Sniffle's Place - Acronyms

Have you ever wondered what all the abbreviations are that people use in chat rooms?
Even experienced chatters sometimes wonder what they are seeing as we come across
new acronyms every day. Most acronyms use the first letter of every word in a phrase.
This abbreviated form allows for quick typing.
Here are some of the most commonly used acronyms.

A/S/L	Age/Sex/Location	LOL	Laughing Out Loud
AFK	Away From the Keyboard	LTNS	Long Time No See
AKA	Also Known As	L8R	Later
ASAP	As Soon As Possible	J/K	Just Kidding
ATM	At The Moment	M8	Mate
B4	Before	MYOB	Mind Your Own Business
BBIAB	Be Back In A Bit	NM	Never Mind
BBL	Be Back Later	OIC	Oh I See
BBS	Be Back Soon	PITA	Pain In The A$$
BTW	By The Way	PPL/Peeps	People
CRS	Can't remember $hit	ROTFL	Rolling On The Floor Laughing
CU/CUL	See You/ See You Later	ROTFLMAO	ROTF Laughing My A$$ off
CYA	See Ya	TGIF	Thank God It's Friday
FYI	For Your Information	THX	Thanks
GGP	Gotta Go Pee	TTYL	Talk To You Later
GL	Good Luck	TY	Thank You
GMTA	Great Minds Think Alike	TYVM	Thank You Very Much
GR8	Great	W8	Wait
GTG	Good To Go/Got To Go	WB	Welcome Back
IC	I See	WTF	What The F**k
IMHO	In MY Humble Opinion	YVW	You're Very Welcome
IRL	In Real Life	YW	You're Welcome

Here are some not so commonly used acronyms:

?4U	Question for you	FUBAR	fu*ked up beyond repair
2L8	Too late	HCIT	How cool is that
AISI	As I see it	IAC	In any case
BC	Be cool	IAG	It’s all good
BFN	By for now	IIIO	Intel inside idiot outside
BD	Big deal	KISS	Keep it simple stupid
BTDT	Been there done that	NEI	Anyone
CID	Consider it done	NOYB	None of your business
DGT	Don’t go there	RTFM	Read the fu*king manual
EOD/EOL	End of discussion/lecture	WYSIWYG	What you see is what you get
F2F	Face to face	Y	Why

These acronyms usually describe actions:

<BS>	Big Smile	<LIS>	Laughing in Silence
<BH>	Big Hug	<S>	Smile
<EG>	Evil Grin	<SB>	Smile Back
<G>	Grin	<TIC>	Tongue in Cheek
<GBH>	Great Big Hug	<VEG>	Very Evil Grin
<H>	Hug	<VWS>	Very Wicked Smile
<HB>	Hug Back	<VWG>	Very Wicked Grin
<K>	Kiss	<VES>	Very Evil Smile
<KB>	Kiss Back	<W>	Wink
<L>	Laugh	<W>	Wicked Grin

Emoticons are keyboard symbols like dashes, colons, brackets and others
put together to look like a face or an item (like the rose seen here).
Here are some of the most common and not so common ones:

:)	Smiling	:'-(	Crying
:-)	Smiling With Nose	:-*	Puckering For a Kiss
:-(	Frowning	%-)	Confused but Happy
>:-(	Mad/Annoyed	{{{***}}}	Hugs and Kisses
:-D	Laughing	O :)	Angel With Halo
:-o	Shouting	=^.^=	Pussy Cat
:-0	Surprised	(_\|_)	Backside or Buttend
;-)	Winking	*<:-)(	Santa Claus
}:p	Disgusted	(:::{}:::)	A Bandaid
:-()	Big Mouth	@--,--	A Rose