Acronyms in Chat

Acronyms in Chat

Shortcuts to Express Yourself in Chat

If you spend any time in a chatroom you will notice chatters seem to have a secret code of letters that apparently mean something.

Just a few visits to chat and you too will be shortening words into ACRONYMS - letters, that mean something.

Here is a handy chart to help you understand what these Chat Acronyms mean - special thanks to KT Chatters, Mr. Crusher, Austin and the gang for submitting these. If you know one that is not listed don't hesitate to Submit It on the forums.

Chat Acronyms

AND	Any Day Now	AFK	Away from Keyboard
B4N	Bye For Now	BAK	Back at Keyboard
BBL	Be Back Later	BIOYIOP	Blow it out your IO port
BL	Belly Laughing	BRB	Be Right Back
BTA	But then Again	BTW	By the Way
CUL8TR	See you later	DYKU	Did You Know
F2F	Face to Face	FISH	First In Still Here
FWIW	For What It's Worth	FYI	For Your Information
<g>	Grin	GAL	Get a Life
GIWIST	Gee, I wish I said that	GMTA	Great Minds think Alike
IAC	In Any Case	IMY	In My Case
IC	I See	ILY	I Love You
IBCNU	I'll be seeing you	IBGN	I be going now
IMO	In My Opinion	IMHO	In My Humble Opinion
IOW	In Other Words	J/K	Just Kidding
L8R	Later	LD	Later Dude
LDR	Long Distance Relationship	LLTA	Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LTIP	Laughed til I puked	OIC	Oh, I see
OTF	On the Floor	OTOH	On the Other Hand
OLL	Online Love	~POOF~	Exiting the room
PMJI	Pardon me for Jumping In	ROFL	Rolling on Floor Laughing
ROFLMBO	Rolling on Floor Laughing My Butt Off	RSN	Real Soon Now
SIG	Special Interest Group	SO	Significant Other
STATS	Age/Gender/Location check	SYL	See You Later
TAFN	That's All for Now	TANJ	There is No Justice
Tgif	Thank God It's Friday	TTFN	Ta Ta for Now
TTUL	Talk to you Later	Txs	Thanks
WFM	Works for Me	WU	What's Up?
WUF	Where are you From?	WYSIWYG	What you see is What you Get

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