Slightly OT: Forum Acronyms

[Puke]

in the days of the chat Boards, AFK, BBL, and BRB were about all you had to know. that and common trunkations of works such as thanx,cya or l8r.

as much as this new-age-internet jumbo offends my classical sensibilities, i must point out that as far as web-board lingo goes, you missed ROTFL and IANAL. there are probably even more. anyone here every play any of the massive multiplayer Online games, such as EQ, AC, UO, AO, etc? they have another whole language that is a cross between old MUD/MUSH lingo, BBS stuff, web board stuff, and some new stuff all their own.

I swear you could start an entire linguistics study just tracking all of this sillyness, and i bet that some university student will write their thesis on it before too long.

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