ForumSpeak

[jamesglewisf]

This will get the list going. Please add your own. Remember to keep them clean. Forumspeak for curse words is not acceptable at MarriedAdults.com.
FAQ - Frequently asked questions
LOL - Laugh out loud
ROFL - Roll on floor laughing
BTW - By the way
IMO - In my opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMNSHO - In my not so humble opinion
OTOH - On the other hand
FWIW - for what it's worth
AFAIK - As far as I know
IIRC - If I remember correctly
TLA - Three-letter acronym
OT - Off topic
ETLA - Extended three-tetter acronym
IRL - In real life
IRC - Internet Relay Chat
ICQ (http://www.icq.com) - I Seek You. Online chat tool. Owned by AOL.
AIM (http://www.aol.com/aim/) - AOL Instant Messenger. The other online chat tool.
bump - To make a meaningless comment in an important thread so that it will get pushed back to the top of the forum.
flame - (1) A heated argument, especially one that degrades into personal attacks rather than rational discussion of the subject matter. {fire}
flame - (2) Anytime anyone dares to disagree with *me* :)
popcorn - When a flame war heats up, sometimes the only rational thing to do is to watch it like a bad movie. Be sure to bring lots of popcorn.
asbestos - a flame-retardant material; see flame.
<aol>Me too</aol> - Pseudo-html making fun of AOL users' tendancy to chime in with content-free agreement in Usenet discussions.
smilies (http://marriedadults.net/forum/index.php3?action=showsmilies) - These thingies: :) :(
newbie - Someone new to the forum.

[jamesglewisf]

OP - It's either Original Post or Original Poster. It's the person who first posted in the thread.

[Carrie Earls]

I needed this thread! I am brain-dead when it comes to internet/forum/computer lingo. But I am learning.

Thank You.

[jamesglewisf]

board(s) - Short for bulletin board.
bulletin board - A program on a computer system or on the Internet where users can post messages to each other. The Forums At Married Adults.com is a bulletin board.
forum(s) - (1) Another name for a bulletin board. Hence, "The Forums at Married Adults.com."
forum(s) - (2) One of the discussion areas on a board. "Welcome to The Forums" and "Anything Goes" are two forums on this board.
thread - A discussion within a forum. It is composed of several messages or posts. The name of this thread is "ForumSpeak."
post - (1) An individual message within a thread. The first post in a thread is called the OP (original post). The following posts are called replies.
post - (2) The act of adding a post to a forum. You "post" your reply to the thread.

[blinc]

Thank you! There were a few that I didn't know, like IRL. I've seen it used, but didn't have a clue. :)

[jamesglewisf]

ALL CAPS is the equivalent of shouting what you want to say. Shouting with ALL CAPS is considered rude. If you want to use emphasis, use bold instead. The way you bold text is to use vB Code (http://marriedadults.net/forum/index.php3?action=bbcode). Every page has a link to this. Just click on the link that says "vB code." There is always a link next to it that tells you how to do smilies.

[jamesglewisf]

ISTR - I seem to recall

[jamesglewisf]

Spam - 1) Unsolicited email.
Spam - 2) Flooding a bulletin board with irrelevant posts to increase your posting counts.
Spam - 3) Flooding a website directory or search engine with multiple submissions of your website.

[jamesglewisf]

ROFWL - Roll on floor with laughter
ATM - At the moment

[RoadRunner]

IANAL - I am not a lawyer.

[RoadRunner]

BRB - Be right back
YMMV - Your mileage may vary (meaning that things may be different in different circumstances)
TTYA! - Thanks to you all!
AFK - Away from keyboard
BBS - 1) Bulletin Board System
BBS - 2) Be back soon
UBB - Ultimate Bulletin Board
LSHIPIMP - Laughing so hard I peed in my pants
LSHIGRBUMN - Laughing so hard I got root beer up my nose
IOW - In other words
TM - Teeming millions
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
TWIAVBP - The world is a very big place
WOMBAT - Waste of money, brains, and talent
BILC - Because it looks cool
TLA - Three-letter acronym
NIMBY - Not in my back yard
GIGO - Garbage in, garbage out
YOYO - You're on your own
GD&R - Grinning, ducking & running
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get
FOAF - Friend of a friend
OTL - Out to lunch
IM(R)HO - In my (rarely) humble opinion
TTYL - Talk to you later
l8r - later
NATO - Not able to organize
AOL - Almost online
DYPMTTUAYGA - Do you people make these things up as you go along?
PBCK - Problem between chair and keyboard
BBL - Be back later
UL - Urban legend
ftp - file transfer protocol
MPSIMS - Mundane pointless stuff I must share
LOTH - Leaning over toilet, hurling
NDFTT - Do not feed the trolls
SWMBO - She who must be obeyed (wife)
MCAS - My cornflakes are soggy
AHAGP - Anybody have any Grey Poupon?
TWFW - Too weird for words
WYSITWIRL - What you see is totally worthless in real life
YAFIYGI - You asked for it, you got it
BTL - Better than life
S&D - Search and destroy
SBD - Silent, but deadly (ninja fart)

[jamesglewisf]

SUFBAMT - Sneak up from behind and massively tape.
LTNC - Long time no chat

[theyeti]

Those are funny! MCAS :D

A while ago i found a good website for any obscure ones.. its at http://www.chatdictionary.com

[Karenluvs6]

OMG : Oh my goodness or Oh my ***. I prefer the first one
IHNI : I have no idea.

[jamesglewisf]

SOH - Sense of humor
GSOH - Great sense of humor

[jamesglewisf]

GAL - Get a life

[blinc]

MIL = Mother In Law
FIL = Father In Law
BIL = Brother In Law
SIL = Sister In Law

[jamesglewisf]

cya - See ya!

[blinc]

I've got a question on one. P: or is it :P or something with a capital P in it... what does that mean or represent?

[jamesglewisf]

That's the code for the smiley with a stuck out tongue on a lot of boards. :-P

[blinc]

Thanks! That's one more thing I can check off the "Things I'm ignorant about" list! {toothy}

[Karenluvs6]

IMHO had me going for over a year!
I had no idea what it meant.

[jamesglewisf]

Originally posted by blinc
Thanks! That's one more thing I can check off the "Things I'm ignorant about" list! {toothy} Sorry I couldn't have made more of a dent in it.

Ducks and runs.

[TDR]

This going to sound really bad to everyone but I had no idea what LoL meant till about 5 months ago:). I always just thought it meant something like "a/s/l"
And if any of you use any type of instant messenger you know that people always go to you going "a/s/l". I never runderstood what that meant.

[blinc]

Originally posted by jamesglewisf
Sorry I couldn't have made more of a dent in it.

Ducks and runs.

{toothy} HAHAHAHAHAahahahaaa ha? Hey, wait just a minute... :|

[jamesglewisf]

:) :-P :)

[blinc]

Well this isn't a forum speak question, but didn't know where else to put it! Why do so many names have a _ mark in them? Like Donald_R_Duck... or something like that?

[jamesglewisf]

Most user names and all email names cannot have spaces, so people use the underscore or hyphen.

[blinc]

{idea} Ahhh, the lightbulb goes off! I was wondering why that was and now I know! thank you! :)

[jamesglewisf]

Just saw Nudnik use this one: AFAICT - As Far As I Can Tell.

[Military Mom]

Ahh thanks for that clarification, Jim, I was looking a that, feeling quite dumb.

Actually, I am quite NUMB right now, thank you very much, lol - but that is another story.

List of smilies (mm Style)

8^)

>:-)= = Devil with goatee

@'-,-'-, = long stemmed rose

^^YourNameHere^^ = wings


That's all of the non-vulgar ones I can think of right now. heh

mm

[Flea]

@-->-->-- = another long stemmed rose.

^^flea^^ = I like my name in wings. :)

[jamesglewisf]

bump

[RoadRunner]

Hey, check out the list at www.findalink.net (http://findalink.net/computertips/forumspeak.php). Looks like Jim consolidated our contributions.

[Tybalt0125]

nice, i didn't know all these stuff yet.
thanks a lot.

[Grimey]

DH - Dear Husband

That was really bugging me until I finally broke down and asked someone.

[theyeti]

me too. :-o

[kezzer]

or darling husband
ds and dd=== darling son & darling daughter

[Alec]

Take an acronym quiz: http://go.fark.com/cgi/fark/go.pl?IDLink=781916&location=http://html.local6.com/sh/quizine/833495/index.html

[jamesglewisf]

SAHM - Stay-At-Home Mom
SAHD - Stay-At-Home Dad

[EmBee]

TIA - Thanks in advance
IME - In my experience
BAC - By any chance
CMIIW - Correct me if I´m wrong
FITB - Fill in the blank
FWIW - For what it´s worth
IAC - In any case
JM2C - Just my two cents
NN2R - No need to reply
YSR - Yeah, sure, right
OKUW - OK You Win!
AWGTHTGTTA? - Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
BTDTGTTS - Been There Done That Got The T-Shirt
DQM - Don't quote me
TPTB - The Powers That Be
CRAFT - Can't Remember a Friggin' thing
DGUYDJ - Don't Give Up Your Day Job
YOYO - You're On Your Own
EMFBI - Excuse me for butting in
ICOCBW - I could, of course, be wrong
LLTA - Lots and lots of thunderous applause
PMJI - Pardon my jumping in
YMBJ - You must be joking
IKEWYM - I know EXACTLY what you mean

No wonder I can't remember my name anymore, it's not an acronym. Oh wait...
Misty =
- My iguana said that yesterday
- Mom is so tired...yep
- Maybe, if she'll tell you
- My inner self tried yodelling
...I like the second one the best at the moment...it's 5:15 a.m!

Sorry if any of these are repeats.

[CuriousG]

APWD - Albino Porcupine With Distemper

FYI
Since I use it all the time...

[Teresa]

HCBMLATSOTS

= Holy cow, Batman, look at the size of that spider!

(One of my favourites!)

[jamesglewisf]

HCBMLATSOTS

= Holy cow, Batman, look at the size of that spider!

(One of my favourites!)LOL! Where is that one from?

[Noseypoo]

Question for ya: Why does "L M A O" get bleeped out? Is that a bad thing to type?

[Alec]

Question for ya: Why does "L M A O" get bleeped out? Is that a bad thing to type?IMO, not really. But, jamesglewisf says that there is absolutely no cussing, so he doesn't allow abbreviations or acronyms for swear words. You can see it in the rules on the FAQ under number 3 (http://frappydoo.com/forum/faq.php?faq=frappydoo_faq#faq_fd_rules).

That seems a little over the top; but he said in a thread somewhere that he doesn't like having to figure out where to draw the line, so he draws it at absolutely no cussing or coarse language at all. I guess that makes it easier to moderate.

I remember that it used to really annoy a lot of new members just before FD was shut down in 2001, but there hasn't been much talk about it since he re-opened for business.

You gotta use LMBO instead. :)

[Noseypoo]

Okie dokie ;)

[Parrot0123]

I have a cousin who likes to use this one for when she has to go to the washroom:

TTB - Toilet Tractor Beam

[Noseypoo]

{rotflmbo}

[DataJack]

GMTA - Great Minds Think Alike

[cilleshoo]

how @ TARFU things are really fouled up

[cilleshoo]

youth and enthusiasm cannot overcome old age and treachery!

[cilleshoo]

Youth and Enthusiasm cannot overcome Old Age and Treachery!

[jamesglewisf]

Welcome aboard!

[Teresa]

I LIKE GMTA! Gotta use that! :)

[kurios]

hello,
i am here a new bie hoping for ur good support

[worldwoman1]

I'm new here what is going on in this thread

[jamesglewisf]

It is just a thread that explains forum speak - for example, ROFL meand Roll On Floor Laughing.

[Dude111]

And K-RAD means super awesome :)

[Dude111]

NWS=Not Work Safe

So if you see a thread with *NWS* on the subject line on any site,it means the content IS NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK,ETC........ (Its best not looked @ while working {toothy})

This site has every term used (A-Z)

http://www.noslang.com/dictionary

[alishalouise]

FTFY = Fixed that for you.
e.g. I can't seem to get the image to link properly.
No worries, I FTFY. <link>

Generally, I see it used when people misquote. If anyone frequents the Allakhazam forums, many of the players use it a lot.