$0.02 Throwing in your two cents' worth
<eg> evil Grin
<g> Grin (very common)
<gd&r> Grinning, ducking, and running! (uncommon)
AAMOF As a matter of fact (very rare)
Abk. Abkürzung (german)
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIC As Far As I'm Concerned
AFAIK As far as I know - soweit ich weiá
AFK Away From Keyboard
AISI As I See It
aka also known as
AMF Goodbye (Adios Mutha-......)
ANFAWFOS And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor
ANFSCD And Now For Something Completely Different...
APA Amateur Press Association
AS On Another Subject
ASAFP As Soon As Friggin' Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATSL Along The Same Line
AWGTHTGTATA Are We Going To Have To Go Through ALL This Again?
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
AWHFY Are we having fun yet?
AYOR At Your Own Risc
B4 Before
B4N Bye for Now
BAD Broken as Designed
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBL Be Back Later
BBR Burnt Beyond Repair
BBS Bulletin Board System
BCNU Be seein' you! (saying goodbye)
BFHD Big fat hairy deal (a la Garfield the Cat) (very rare)
BFN Bye For Now
BION Believe it or not
BMTIPG Brilliant minds think in parallel gutters
BNF Backus-Naur-Form
BNF Big Name Fan
BOT Back On Topic
BRB Be right back (typically used when leaving briefly
during a conference)
BRS Big Red Switch
BTA But then Again (in response to IOW)
BTAIM Be that as it may
BTHOM Beats the hell outta me!
BTOBD Be there or be dead
BTSOOM Beats the S**t Out Of Me
BTW By the way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
bzgl. bezglich
bzw. beziehungsweise
CADET Can't add, doesn't even try
CIS Compuserve Information System (tm)
CI$ (same as above)
CO Conference
CP Copy Protection
CPP C plus plus
CPU Central Processor
Unit
CRPG Character (or computer) Role Playing Game
CRT Cathode Ray Tube
CU See you (bis bald)
CU2 see you too (ja, also bis bald)
CUL Catch You Later
CUL See You Later
CUL8R See You Later (bis später)
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your A**
DDD Direct Distance Dial (as in the phone system)
DIIK Damned If I know
DIIK Darn if I know
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A Darn?!
DILLIGAF Do I Look Like I Give A [*CENSORED*]!
DL or D/L Download (transmit to you)
DNPM Darn Near P***ed Myself
DTRT Do The Right Thing
DV Datenverarbeitung
DV DesqView
DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly
DWIMNWIS Do What I Mean, Not What I Say
EBNF extended Backus-Naur-Form
EDV elektronische Datenverarbeitung
EOD End Of Discussion (Ende der Debatte)
EOF End Of File
EOL End Of Lecture
EOT End of Thread
ESAD Eat S... and Die
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
evtl. eventuell
FAQ FAQ = Frequently asked questions (haeufig gestellte Fragen)
FB Files Busy
FCFS First come, first served
FD Floppy Disk
FD FrontDoor
FDC Floppy Drive Controller
FDD Floppy Disk Drive
FFRD Flying freep in a rolling donut (I don't give a...)
FIAWOL Fandom Is A Way Of Life
FIJAGH Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby
FIMD Foot-In-Mouth Disease (open mouth,insert foot,echo
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank
FLAME eine beleidigende Message eines Netzteilnehmers an einen anderen.
fn Funktion
FOAF Friend of A Friend
FRED Flaming Ridiculous Electronic Device
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTF Face to Face
FTL Faster Than Light
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Repair
FUBAR Fouled Up Beyond All Repair
FUBAR Fouled up beyond all recognition (also as FOOBAR or - as a filename: FOO.BAR
FUBB Fouled Up Beyond Belief
FUD Fear, uncertainty, and doubt
FURTB Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!)
FWIW For What It's Worth
FYI For Your Information (zu Deiner Information)
g,d&r grinning, ducking, and running
g,d&rf Grinning, ducking and running FAST!
g,d&rvvf Grinning, ducking and running VERY VERY FAST
GA Go Ahead
GD&R Grinning, Ducking & Running
GDW Grin, Duck and Weave
GFR Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer)
GGC Goo Goo Cluster (cause zits & intestinal blockage)
GIGO Garbage in, Garbage Out
GIGO Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the
com-
puter says)
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That (ich wnschte, ich h„tte das gesagt)
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GMAFB Give me a freeping break
GMTA Great minds think alike
GNU gnu not unix
GO get off (verschwinde aus meiner Leitung)
GOWI Get on with it
GPF General Protection Fault (Old UAE, New Name!)
GP,F Go Puke, Fast!
GROK As in "I GROK" means thorough understanding. From R.A. Heinlin
GUI graphical user interface
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HD Hard Disk
HDC Hard Disk Controller
HDD Hard Disk Drive
HHO 1/2 K Ha, Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha, Ha, Only Kidding
HHTYAY Happy Holidays to You and Yours
HSIK How Should I Know (sometime HTFSIK)
HTH Hope this Helps!
HUA Heads Up, Ace
IAAA I am an accountant
IAAL I am a lawyer
IANAA I am not an accountant
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IAC In any case
IAE In any event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC I see (ich verstehe)
IIABDFI If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I Tell You What It Means Will You Buy Me A Drink?
IITYWTMWYKM If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me?
IIWM If It Were Me (Mine)
ILSHIBAMF I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture!
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMCO In My Considered Opinion
IME In My Experience
IMHO In my humble opinion [the speaker is never humble]
(meiner bescheidenen Meinung nach)
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion (meiner Meinung nach)
IMPOV In my point of view
INPO In No Particular Order
IOU I owe you... (ich schulde Dir...)
IOW In Other Words
ISBAB I Should have Bought A Book
ISR interrupt service routine
ITFA In the final analysis
ITMSS I take myself so seriously (ich nehme mich selbst zu ernst)
ITSFWI If The Shoe Fits, Wear It
IWBNI If would Be Nice If
IYFxxx Insert Your Favorite xxx (xxx e.g. Ethnic Minority in jokes)
IYFEG Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group
JAM Just a moment
JAS Just a second
JAWS Just another Windows shell
JIC Just In Case
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
KBD Keyboard
KHYF Know How You Feel
KISS Keep It Simple, Stupid (um es kurz zu fassen: echt bl”d)
KMA Kiss my arm (shouldn't be used online...)
L8R Later
LABATYD Life's a bitch and then you die
LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die.
LAGNAF Let's All Get Naked And [*CENSORED*]
LD Long Distance
lib Library
LLTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
LMAO Laughing My Arm Off
LOL Laughing Out Loud
lsg L”sung
LTIP Laughing Til' I Puke (Lachen bis zum Kotzen)
LTNT Long Time, No Type
m.a.W. Mit anderen Worten
MC machine code
MLA Multiple Letter Acronym
MOF Matter Of Fact
MOTAS Member of the Appropriate Sex
MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member of the Same Sex
MOTM Member of the Month
MOTH Humorous Collectibles Forum variation on Member of the Month
MSC Microsoft C
Msg Message
MTBF Mean Time Between Failure
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MYOB Mind Your Own Business
n/a not applicable
NAVY Never Again Volunteer Yourself
NBD No Big Deal
NBFD No Big F***ing Deal
NFG No Freeping Good
NFI No Friggin' Idea
NFW No Freeping Way
NFW No Friggin' Way!!
NIH Not Invented Here (Very common at Microsoft)
NIMBY Not In My Back Yard
NINO Nothing in, nothing out
NINO No Input, No Output
NOYB None Of Your Business
NQA No Questions Asked
NTIM Not That It Matters
NTIMM Not That It Matters Much
NTW Not to Worry
NTYMI Now that you mention it
NUI Network User Identification
OATUS On A Totally Unrelated Subject
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
obj Objekt
OBLI obligatorischer (=verpflichtender) On-Topic Anteil
einer Message (sehr verbreitet in der JOKES.GER)
OBTW
Oh, By The Way
Ofs Offset
OFTPATHIRIO
Oh F*** This Place And The Horse It Rode In On!
OIC
Oh, I see (jetzt versteh' ich's)
ONNA
Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA
Oh No, Not This Again
OOTC Obligatory On-Topic Comment
op Operator
OTF On the Floor
OTL Out To Lunch
OTOH On the other hand (andererseits)
OTOOH On The Other Other Hand
OTTH On the third hand
OTTOMH Off The Top Of My Head
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
OZ Australia
PABG Packing a Big Gun
PBM Play by Mail (Games)
PDN Public Data Network
ped xing Fussgaenger kreuzen ( Verkehrszeichen! )
PFM Pure F***ing Magic
PITA Pain in the Anatomy
PITA Pain In The A**
PLOKTA Press Lots of keys to abort
PMBI Pardon my butting in
PMFBI Pardon Me for butting in
PMIGBOM Put Mind In Gear, Before Opening Mouth
PMJI Pardon my Jumping in
POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters
POTS Plain Old Telephone Service
POV Point Of View
PPN Programmer Project Number; currently known as UserID
PPP Petty Pet Peeve
PPPP Previous Paragraph was Polemical Position
PPTSPAHS Please Pass The Salt, Pepper And Hot Sauce...used when
Prgm Program
proc Prozedur
PS postscript / post scriptum
Ptr Pointer
QP Quick Pascal
RAEBNC Read And Enjoyed, But No Comment (an APAabbreviation)
RFD Request For Discussion
RHIP Rank Has Its Privileges
RLCO Real Life COnference
RNA Ring, No Answer
ROFL Rolling on floor, laughing (krmme mich vor Lachen)
ROF,L Rolling on floor, laughing
ROFLASTC Rolling On Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat!
ROFLGO Rolling On Floor Laughing Guts Out!
ROFLMAO Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLAHMS Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** Off
ROTFLTC Rolling on the floor, licking the glue
RPG Role Playing Games
RRQ Return Receipt Request (Empfangsbest„tigung)
RSN Real Soon Now (when WP 6.0 or other vaporware will arrive)
RTFF Read That Fucking (FAQing, fine, freaking or whatever) FAQ
RTFM Read That *Fine* Manual
RTFM Read the "friendly" manual (or message)
RTFM Read The Farging Manual!
RTFM Read The Fershlugginer Manual!
RTFM Read The Flaming Manual!
RTFM Read The Freaking Manual!
RTFM Read The Friendly Manual
RTFM Read The Friggin' Manual!
RTFM Read The Fucking Manual!
RTFMA Read The Friggin' Manual, Again
RTL run time library
RTWFQ Read The Whole Friggin' Question (a pers TRIV fave)
RYFM Read Your Friendly Manual
RYFM Read Your Friggin' Manual!
RYFM Read Your Fucking Manual!
RYS Read Your Screen
s.Zt. seiner Zeit
SAPFU Surpassing All Previous 'Foul' Ups
SCNR Sorry, couldn't resist
Seg Segment
SF Science Fiction or Speculative Fantasy
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
SNAFU Situation normal, all fucked up
SnailMail The U.S. Postal Service
SO Significant Other
SOGOTP Sh*t or get off the pot
SOI Stunk On Ice
SOL S*** Out of Luck
SOS Same old Stuff
SOW Speaking of which
SSDD Same stuff, different day
SUFID Screwing Up Face In Disgust
SWAG Super Wild A** Guess
SWMBO She who must be obeyed
Sysop System Operator, person who runs the BBS/Forum
TAF That's All, Folks !
TAFN Thats all for Now
TANJ There Ain't No Justice (Niven)
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TARFU Things Are _Really_ Fouled Up
TBYB Try Before You Buy
TDM Too Dang Many
TFS Thre Finger Salute (Ctl-Alt-Del)
TFTHAOT Thanx For The Help Ahead Of Time
TFTT Thanks For The Thought
TGAL Think Globally, Act Locally
THANX Thanks
TGIF Thank God Its Friday
THX Thanks
TIA Thanks in advance
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TINWIS That Is Not What I Said
TLA Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA)
TM Thread mangler
TNSTAAFL There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TNX Thanks
TOBAL There Oughta Be A Law
TOBG This Oughta Be Good
TOT Turbo Object Toolkit, Nachfolger von TTT
TP Turbo-Pascal
TPTB The Powers That Be
TRDMC Tears Running Down My Cheeks
TSJD Texas Size Jelly Donut
TSR Terminate and stay resident program
TSR Totally Stupid Rules
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTL4N Thats the lot for now
TTT Technojocks Turbo Toolkit
TTUL Talk To You Later
TTYAWFN Talk To You A While From Now
TTYL Talk To You Later
TTYL Talk/Type To You Later
TV Turbo-Vision
TYCLO Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off (Quit Shouting)
u.ae. und aehnlich
u.U. unter Umst„nden
u.v.a. und vieles andere
UAE Unrecoverable application error (Bane of Windows' users!
Now surpassed by GPF)
UL or U/L Upload (send to the BBS)
UNCLE Unified Nuclear Coalition of Latvian Emigrants
UTSL Use The Source, Luke!
w/o without
WAEF When All Else Fails
WAG Wild A** Guess
WDYMBT What Do (or Did) You Mean By That?
WE Wochenende
WGAS Who Gives A [*CENSORED*]?!
WIBAMU Well, I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle
WIMP Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing (to describe Windows and other
similar interfaces)
WizOp Wizard Sysop; the primary forum administrator for a forum
WMMOWS Wash My Mouth Out With
Soap!
WNOHGB Where No One Has Gone Before
WOA Work Of Art
WOFTAM Waste of Flaming time and money
WT Without Thinking
WTF What The F***
WTF What the Freep
WTFDIK What the Freep Do I Know
WTFZDN What The FUCKK Zit Doin' Now?
WTH What the Heck
WTTM Without Thinking Too Much
WYLABOCTGWTR Would You Like A Bowl Of Cream To Go With ThatRemark?
WYLASOMWTC Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk With ThatComment?
WYSBYGI What you see before you get it
WYSIWYG What you see is what you get
WYGIWYPF What you get is what you pay for
YADS Yet Another DOS Shell
YAOTM Yet Another Off-Topic Message
YAxxx Yet Another xxx
YGLT You're Gonna Love This ...
YKYARW You Know You're A Redneck When==
ZKN Zur Kenntnisnahme
ZNT Ziffnet