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Old May 29th, 2001
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Default Off topic: Language question

Hallo:

for not being a native english speaker it is sometimes very hard to decipher some postings ridden with abbreviations. So, let me ask some things:

IMHO, AFAIK, FYS, KMA: What does this mean?
FYI: Is this 'for your information'?
WBR: With best regards?

Also I am very often wondering about something I call for myself 'degraded' language, eg:
(sum 1s spelling b4 u r l8), (I mite ov felt sawry for u if yoo had nevr called sum usrs "stoopid dumb@$$". Tuf luk pal.) and the like. I always thought this was written by people very unexperienced with English, but a friend of mine told me that this is, as he called, 'american style'. Is this true?

People, please remember that not the whole world is american, that many people here are from Europe and other countries/continents, and it is not too much time lost in writing complete. It is going so far that I am beginning to skip posts with too many things like 'cuz' (because?), u r, kewl (cool?), l8 (late?), ** (night?) ppl (people?) and the like.

Greetings.....
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Old June 3rd, 2001
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Default Re: Off topic: Language question

Quote:
Originally posted by chr_rossi
IMHO, AFAIK, FYS, KMA: What does this mean?
FYI: Is this 'for your information'?
WBR: With best regards?
IMHO: in my human opinion
AFAIK: as far as i know

don't know about the others (hopefully someone else will explain), but here are some other important ones:

ROTFL: rolling on the floor laughing
IIRC: if i recall correctly
RTFM: read the ****ing manual

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Also I am very often wondering about something I call for myself 'degraded' language, eg:
(sum 1s spelling b4 u r l8), (I mite ov felt sawry for u if yoo had nevr called sum usrs "stoopid dumb@$$". Tuf luk pal.) and the like. It is going so far that I am beginning to skip posts with too many things like 'cuz' (because?), u r, kewl (cool?), l8 (late?), ** (night?) ppl (people?) and the like.
hm ... i agree and disagree *g* some abbreviations are ok to use, just to shorten things. a lot of people aren't very fast at typing. ** l8 and ppl are quite self-explaining, aren't they (you're interpretations were right)? i don't use them, but don't have a problem with them either. the things you wrote about above that are just people who can't write proper english i guess a lot of them also think it's very cool to write that way. just don't care about it and skip messages being full of this. the abbreviations at the top of your message (IMHO etc.) on the other hand are quite standardised internet-abbreviations. i had a good link to explanations of them but haven't found it yet. i will post it here, if i find it ...
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