Online acronyms are so confusing
By astreadido
@astreadido (608)
Philippines
July 11, 2012 8:43pm CST
With the advent of Twitter came the ever growing list of online acronyms that we sometimes don't even know where they originated. Of course try squeezing your message in 140 characters, right. We now have LOL (laugh out loud), BRB (be right back), BBL (be back later), LMFAO (laughing my f*****g a** off), YOLO (you only live once) and so on. I even sometimes have to google some of it just to know their meanings.
Really, I'm 31 and I'm just catching up with today's kids. Imagine the older ones, like the kids are talking in another language or from another planet. Completely baffled.
2 responses
@damned_dle (3942)
• Philippines
12 Jul 12
I know how you feel.. but you will get used to it after some time after encountering it for a few times.. Anyway, I dont think twitter started it. It started with SMS!
@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
12 Jul 12
Let alone if you're not a native speaker. There were some acronyms that I've heard and seen for ages, even tried to come up with choices, but couldn't... it took me 3 years to figure out tgif meant Thank God it's Friday... also the yolo thing... for which I first found the "explanation" you obviously love Oreos :D-I knew something just wasn't working there :D. Had the same troubles witg g2g (gotta go)... and my American chat partners expected me to know all the hippest and latest acronyms...
