Online Lingo

[Jeryhn]

http://www.missingkids.com/adcouncil/pd ... elingo.pdf

Reading CNN instead of working (as per usual), I came across this link. It's a list of acronyms and other misc shorthand phrases that are used over the internet in chat rooms, and are supposedly common-knowledge amongst many people.

...Only... I haven't heard of almost any of these...
BTHOOM = Beats the heck out of me?
GIWIST = Gee I wish I said that?
HHO1/2k = Ha ha only half kidding?
IYKWIMAITYD = If you know what I mean and I think you do?

They also left out some key internet-speak, such as:
WTF
GTFO
BBQKITTENS
ROFLCOPTER

Now this list is hosted on a site called missingkids.org. If this is what passes as a reference to help try and keep kids safe over the internet, may I be the first one to say that the next generation is fucked on this front. What parents really need is something more comprehensive, kinda like what UrbanDictionary does for each of these entries, if they wanna keep their kids safe over the interwebs.

[Lbelle]

Alot of web forums use crazyyyyyyyyy lingo. My mom asked me what some weird thing meant once and I just had no idea. She said she saw it on like a soap opera's forum.

But things like WTF and ROFL I would imagine to be on there. I mean, considering it's for a missing children website and I'd think most children use, or atleast know, those acronyms.

[Scythiroth]

I would probably have an easier time typing those out than remembering all those stupid letters. Short ones are fine, but people actually use long ones like those?...

[Aeromyth]

ZXQPKITKJGIR90.5RTSWMB

am i rite?!

[Scythiroth]

ZXQPKITKJGIR90.5RTSWMB

am i rite?!

GIWIST

[Syn]

It's mainstream.

[Panella]

Some of those really long ones just look silly. But really, things like BAG, BEG, DUST, PANS, SO, TOY etc. seem so stupid. They're actual words people, find a different phrase to shorten damn it.

ROL baffles me though. Raffing out loud? come on

[Foustian]

Some of those really long ones just look silly. But really, things like BAG, BEG, DUST, PANS, SO, TOY etc. seem so stupid. They're actual words people, find a different phrase to shorten damn it.

ROL baffles me though. Raffing out loud? come on

That's for the Scooby cosplay forum. Although I guess it would actually be ROR.