I don’t know what’s got into me of late LOL and now I have a problem. I have deliberately steered clear of using the text acronyms that I see spattered throughout Facebook and Twitter and instead stuck to the more genteel and polite smiley or sad face to express my thoughts. Why? Well, IHA and own up to not knowing what half of them mean. Knowingly insulting someone is OK, but I wouldn’t want to accidentally insult someone because of my ignorance. It’s alright replying to my online attempt at humor with: LMFFAO. But what if I agree that you, a BAC, have a FFA to LO? Surely that would earn a WTF or two or even lead to a de-friending AFDN.

Damn, I’d have to reply, AYFS?

Just the thought of it has me PIMPL.

Coming from Yorkshire, I am still struggling with the English language but hey, I’m getting it. It’s NBD. Of course, BIND we had our own abbreviations. We couldn’t text them but we could shout them out or write them in chalk on the pavement. I was reminded of this by Mr. Skin, a musician and fellow radio host on Island 92 91.9fm.  His new band is called KINELL. We used to run around the streets as kids shouting KINELL at the top of our voices. I hadn’t thought about it in years but it still makes me laugh. It makes me laugh even more today because BON, 90% of people don’t know what it means!

I tell you, YCMTSU.

One acronym that has sneaked into text messaging goes way back and anyone serving in the military over the last 100 years will know the meaning of SNAFU. If you are intent on learning this stuff then that might be a good place to start. 

Now that I’m out of the closet and admit to knowing some chat acronyms and text message shorthand, I’ll leave you GR&D.

Thanks for reading the blog, GTG.

HITAKS

PLO

Gary