41850 abbreviations

Abbreviations
In order to save keystrokes, a lot of abbreviations have been in use. Here are some:
^5
High Five!
2BCTND To Be Continued
2G4U
Too Good For You
4YEO
For Your Eyes Only
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AKA
Also Known As
ASAP
As soon as possible
AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet?
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through
That Again
AYPI
And Your Point Is?
B4
Before
BBL
Be Back Later
BBIAF Be Back in a Few
BBIAB Be Back in a Bit
BCNU
Be Seein' You
BEG
Big Evil Grin
BFN
Bye For Now

BG
Big Grin
BIF
Basic In Fact
BRB
Be Right Back
BTW
By The Way
CM
Call Me
CUL8R See You Later
DUR?
Do You Remember?
F2F
Face To Face
FWIW
For What It's Worth
FYA
For Your Amusement
FYI
For Your Information
FUD
(Spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and
Disinformation
GAL
Get A Life
GMTA
Great Minds Think Alike
GR&D
Grinning Running And Ducking

HHO 1/2 K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
HTH
Hope This(That) Helps
IAE
In Any Event
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer, But ...
ICWUM I See What You Mean
IMO
In My Opinion
IMHO
In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW
In Other Words
IRL
In Real Life
J4F
Just For Fun
JK
Just Kidding
L8R
Later
LOL
Laughing Out Loud
LTNS
Long Time No See

MorF
Male or Female
MHOTY My Hat's Off To You

MOTD
Message Of The Day
MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex
MTFBWU May The Force Be With You
NBIF
No Basis In Fact
NFW
No F***ing Way
NFC
No Further Comment
NRN
No Reply Necessary
NSFW
Not safe for work (used as tag for sexually
explicit URLs)
NT No Text (used if a message is empty, Subject: only)
OBO
Or Best Offer
OBTW
Oh, By The Way
OIC
Oh, I see
OOTB
Out Of The Box (or Blue)
OTOH
On The Other Hand
POV
Point Of View
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing

RSN
Real Soon Now
RTFM
Read The F***ing Manual
RTM
Read The Manual
SITD
Still In The Dark
SMTOE Sets My Teeth On Edge
SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SWAP
Scientific Wild A** Guess
SorG
Straight or Gay?
T+
Think Positive
TAFN
That's All For Now
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free
Lunch
TIA
Thanks In Advance
TIC
Tongue In Cheek
TMTT
Too Much To Type
TTFN
Ta Ta For Now
TTYL
Talk To You Later

TTTT
To Tell The Truth
TX
Thanks
TYCLO TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF
TYVM
Thank You Very Much
unPC
unPolitically Correct
WAG
Wild Ass Guess
WB
Welcome Back
WEG
Wicked Evil Grin
WRT
With respect to
WTF?
What The F***?
WTG
Way To Go!
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get


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Typical Woman
Typical Man

Smileys

Part of the nature of a good one-on-one conversation is the use of visual cues. How important are facial expressions
and body gestures to a conversation? A simple eye movement can mean the difference between yes and YES. What
about auditory cues? The results is the same as with visual cues.
One way to indicate emotion is to add <g> for 'Grin', or <bg> for 'Big Grin'.
A more complex way to indicate emotions are the smileys or emoticons. They are simple strings of characters that
are interspersed in the e-mail text to convey the writer's emotions (cues). The most common example is :-). Turn your
head to the left and you should see a happy face (the colon is the eyes, the dash is the nose and the parentheses is
the mouth). Here are some more examples.

:-) smiley face (humour)

;-( crying

:-)) laugh

:-* kiss

(-: left handed smiley

:-X big wet kiss

;-) wink (light sarcasm)

:-e disappointment

:-| indifference

:-@ scream

:-> devilish grin (heavy sarcasm)

:-O yell

8-) big-eyed smiley

>;-> A very lewd remark was just made

:-D shock or surprise

:-& Tongue tied

:-/ perplexed

:-{} wears lipstick

:-( sad

O:-) Angel smiley

:-C real unhappy

:-Q Smoking smiley

:-P wry smile

:-[ Vampire smiley

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