List of Internet/ Usenet/Email Acronyms: new Slang/Shorthands docx

List of Internet / Usenet / Email Acronyms:
new Slang / shorthands
The following is a list of some common words or phrases that are used. The list is far from being
complete, it just contains the abbreviations, which I consider most useful. The acronyms /
abbreviations are mostly written in upper case.

2F4U Too Fast For You
4YEO
FYEO
For Your Eyes Only

AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ACK Acknowledgment
AFAIK As far as I know
AFAIR As far as I remember / recall
AFK Away from keyboard
ASAP As Soon As Possible

B2K BTK Back To Keyboard
BTT Back To Topic
BTW By the way

C&P Copy and Paste
CU See you
CYS Check your settings

DIY Do it yourself

EOBD End Of Business day
EOD End Of Discussion
EOM End Of Message

EOT End Of Thread / End of Text / End of Transmission

FAQ Frequently asked questions
FACK Full Acknowledge
FKA Formerly Known As
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information

HF Have fun
HTH Hope This Helps

IIRC If I Recall / Remember Correctly
IMHO In my humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble / Honest Opinion
IOW In other words
ITT In this thread
LOL Laugh out loud

MMW Mark My Words

N/A Not Available / Applicable
NaN Not a Number
noob n00b Newbie
NOYB None of your business

OMG Oh my God
OP Original Poster, Original Post
OT Off Topic
OTOH On The Other Hand

PEBKAC Problem exists between keyboard and chair
POV Point of view

ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing
RTFM Read the fucking manual

SCNR Sorry, Could Not Resist

TBA To be announced
TBC To be continued / To be confirmed
TIA Thanks in advance
THX TNX Thanks
TQ Thank You
TYT Take your time
TTYL Talk to you later

w00t Whoomp, there it is; meaning "Hooray"
WFM Works For Me
WTF What The Fuck
WTH What The Hell / What the Heck

YMMD You made my Day
YMMV Your mileage may vary

50 Rules for Writing Good - Writing tips
One of the more popular items that circulate through the network of folk faxology is a perverse
set of rules along the lines of Thimk, We Never Make Mistakes and (this one runs off the page)
PlanAhe These injunctions call attention to the very mistakes they seek to enjoin. English
teachers, students, scientists and (scientific) writers have been circulating a list of self-

contradictory rules of usage for more than a century, and have been collecting and creating them
for almost half of one. Whatever you think of these slightly cracked nuggets of rhetorical
wisdom, just remember that all generalizations are bad.
1. Each pronoun should agree with their antecedent.
2. Between you and I, case is important.
3. A writer must be sure to avoid using sexist pronouns in his writing.
4. Verbs has to agree with their subjects.
5. Don't be a person whom people realize confuses who and whom.
6. Never use no double negatives.
7. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. That is something up with which your
readers will not put.
8. When writing, participles must not be dangled.
9. Be careful to never, under any circumstances, split infinitives.
10. Hopefully, you won't float your adverbs.
11. A writer must not shift your point of view.
12. Lay down and die before using a transitive verb without an object.
13. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.
14. The passive voice should be avoided.
15. About sentence fragments.
16. Don't verb nouns.
17. In letters themes reports and ad use commas to separate items in a series.
18. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.
19. "Don't overuse 'quotation marks.'"
20. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (if the truth be told) superfluous.
21. Contractions won't, don't and can't help your writing voice.
22. Don't write run-on sentences they are hard to read.
23. Don't forget to use end punctuation
24. Its important to use apostrophe's in the right places.
25. Don't abbrev.
26. Don't overuse exclamation marks!!!

27. Resist Unnecessary Capitalization.
28. Avoid mispellings.
29. Check to see if you any words out.
30. One word sentences? Eliminate.
31. Avoid annoying, affected, and awkward alliterations, always.
32. Never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
33. The bottom line is to bag trendy locutions that sound flaky.
34. By observing the distinctions between adjectives and adverbs, you will treat your readers
real good.
35. Parallel structure will help you in writing more effective sentences and to express
yourself more gracefully.
36. In my own personal opinion at this point of time, I think that authors, when they are
writing, should not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words that
they don't really need.
37. Foreign words and phrases are the reader's bete noire and are not apropos.
38. Who needs rhetorical questions?
39. Always go in search for the correct idiom.
40. Do not cast statements in the negative form.
[Source: unknown]
A Translation of common Scientific Research
Phrases [Source: unknown]
This list of phrases and their translations might help you understand the mysterious language of
science in general and medicine / biology specifically. These special phrases are also applicable
to anyone working on a Ph.D. dissertation or academic paper at a university anywhere on earth.
Research Phrases Translation / Meaning
It has long been known I didn't look up the original reference.
A definite trend is evident These data are practically meaningless.
Of great theoretical and practical importance Interesting to me.
While it has not been possible to provide
definite answers to these questions

An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to
get it published.
Three of the samples were chosen for detailed
study
The results of the others didn't make any sense.
Typical results are shown This is the prettiest graph.
These results will be shown in a subsequent
report
I might get around to this sometime, if I'm pushed
/ funded.
The most reliable results are those obtained by
Jones
He was my graduate assistant.
It is believed that I think.
It is generally believed that A couple of other people think so, too.
It is clear that much additional work will be
required before a complete understanding of the
phenomenon occurs
I don't understand it.
Correct within an order of magnitude Wrong.
In my experience Once.
In case after case Twice.
In a series of cases Thrice.
According to statistical analysis. Rumor has it.
A statistically oriented projection of the
significance of these findings.
A wild guess.
Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for assistance with
the experiment and to George Frink for valuable
discussions

Blotz did the work and Frink explained to me
what it meant.
A careful analysis of obtainable data Three pages of notes were obliterated when I
knocked over a glass of wine.
It is hoped that this study will stimulate further
investigation in this field
I quit.
Different Terms / Categories for different
Types of Writing
• Extended Abstract
• Conference Paper
• Journal Paper
• Thesis
• Correspondence
• Proposal
• Instruction
• User Guide
• Presentation
• Report (technical, management)
• Web presentation
• Tutorial
• Textbook
• Literature