2008 Internet Speech

Grampy Bobby

Boston Lad

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16 Feb 08 22:02

Grampy Bobby

Boston Lad

USA

Joined: 14 Jul 07
Moves: 43012

16 Feb 08 23:33

Originally posted by Nordlys
IMO - In my opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMNSHO - In my not so humble opinion
FADD - Feline Attention Deficit Disorder
TLA - Three-letter acronym

OMG, it's working. Learning new stuff is 'awesome cool totally'.

-gb🙂

orangutan

ook

hirsute rooster

Joined: 13 Apr 05
Moves: 21918

16 Feb 08 23:36

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Originally posted by huckleberryhound
LMOAWHMLICFITSA - Laugh My Ass Off Wondering How Many Letters I Can Fit In This Stupid Acronym. 😛

HUCKLEBERRYHOUND:

He usually can't
keep little entries beyond
ears reach. Really - Yawn.

Holding out
un-necessary
delusions.

Nordlys

The sky

Joined: 05 Apr 05
Moves: 10385

16 Feb 08 23:38

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Originally posted by orangutan
HUCKLEBERRYHOUND:

He usually can't
keep little entries beyond
ears reach. Really - Yawn.

Holding out
un-necessary
delusions.

Oh, we need to revive that thread... I'll see if I can find it.

Edit: Thread 52354

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

Joined: 12 Oct 05
Moves: 42584

16 Feb 08 23:41

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Originally posted by orangutan
HUCKLEBERRYHOUND:

He usually can't
keep little entries beyond
ears reach. Really - Yawn.

Holding out
un-necessary
delusions.

ORANGUTAN - Total Knob 😛

orangutan

ook

hirsute rooster

Joined: 13 Apr 05
Moves: 21918

16 Feb 08 23:46

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
ORANGUTAN - Total Knob 😛

goes up to eleven

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

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Moves: 42584

16 Feb 08 23:48

Originally posted by orangutan
goes up to eleven

That's a lot of centimeters.

orangutan

ook

hirsute rooster

Joined: 13 Apr 05
Moves: 21918

16 Feb 08 23:56

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
That's a lot of centimeters.

Envious eh?

huckleberryhound

Devout Agnostic.

DZ-015

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Moves: 42584

16 Feb 08 23:58

Originally posted by orangutan
Envious eh?

What's wrong, is your right hand sore ?

Grampy Bobby

Boston Lad

USA

Joined: 14 Jul 07
Moves: 43012

17 Feb 08 06:34

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Originally posted by Nordlys
IMO - In my opinion
IMHO - In my humble opinion
IMNSHO - In my not so humble opinion
FADD - Feline Attention Deficit Disorder
TLA - Three-letter acronym

Just about to call it a day and got to thinking about the new 'speech' I've learned today (part of my ritual of living is to review each day).

Anyway, began to wonder about these new words. Specifically if they really move the expression of language forward or if they're nothing

more than another set of generic code words to hide behind. Help me.

-gb

Edit: Guess maybe at this point I'd rather dumb up than dumb down. 🙂

Iron Monkey

Primal Primate

holiest of holies

Joined: 05 Nov 07
Moves: 6631

17 Feb 08 06:42

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Meph, is continuing coinage still encouraged or even allowed? If so, could a (first two letter, namesake) word like... GBIYH possibly gain acceptance?
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.
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'Go back in your hole' or the polite version, 'Please go back in your hole'.

-gb🙂

yeah, that one's gonna cut people to the quick. especially those who are still attending primary school.

Iron Monkey

Primal Primate

holiest of holies

Joined: 05 Nov 07
Moves: 6631

17 Feb 08 06:53

Originally posted by epic0002
heres one Gramps that you can use quite often... especially to the monkey
STFU - Shut the F up

here's one i could say to epic if we were in the same physical location: COHASTAYLT - come over here and say that again you little twerp.

Ponderable

chemist

Linkenheim

Joined: 22 Apr 05
Moves: 716623

17 Feb 08 07:09

Originally posted by st00p1dfac3
WTF?!? (What The ****?!?) Yes, it makes a difference. Yours is wrong. That's the main difference. It's like the girl at work who swore LOL stood for "Love You Lots." Which is unbelievably stupid, but true. (LOL = Laughing/Laughs Out Loud.)

Edit - I forgot to add the FTW variation (For The Win when used in a positive or **** The World when tattooed on an arm attached to a guy riding a Harley Davidson.)

actually lol has been explained to me this way when I first encountered it about 10 years ago.

MissOleum

Joined: 31 Jan 07
Moves: 93899

17 Feb 08 07:36

some of us "old codgers" keep up with www.urbandictionary.com 😀

shavixmir

Lord

Sewers of Holland

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Moves: 94446

17 Feb 08 08:02

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Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
2008 Internet Speech

BTW, LMAO and ROTFLMAO...

are the only three contemporary vocabulary 'words' I've learned so far. So how about devoting a few minutes to teaching a still teachable

dinosaur/codger what he needs to know to come of age, to tighten up his posts in the process and to pass with respectability in a crowd.

Please and thank you.

-gb 🙂

Please Grampy Bobby, don't go there!
Don't destroy the beautiful English language like so many heathens these days!!!

Take a step back...

You'll see.
You can write LOL (laugh out loud) at someone's comment, but it's just a few letters more to actually say: "Hell... that was funny, boy!"

Don't take the dark path! It's easier... that's true. But ultimately you'll end up saying: "L.O.L. Cya L8R" on the phone...

Take a step back.

Slowly. Step back.

st00p1dfac3

Joined: 26 Jul 06
Moves: 13610

17 Feb 08 10:55

Originally posted by Ponderable
actually lol has been explained to me this way when I first encountered it about 10 years ago.

Which way? The "love you lots" way? That doesn't make sense since the middle letter is an 'O.'

I don't know - I first started seeing these things on local BBSes way back in 1992/3ish and they were explained to me as:

LOL = Laugh/Laughs/Laughing out loud.
ROFL = Rolling On (the) Floor Laughing.
ROFLMAO = Rolling On (the) Floor Laughing My Backside Off.
BRB = Be Right Back.
TTYL = Talk To You Later.
WTF = What The Heck?

I think that was all of them back then...