Understanding Common Abbreviations in Internet Communications

Remember the article in this blog “The Power of Three Screens: Turning the World into the Unlimited Screen of Opportunities” that already posted a couple month ago? It’s really true that our lives are deeply connected to those 3-miracle screens. Even if you can skip one of those (e.g.TV) you still heavily faced the two of them (your cell phone and lovely laptop!). In wider perspective this milestone of technology has dramatically changed our world into the borderless territory. This phenomenon boost our communications between relatives, community members, friends, colleagues, and business partners become very smooth, swift, real time, concise, and fast!

In more practical and daily use, the above phenomenon also affected in the way of internet languages. This simple article will show us that to some extent everything in internet communication especially in chats or short messages through cell phones, PDA phone, smartphone, or even computer laptop or desktop has found the new way expressed that terminology of fast! Everything should be fast, but still understandable!

In simple chart, thread, SMS, or BBM (for those who use Blackberry device), people that already have an advanced skill or still newbie as well in internet has developed a common acronyms and abbreviations in their communications. Far from the basic function as a prefix conversation, abbreviations in internet chat also intended to make smooth, friendly, honest, punctuation, and emphasizing, same as what we do in real - non virtual verbal communications. Just for the quick reminder, according to Paul Gil, About.com, here are some examples of simple internet abbreviations:

JK Just Kidding
? I have a question
! I have a comment
A-OLs Administrators On-Line
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From the Keyboard
AISI As I See It
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ASL Age, sex, location
ATSL Along The Same Line
AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet?
AYOR At Your Own Risk
B4N Bye For Now
BAK Back At Keyboard
BBFN Bye Bye For Now
BBL Be Back Later
BF Boy Friend
BFN Bye For Now
BIF Before I Forget
BION Believe it or not
BOT Back On Topic
BRB Be Right Back
BTAIM Be That As It May
BTHOM Beats The Hell Outta Me
BTOBD Be There Or Be Dead
BTW By The Way
BWL Bursting With Laughter
BYKT But You Knew That
BYOB Bring Your Own Bottle
CMIIW Correct Me If I’m Wrong
CU See You
CU2 See You, Too
CUL See you later
CUL8R See You Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
DIIK Damned If I Know.
DIKU? Do I Know You?
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Darnn?.
DIY Do It Yourself
DK Don’t Know
F2F Face To Face
FCFS First Come, First Served
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank
FOAD F*** off and die
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FS For Sale
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
F2F Face to Face
FTF Face To Face
FTL Faster Than Light
FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
FUBB Fouled Up Beyond Belief.
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FURTB Full Up Ready To Burst
FWIW For What It’s Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
G Grin, or Giggle
G2G Got to Go
GA Go Ahead
GAL Get A Life
GD&R Grinning, Ducking and Running
GF Girl Friend.
GFN Gone For Now.
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I’d Said That
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GOWI Get On With It
GTG Got To Go
GTSY Great To See You
H&K Hugs and Kisses
HAK Hugs And Kisses
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer (but) A disclaimer which is usually followed by a legal opinion
IAW In Accordance With
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC I See
IDK I Don't Know
IIWM If It Were Me
IJWTK I Just Want To Know
IJWTS I Just Want To Say
IKWUM I Know What You Mean
IMA I Might Add
IME In My Experience
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMPOV In My Point Of View
INPO In No Particular Order
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISS I’m So Sure
ISSYGTI I’m So Sure You Get The Idea!
ISWYM I See What You Mean
ITFA In The Final Analysis
ITSFWI If The Shoe Fits Wear It.
IYSWIM If You See What I Mean
JAM Just A Minute
JAS Just A Second
JFI Just For Information
JIC Just In Case
JMO Just My Opinion
JTLYK Just To Let You Know
k Okay
KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My A**
KWIM Know What I Mean?
KYFC Keep Your Fingers Crossed

L Laugh
L8R Later
LABATYD or LAB&TYD Life's A B**ch And Then You Die
LJBF Let’s Just Be Friends
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My A** Off
LMHO Laughing My Head Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
LSHMBH Laughing So Hard My Belly Hurts.
LTHTT Laughing Too Hard To Type
LTNS Long Time No See
LTNT Long Time, No Type
LTS Laughing to Self
LY Love You
MEGO My Eyes Glaze Over
MLA Multiple Letter Acronym
MOF Matter Of Fact
MOSS Member Of Same Sex
MOTAS Member Of The Appropriate Sex
MOTD Message of the day
MOTOS Member Of The Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member Of The Same Sex
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
NAVY Never Again Voluneer Yourself.
NBD No Big Deal
NFW No Friggin' Way!
NHOH Never Heard Of Him/Her
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
NQA No Questions Asked
NTIM Not That It Matters
NTW Not To Worry
NTYMI Now That You Mention It
NWT New With Tags (for selling items online)
NWOT New Without Tags (for selling items online)
OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OB Obligatory
OBO Or Best Offer
OBTW Oh, By The Way
OIC Oh, I See
OMG Oh My God
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OO Over and Out (end of communication)
OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment
OTF On the Floor (laughing)
OTFL On the Floor Laughing
OTL Out To Lunch
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTOOH On The Other Other Hand
OTT Over The Top
OTTH On The Third Hand
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
PABG Packing a Big Gun
PCMCIA People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
PD Public Domain
PDS Please Don't Shout.
PITA Pain In The A**
PMBI Pardon My Butting In
PMF Pardon My French or Pure Freaking Magic.
PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear, Before Opening Mouth
PMJI Pardon My Jumping In
PMSL P*ssing Myself Laughing (a common UK expression)
PNCAH Please, No Cursing Allowed Here
POSSLQ Person Of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
PPL People
PTMM Please Tell Me More
R U THERE? Are you there?
RAEBNC Read And Enjoyed, But No Comment
re Hello again or In Regard To
RHIP Rank Has Its Privileges
RL Real Life
RLCO Real Life Conference
ROFL Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLAS Rolling On Floor Laughing And Screaming
ROFLMAO Roll On Floor Laughing My A** Off
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAOTID Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off Till I Die
ROTFLOL Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud
ROTFLOLAPMP Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud And Peeing My Pants
ROTFLTIC Rolling On The Floor Laughing Till I Cry
RRQ Return Receipt Request
RSN Real Soon Now
RSVP Respondez S'il Vous Plait - please reply
RTBM Read The Bloody Manual
RTFAQ Read The Frequently Asked Questions
RTFF Read The Freaking FAQ
RTFM Read The F------ Manual
RTM Read The Manual
RTWFQ Read The Whole Friggin' Question
RYFM Read Your Friendly Manual
RYS Read Your Screen
S Smile
SAPFU Surpassing All Previous Foul Ups
SCNR Sorry, Could Not Resist
SEC Wait a second
SFLA Stupid Four Letter Acronym
SICS Sitting In Chair Snickering
SLM See Last Mail
SMOP Small Matter of Programming
SNAFU Situation Normal: All Fouled Up
SO Significant Other
SOL SH** Out Of Luck
SOS Same Old Stuff or Help!
SOW Speaking Of Which
SWIM See What I Mean?
TAFN That’s All For Now
TANJ There Ain’t No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really Fouled Up
TBYB Try Before You Buy
TDM Too Darn Many
TFS Three Finger Salute (Ctl-Alt-Del).
TFTHAOT Thanks For The Help Ahead Of Time
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TINWIS That Is Not What I Said
TNSTAAFL There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TNTL Trying Not To Laugh
TNX Thanks
TNXE6 Thanks A Million
TOBAL There Oughta Be A Law.
TOBG This Oughta Be Good.
TOY Thinking Of You.
TPTB The Powers That Be
TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks.
TSR Totally Stupid Rules.
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge

TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTYL Talk To You Later
TTYT Talk To You Tomorrow.
TYCLO Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off
TYVM Thank You Very Much
UOK Are You OK?
WAEF When All Else Fails
WB Welcome Back
WDYMBT What Do You Mean By That?.
WDYT What Do You Think?
WE Whatever
WIBAMU Well, I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle
WIBNI Wouldn’t It Be Nice If
WMMOWS Wash My Mouth Out With Soap
WNOHGB Where No One Has Gone Before
WOA Work Of Art
WOTAM Waste Of Time And Money
WRT With Regard To, or With Respect To
WT Without Thinking
WTB Want To Buy
WTF What The F***?
WTG Way To Go!
WTGP Want To Go Private?
WTH What the hell?
WTTM Without Thinking Too Much.
WYGISWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
XOXOXO Kisses and hugs
YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym
YAOTM Yet Another Off-Topic Message
YAUN Yet Another Unix Nerd
YGLT You're Gonna Love This
YGTI You Get The Idea?
YGWYPF You Get What You Pay For
YIU Yes, I Understand
YIWGP Yes, I Will Go Private
YKYARW You Know You're A Redneck When
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary (or your experience could be different)

How to Choose the Right Baby Monitor for Parents and their Babies.

Being a mom particularly the first mom would be one of the greatest challenge in this life. Rolled over from a 9-month pregnancy periode until the birth date, this period is full of surprises and impressionable moments. And yet these moments will exactly continue to the next coming months until the preschool years. One of the challenging moment during early years is getting your baby to sleep. But don’t be cheered up first, getting the baby to sleep is only half the battle! Once they’re asleep most parents still have concerns that can keep them up at night.

Most of these concerns however, can be solved simply by investing in the right monitor for your family. In fact a third of parents see having a monitor they trust as ‘absolutely critical’ to getting a good night’s sleep. Today, every baby monitor has been intensively researched and tested to provide the very highest standards of safety and a host of innovative features from guaranteed privacy. In more advance product it equiped with two-way talk back to remotely controlled night lights, vibration alert and last feed timer, that really do make parenting easier. When it come in choosing your baby monitor ask yourself a few questions first about your priorities, where you live and your lifestyle and this, should help you find your ideal monitor and at the same time getting the most out of it:

1. Do you need to make sure that no-one else can over-ride in to your monitor? Choose the monitor that offer a unigue privacy. Certain monitor has a privacy that is guaranteed by srambling device with thousands unique combinations and an auto channel hopping selection function and digital audio. Guaranteed privacy means that the sounds your baby makes cannot be picked up by any other monitor in the adjacent area.

2. Will you be spending sometime out of the house in the garden or working outside the home? If so please consider a portable monitor with a longer range for flexible (such as 300 meter in range) that enable a portable monitoring. Also consider having a monitor with a vibration alert for which is great for noisy environments such as when mowing the lawn or when tuning the car’s engine.

3. Will your little one be sleeping in his/her own nursery room? If so you might need to have a monitor with a two-way talk back communication facility which is handy for when your baby only needs a word of reassurance from afar. Also consider a monitor with a night light on the baby unit to give a comforting glow in the dark to reassure your baby.

4. Do you probably disturb your baby when entering the nursery room? If so you might need to consider a monitor with a night light on the baby unit so there is no need to disturb your baby using the main light in the nursery room.

5. Are you concerned that you might unaware or forget when the next feed is due during the night? In order to reduce uncertainty about when the next feed is due, the innovative last feed timer on certain advance model of baby monitor will keep track for you. Choose the monitor with that feature as a reminder for you.

6. Are you concerned that the temperature of your nursery room might not be ideal? Today it’s easy to find a monitor that comes with temperature device on it. In order to keep the nursery at the ideal temperature you might want to consider a monitor with an in-built temperature display enabling you to continuously monitor the temperature of your baby’s room. There is also a monitor in the market that able to measure the temperature variances. If you’re concerned with this temperature variances overnight in the nursery you can try to pick the monitor that having ability in recording the maximum and minimum temperature the nursery got to during the night.

7. Do you need to be able to fine tune the intensity of your babies sound when not in the nursery? If so please choose the monitor with a sound-sensitive light display which is a display of moving lights which echo the level of your baby’s sounds meaning you can stay alert to your baby’s needs even with the sound turned down and can also judge when you want to react to your baby’s sounds.

8. Do you have more than one baby (maybe two children) and want to use two monitors at one time? However it is quite possible to use two monitors at one time, but it is not recommended to have two analogue monitors in close proximity as interference between the two monitors could prevent them from working properly. Using 2 DECT monitors in close proximity is fine and both will work normally with no interference. DECT is stand for Digital Enhance Cordless Telecommunications which is being the current standard in digital communications and representing worldwide general acceptance.

(Rewrote from Tomy Baby Monitor and other literatures).