MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

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MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:20pm

Help please! I am an ignorant Scotsman who still doesn't know what all the abreviations used on this site mean. Could someone provide a glossary? It really should be a basic requirement of the site to make relative newcomers feel welcome. Confusing terms include:

lol - I would expect this to mean "lots of love" but this doesn't work in some contexts

img - no idea!

omg - Oh my God (I assume)

Please would someone "in the know" please help me out?

Many thanks!

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#2

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:23pm

lol - laugh out loud

img - image

omg - you are correct. oh my god.

#3

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:23pm

I believe F U! is also a big one around here

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#4

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:28pm

Two other big ones.

imo- in my opinion
imho- in my humble opinion (as if )

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#5

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:30pm

While each may have its varying degree of usefulness, I've always thought "LOL" was pretty stupid. Perhaps it's because most of the time people put it after things that I just don't think are actually funny (and can't imagine they do, either).

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#6

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:32pm

I think it has lost its meaning by horrible misuse.

(I know some posters who would put a "lol" after that comment.)

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#7

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:34pm

Ah,but you have to put LOL around everything , otherwise people take you seriously and denounce you as satan...

Whoah, wait a second...


...Is this a trick, you're not satan are you?

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So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space

#8

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:39pm

Oh, of course I'm not.
I simply have control of all the elements of evil in our nature.

People think I'm evil anyway, but the is more effective than the lol as an anger defuser.

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#9

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:42pm

But even so, I wonder why it's "laugh out loud." Often I just LSTM.

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#10

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:44pm

Sure,I suppose this is more effective, that is if you're attempting to solicit sex...

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So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space

#11

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:54pm

Funny I never thought of "winking smiley" as sexual. Just goes to show how little we can assume on a message board, maybe lol does not even mean "laugh out loud" at all.

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#12

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:56pm

LOL has come to be used in place of JK in a lot of instances. The one that has always irritated me is ROFL, as if anyone, EVER, was amused enough by something said in a chat room or on a message board to fall to the floor and roll around with glee. I mean, come on!

#13

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:02pm

hahaha i agree! for the longest time I never knew what ROFL stood for, but I knew it was like an lol.. one i dont know--what does ETA mean, i've seen it used before and felt stupid asking

#14

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:03pm

ETA- Edited to add, that one makes sense.

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#15

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:03pm

I am guilty of using "lol" entirely too much. It's just easier than trying to use "chuckling quietly to myself because I think I am darn funny."

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#16

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:09pm

LOL = I love Wicked
OMG = I love Wicked
Idina! = I love Wicked
Shosh = I love Wicked
Eden! = I love Wicked
Ana = I love Wicked
Maria = I love Wicked
Brandy = I love Wicked
Tayedina = I love Wicked and wrote to Taye and Idina when they got death threats and I probably scared them even though I was trying to be reassuring, and also, I was one of those "MR. PIZZA MAN!" fangirls

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#17

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:10pm

when I say "lol" I usually mean "I'm fake-giggling because I really don't know what to say, but I feel a need to say something" OR "what I said was funny..so laugh, damnit"

#18

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:13pm

Sometimes I actually do lol when I claim to lol...sometimes I fake it...a girl has to reserve herself.

#19

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:14pm

"LOL = I love Wicked
OMG = I love Wicked
Idina! = I love Wicked
Shosh = I love Wicked
Eden! = I love Wicked
Ana = I love Wicked
Maria = I love Wicked
Brandy = I love Wicked
Tayedina = I love Wicked and wrote to Taye and Idina when they got death threats and I probably scared them even though I was trying to be reassuring, and also, I was one of those "MR. PIZZA MAN!" fangirls"

GAL

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#20

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:15pm

LOL = I love Wicked
OMG = I love Wicked
Idina! = I love Wicked
Shosh = I love Wicked
Eden! = I love Wicked
Ana = I love Wicked
Maria = I love Wicked
Brandy = I love Wicked
Tayedina = I love Wicked and wrote to Taye and Idina when they got death threats and I probably scared them even though I was trying to be reassuring, and also, I was one of those "MR. PIZZA MAN!" fangirls

Haha! Don't forget
Gah= You know I love Wicked.

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#21

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:18pm

For the longest time, I thought ETA meant estimated time of arrival. You can imagine my confusion.

#22

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:26pm

Lizzie, I can honestly say that your post did indeed make me lol

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#23

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:36pm

i alwasy thought ETA meant estimated time arrival too.. so i was always confused.

#24

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:37pm

It actually is "estimate time of arrival". At least, in real life.

For example, at hospital, when they ask for the ETA of an ambulance, they get a number of minutes.

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#25

re: MESSAGE BOARD LINGO

Posted: 12/9/05 at 9:38pm

Wait...so what else does ETA mean?