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Can someone please decipher the language of texting and blogging for me?
What are the terms, and what do they mean?
Please explain.
JTH
About John Harms
JTH is a writer, publisher, speaker, historian. He is publisher and contributing editor of The Footy Almanac and footyalmanac.com.au. He has written columns and features for numerous publications. His books include Confessions of a Thirteenth Man, Memoirs of a Mug Punter, Loose Men Everywhere, Play On, The Pearl: Steve Renouf's Story and Life As I Know It (with Michelle Payne). He appears (appeared?) on ABCTV's Offsiders. He can be contacted [email protected] He is married to The Handicapper and has three school-age kids - Theo, Anna, Evie. He might not be the worst putter in the world but he's in the worst four. His ambition was to lunch for Australia but it clashed with his other ambition - to shoot his age.
well, JTH, there’s lol, which means “laugh out loud”, and there’s a few others that I don’t use but im sure my fellow teenagers do
Lol- laugh out loud
Rofl- Roll on floor laughing
Lmao- laugh my ass off
Omg- Oh my god
“He’s mint” – gee that guy is good looking
“What a muffin!” – “what a cute guy, too bad he’s younger than me!”
Bffl- Best Friends for Life
Fully sick- when some thing is so cool or ‘hip’ (this is Muzza talk)
Lol: Laugh out loud
Rofl: Rolling on floor laughing
Lmao: Laughing my arse off
Iirc: If I recall correctly
Btw: By the way
Brb: Be right back
G2g: Got to go
There’s a few more floating around the internet..
IMO- in my opinion
ATM- at the moment
BRB- be right back
BBS- be back soon
GTG- got to go
L8tr- later
Lyk- like
Danni what does ‘ILY’ mean? I’ve heard that term before.
Emo- Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile and wear lots of black and ripped clothes.
ILY- I love you
Apart from the ones already mentioned:
FWIW – For what its worth
TTYL – Talk to you later
IMHO – In my humble opinion (a more mature one)
FML – The last two words are “my life” (a less mature one)
MLIA – My life is average
JK – Just kidding
I should add that all the laughter ones are very overused.
7: Naw thanks :) haha
Gee, i’m trying to think of more abbreviated words used in the internet and texts but my mind has gone blank.
Love Danni’s definition for emo.
Metro – A Metro, or Metrosexual Male, that is straight, but mistaken for being homosexual because of his fun, happy personality, his good hygiene, and his neat dressing.
Connex – An older version of a Metro.
Chillax
A mixture between the terms “chill out” and “relax”.
Bro-
Bros actually chose this name for themselves as they often refer to each other as “bro” even though they are not related. (again this abused by muzzas)
Danni, give the explanation of a ‘muzza’.
Muzzas are low life drug addicts who have spiky hair
i got this off a website-
MUZZA:
muzza is a young male, usually of southern European decent (even though they’ve never been there), that are born and raised Melbournians. Living in middle-class western and northern suburbs they are depicted by their cars..
Usually canary yellow VL turbos (often built by the Rajabs), VN 5 litre’s, VQ Statesmans or the R33 Skyline..
Baseball caps are constantly worn alongside hair product, but to make sure they dont wreck their hair the caps sit on top of their hair (and away from the fringe). Bum-bags are a must to hold all your mobile phones (one for the bros, and one for the hoes), and also some change to spend at maccas.
They walk like they’re trying to immitate a scarecrow, or like they’re holding a bucket of water in each hand (with a subtle swaying motion) This is often a result of going to the gym once or twice and thinking your lats are so huge you cant put your arms straight down your side.
They spends $100 + on hair care products. A muzza is usually in Champion, Adidas, Kappa, Diesel, P.O. Box etc. for any occasion.
ps- at one stage in her life Danni found them appealing b/c of their hair..now..not as much. lol
IMHO can also mean: in my HONEST opinion
As well as all the ones above, there are some pretty ridiculous ones going around that more or less mock the acronym frenzy:
ROFLOL – Roll on the floor laughing out loud
ROFLOLSHMTH – Rolling on the floor laughing out loud so hard my tummy hurts
ROFLOLSHMFJ – Rolling on the floor laughing out loud so hard my fat jiggles
And so on and so forth.
And no, I did not make those last two up. They were all the rage about 4 years ago.
10: Speaking of LMAO – good one Adam :p
Oh and you also have Roflmao (which rolls of the tongue quite beautifully): Rolling on floor laughing my arse off
theres also cul8r (see you later)
SOTTVIRWIIN?- Some of this text vocabulary is ridiculous why is it needed?
i think Metro guys dress the best!!
sk8terboi- i dont mind skaterboys
I consider myself to be a tiny bit Metro..that’s not a bad thing though.
21- lol i agree and no its a VERY GOOD THING!! :)
Nawww- when some thing happends that is really CUTE!
EG- a mother duck and her 20 ducklings over take you on a foot path.
That only happens in cartoons danni
24- but its the perfect example!
“Rents” – short for parents.
Meh: Sort of a sigh as if you don’t really care.
omgcysdttmpirgfuwaybs- oh my god can you stop doing this to me please, im really getting fed up with all your bull sh*t
28: that’s a new one.
23: How slow are you walking if ducklings can overttake you??? :-s
30- lol pretty slow, i dunno i really like duckies!! so i just used that as my example! lol
29- Nah its actually real, there’s also this:
wtawmutmi6arcsyttartbsmbwagttiiaroowtthwef-
what time are we meeting up tonight mate, is 6 all right, cool, see you there then, and remember to bring some money because we are going to throw it into a river on our way to the hospital while eating fish
LNSOTCOJTHT – Let’s not stage our trivial conversations on John T Harms’ thread. What does the T stand for anyway?
Thesaurus
Gee I hope we didn’t confuse you Mr.Harms
Danni, your use of Mr.Harms makes JTH seem like a mean english teacher
I don’t think anyone has mentioned “wtf” yet, which, as I understand it, means “I’m confused”.
Nor has “nfg”.
I’m not sure what NFG stands for, but it did remind me of NFI – not a clue.
np – no problem
nw – no worries
5 – Damian W, did you ask that question just so you could hear Danni say those magic words to you?
lol Gigs! don’t be mean.
In all seriousness Damo didnt know what it meant!
Josh in the other hand..lmao comment-9
wtf- well the poltie way of putting it is What the FUDGE- ofcourse the Fudge part is normally replaced with the real ‘f-word’
lol
ILY – that’s what I said to a poster of G Ablett junior after last year’s GF victory – after a thousand stubbies too.
42- lol i dont need any sort of alcohol to say ILT to my Computer screen saver of Jack Anthony! lol
infact i prob say it eveytime i go to the main screen!
:)
ILY***
Wasnt able to get it out when i met him though!
surprised no ones questioned me about 32 hahaha.
32: ..what sorta fish??
flake my friend
I’m glad no-one’s been told to STFU yet. Nor has anyone been pwnd. Maybe that’s because no-one cbf. Whatever: KUTGW.
John, put the terms into google and it will show you the way.
Just never ever use these terms as a substitute for real words in an actual conversation. If you do, it may just be suggested that you GTFU…