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Acronyms

This is a list of the most common acronyms (shortened forms of phrases using capital letters for each word). Some of these are not used much (you should've seen some of the crap I left out), and then others are used far too much.

AAMOF
As A Matter Of Fact

AFAIK
As Far As I Know

AFK
Away From Keyboard

ASAP
As Soon As Possible

BBL
Be Back Later

BRB
Be Right Back

BTW
By The Way

CU
see you

CUL8R
see you Later

EZ
Easy

F2F
Face to Face

FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions

FWIW
For What It's Worth

FYI
For Your Information

GAL
Get A Life

GG
Good Game

GTG
Got To Go

HAND
Have A Nice Day

HTH
Hope That Helps

IAC
In Any Case

J/K
Just Kidding

IMHO
In My Humble Opinion

IMNSHO
In My NotSoHumble Opinion

IMO
In My Opinion

IOW
In Other Words

IRL
In Real Life

LOL
Laughing Out Loud

NRN
No Reply Necessary

OMG
Oh My God

OTOH
On The Other Hand

R & D
Research and Development

ROFL
Rolling On the Floor Laughing

ROFLMAO
Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Ass Off

THX
Thanks

TIA
Thanks In Advance

TTYL8R
Talk To You Later

WTF
What The F**k

Cool-Speak

You just know that's not true. The following are some quickly-typed versions of common words, favoured by the kidz.

2M
tomorrow

2nite
tonight

B4
Before

cos
because

j/k
Just Kidding

K
ok

kewl
cool

l8rz
see you later

m8
Mate

n/a
Not Applicable

w/
With

w/o
Without

Smilies

You can make your tone clear by suffixing your witty remarks with a punctuational smily.

:)
happy face

:-)
happy face redux

:(
sad face

;)
cheeky winking face
>:(
angry face

:-/
disappointed face