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And as long as there’s texting, chatting, and microblogging, there’ll be word abbreviations. So instead of stopping your kids from using these (they won’t) or cursing the new generation for bastardizing human language (they aren’t; who started the abbreviations like TBA, ASAP, FYI, and LBM? Certainly not this new generation, right?), take time to understand these common abbreviations and you’ll realize that it won’t hurt knowing them or using them when appropriate or when communicating with your kids. 
ADIH – another day in hell
AFK – away from keyboard (thanks lyshee for the contribution)
ASL – age, sex, location (almost a staple at the start of a chat)
AYDY – are you done yet? (what do you think are they doing? LOL)
BIF – before i forget
B4N – bye for now
BOOMS – bored out of my skull
BLNT – better luck next time
BBS – be back soon
BCNU – be seeing you
BRB – be right back
BTDT – been there, done that
BTW – by the way
CID – consider it done
CUL8R – see you later
CSL – can’t stop laughing
DQMOT – don’t quote me on this
EG – evil grin
FOAF – friend of a friend
FWIW – for what it’s worth
FWM – fine with me
FUBU – fuck buddy
FTW – for the win or fuck the world (take a pick!)
GAL – get a life
G2G or GTG - got to go
HAND – have a nice day
IDC – i don’t care (or IDKIDN – i don’t know, i don’t care)
IKR – i know, right?
IME – in my experience
IMHO – in my humble opinion
IOW – in other words
JK – just kidding
JTLYK – just to let you know
KIT – keep in touch
LBH – let’s be honest
LMAO – laughing my ass off
NMU – not much, you?
NBD – no big deal
NOOB – a newbie
OMW – on my way
OTP – on the phone
PAW – parents are watching
PCM – please call me
PIR – parent in room
PROLLY – probably
POS – parent over shoulder (or MOS - mom over shoulder)
ROTFL – rolling on the floor laughing
SIT – stay in touch
SFETE – smiling from ear to ear
SPST – same place, same time
SYS – see you soon
TAFN – that’s all for now
TOY – thinking of you
TTD – things to do
TTFN – ta ta for now
TTYL – talk to you later
WFM – works for me
WTF – what the fuck?
WB – welcome back
WTH – what the hell?
WYGOWM – will you go out with me?
XOXO – hugs and kisses
If you want to find more acronyms and their meanings, click here or here.
Do you know of other abbreviations? Drop it in the comment and I’ll include it here.
Hate the abbreviations? GAL! 
that’s too numerous for me to remember
I think abbreviations originated in the early days of the telegraph and then the very slow teletype communications where you literally hear every character typed much like the typewriter. Nowadays the text revolution created a new plethora of more complex abbreviations.
As for LMAO, there’s a variant to it – LFMAO. I guess you can figure it out
i thought it was LMFAO, as in laughing my fat ass off
thanks for the education. idk text and hardly chats so these are really helpful for me; tho’ who knows when i get to use them.
i’m neither a parent too but i deal with so many Gen Ys every year so this is also a reminder for me. hehe.
Here’s my contribution:
AFK or Away from keyboard~ works better than the “Busy” sign I tell you..
BTW, am sending this to my Dad!
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LOL. hope your dad finds this enjoyable.
barry, TTD, BIF:
- bring cambodia books/materials. your “bad experience” searches are really useful, IMO. LBH.
- i already have dessert and bismuth has pasta. there’s coffee here.
-JTLYK, the only laptop is the small travel laptop i bring around. you should PROLLY bring your big laptop. i just don’t know how you can connect to the wifi, which MSP secured. IKR? i’ll ask him to give me instructions.
TAFN. GTG. BCNU tomorrow! HAND!
the funniest you’ve ever written. ROTFL.
bismuth is bringing her laptop. i will,too, as my cambodia mats are in soft copies. i’ll bring batangas coffee, too. hehe.
ha! ha! such a cool post!
as to limit keystrokes on my phone and just to get the message across, I find myself using most of these EZ lingo’s on the list too. :p
Ok then, B4N, HAND and TC Barrycade!
haha. i still can’t get myself into using all these actually, so my text messages are almost always the full words.
btw, glad to see you on twitter. TC2!
wh-wh…
where have i been all these years?
ROFL!
that’s a sign of old age. tsk tsk tsk. LOL.
It was ADIH AFK so BOOMS, BLNT BTW FWIW GAL HAND JK I am LMAO.
TAFN TTD
XOXO
aliens will love us if we talk like this everyday
LOL,…I am an avid surfer for nearly a decade now and yet I am only familiar with a tenth of the list…that’s so not good.
I once got taken aback when someone I communicated with expressed the abbr XOXO, like for me X was not like good, so I thought she was mad at me…
It turned out that it was for hugs and kisses…whew!
LOL. I used to think it was part of those emoticons until I learned it was much more than eyes and mouths.
If I were to remember all the abbreviations being used now, I’d probably confuse one for the other. Old school me ahhh!
You are not alone!
I’m familiar with most of the abbreviations posted.
Pero hindi ko ginagamit kadalasan.
Using these abbreviations take some getting used to. Like most people, I don’t think I’ll get used to this. It’s just helpful to know what these means so you know what other people are telling you. haha.
hahaha… dami kong hindi alam dito.
hehehehe ang kulit
h tfti iretp a itlal
meaning:
hey thanks for the info i really enjoyed this post an i truly learn a lot
LOL. ywagtylal.
meaning: you’re welcome and glad that you learned a lot.
for a while, i was somewhat lost in translation. hahaha!
Haha, this is a helpful post (at least for me!) I’m not so acquainted with these kind of abbreviations and/or acronyms.