast tacos

― swag the dog (The Reverend), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 6:49 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

afauk

― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 7:07 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ukhwdi

― swag the dog (The Reverend), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 7:23 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

damn str8

― plaxico (I know, right?), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 8:09 AM Bookmark

^steady lolling at this

ilxor posters please stop using kmt its really stupid

killin my truth

i think it's only lex that uses it?

idek

^how do we feel about this

I prefer "id even k"

I am pro-idek

hat in the bucket for id even k

hat in the bucket?

sure

. . .

ellipses . . . always so scintillating.

im personal o, i prefer id even k to idek

meh, this is all normal imo. somehow Britishes people brainwash themselves every year into thinking it's gonna be sunny in August, when it blates never ever is.

― dog latin, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:31 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

into this

pvmiwhothehellisthat

― Pureed Moods (Trayce), Sunday, May 20, 2012 10:19 PM Bookmark

What the hell is or was kmt

"kissing my teeth"

"okay" apparently took too long to type, so it became "OK"

But even that was too long, so now it's just "K"

oll korrect

any new abbrevs?

Kissing my teeth?!?!?!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kissing%20teeth

very, very retarded

dpmo

vvr

tbvvr

http://i.imgur.com/4UJm3.jpg

prevalence of "wd" for "would" on ilx starting to drive me up a wall

sorry to duuaw

i feel you sd

I know, wld is way better

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okay#Boston_abbreviation_fad

The abbreviation fad began in Boston in the summer of 1838 … OFM, "our first men," and used expressions like NG, "no go," GT, "gone to Texas," and SP, "small potatoes." Many of the abbreviated expressions were exaggerated misspellings, a stock in trade of the humorists of the day. One predecessor of okay was OW, "oll wright."[19]

The general fad is speculated to have existed in spoken or informal written U.S. English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers. OK's original presentation as "all correct" was later varied with spellings such as "Oll Korrect" or even "Ole Kurreck".

imbo

^misread lmbo as this earlier today

"in my butt's opinion"

nice

http://poutperfection.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/what-does-idk-ly-ttyl-mean970.png

8 = Oral sex
9 = Parent is watching
99 = Parent no longer watching
143 = I love you
182 = I hate you
459 = I love you
831 = I love you
1174 = Nude club
420 = Marijuana
4Q = F*** You
ADR = Address
AITR = Adult in the room
ASL = Age/Sex/Location
Banana = Penis
BJ = Blow job
BOB = Battery operated boyfriend
CBF = Can’t be f***ed
CBJ = Covered blow job
CD9 or Code 9 = Parents are around
CYT = See you tomorrow
DURS = Damn you’re sexy
DUM = Do you masturbate?
DUSL = Do you scream loud?
F2F = Face to face
FAH = F**king A hot
FB = F*** buddy
FBI = Female Body Inspector
FILF = Father I’d like to F***
FMLTWIA = F*** Me Like The Whore I Am
FMUTA = F*** Me Up The A**
FO = F*** Off
FOL = Fond of leather
FWB = Friends with benefits
GAP = Got a pic?
GNOC = Get naked On cam
GYPO = Get your pants off
H4Y = Hot for you
I%I = Intercourse and inebriation
F/IB = In the front or in the back
IIT = Is it tight?
ILF/MD = I love female/male dominance
IMEZRU = I am easy, are you?
IWSN = I want sex now
ILU = I love you
IPN = I’m posting naked
ITS = Intense text sex
JAFO = Just another f***ing onlooker
J/O = Jerking off
JEOMK = Just ejaculated on my keyboard
KFY or K4Y = Kiss for you
Kitty = Vagina
KPC = Keeping parents clueless
KWSTA = Kiss with serious tongue action
LB?W/C = Like bondage? Whips or chains
LF = Let’s f***
LHOS = Let’s have online sex
LHSO = Let’s have sex online
LKITR = Little kid in the room
LMIRL = Let’s meet in real life
LY* or LU* = Anything beginning with these are forms of I love you
M4C = Meet for coffee
MorF = Male or female
MOOS = Member of the opposite sex
MOFO = Mother f***er
MOS = Mom over shoulder
MILF = Mother I’d like to f***
MIRL = Meet in real life
MOS = Mom Over Shoulder
MPFB = My personal f*** buddy
MSNUW = Miniskirt no underwear
MA = mature audience
NIFOC = Nude in front of the computer
NSFW = Not safe for work
OLL = Online love
P911 = Parent alert
PAL = Parents are listening
PAW = Parents are watching
PIR = Parent in room
PBB = Parent behind back
PLOS = Parents looking over shoulder
POM = Parent over my shoulder
POS = Parent over shoulder or piece Of sh**
PRW = Parents are watching
PRON = Porn
Q2C = Quick To cum
RU/18 = Are you over 18?
RUH = Are you horny?
RYO = Roll your own
S2R = Send to receive (photo)
SorG = Straight or gay
STM = Spank the monkey
TAW = Teachers are watching
TDTM = Talk dirty to me
TTA = Tap that ass
WYFM = Would you f*** me?
WYCM = Will you call me?
WYRN = What’s your real name?
WUF = Where you from?
XTC = Ecstasy

NIFOC IPN IWSN GYPO

XTC = Ecstasy

ICYMI = in case you missed it (gtfo)

http://i40.tinypic.com/zwbk2.jpg

OMG love that

think my neighborhood beauty parlor wanted to let people know they do ear piercing without making a big deal about it:

http://i.imgur.com/T2FiTqr.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WySAyVs.jpg

"v good"

"p good"

i p freely

NIFOC IPN IWSN GYPO

vg++

http://i.imgur.com/GAPA2eb.png

AYFKMWTS (“are you f—— kidding me with this s—?”) — 990 tweets
BFFLTDDUP (“best friends for life until death do us part) — 414 tweets
BOGSAT (“bunch of guys sitting around talking”) — 144 tweets
BTDTGTTSAWIO (“been there, done that, got the T-shirt and wore it out”) — 47 tweets
BTWITIAILWY (“by the way, I think I am in love with you”) — 535 tweets
DILLIGAD (“does it look like I give a damn?”) — 289 tweets
DITYID (“did I tell you I’m depressed?”) — 69 tweets
E2EG (“ear-to-ear grin”) — 125 tweets
GIWIST (“gee, I wish I said that”) — 56 tweets
HCDAJFU (“he could do a job for us”) — 25 tweets
IAWTCSM (“I agree with this comment so much”) — 20 tweets
IITYWIMWYBMAD (“if I tell you what it means will you buy me a drink?”) — 250 tweets
LLTA (“lots and lots of thunderous applause”) — 855 tweets
NIFOC (“naked in front of computer”) — 1,065 tweets, most of them referring to acronym guides like this one.
PMYMHMMFSWGAD (“pardon me, you must have mistaken me for someone who gives a damn”) — 128 tweets
SOMSW (“someone over my shoulder watching) — 170 tweets
WAPCE (“women are pure concentrated evil”) — 233 tweets, few relating to women
YKWRGMG (“you know what really grinds my gears?”) — 1,204 tweets

WYSIWYhttp://www.vr-rs.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/poop.gif

DILLIGAhttp://www.vr-rs.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/poop.gif

I've been on this site off and on for about a decade, and I still have no clue what wkiw means. Someone help me out.

Why keep it windy?

We kill it, wimp

We keep it wet

http://www.pixeden.com/media/k2/galleries/220/003-wood-melamine-subttle-pattern-background-pat.jpg

http://pad1.whstatic.com/images/thumb/8/8e/Kick-a-Soccer-Ball-Step-6.jpg/670px-Kick-a-Soccer-Ball-Step-6.jpg

http://impressivemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/king_it.jpg

http://www.nottinghamforest.co.uk/cms_images/withe-peter4340-295318.jpg

would kick it with....

weed?

that guy looks high.

This is why I hate internet abbreviations

What the hell is or was kmt

― the most astonishing writer on ilx (roxymuzak), Friday, 25 May 2012 04:10 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"kissing my teeth"

― Cyders from Mars (Noodle Vague),

obv the worst, anyone using it should be euthanised but painfully and slowly and mocked the whole time then woken and told it was all bantz then their throat slit. in front of their loved ones.

funeral service just row upon row of school kids lining up to fart into the wound

I'm the second most recent result for it but I'd imagine I was being ironic or w/e

clearly, darragh, you have never talked to any caribbean women.

I like kmt idk seems fit for purpose to me, if I was gonna get mad at some letters it would be far down the list of offenders

is it even possible to use these unironically in 2017

tbftttittitt

otm