chat lingo - glossary of instant message

RU SITD or gr8 @ texting? If you don't know what any of that means, then here's a handy glossary to help you decipher some of the more popularly used text language and what the abbreviations and Net lingo mean.

2moro Tomorrow

2nte Tonight

AEAP As Early as Possible

ALAP As Late as Possible

ASAP As Soon as Possible

ASL Age/Sex/Location

B3 Blah, Blah, Blah

B4YKI Before You Know it

BFF Best Friends, Forever

BM&Y Between Me and You

BRB Be Right Back

BRT Be right There

BTAM Be that as it May

C-P Sleepy

CTN Cannot talk now

CUS See You Soon

CWOT Complete Waste of Time

CYT See You Tomorrow

E123 Easy as 1, 2, 3

EM? Excuse Me?

EOD End of Day

F2F Face to Face

FC Fingers Crossed

FOAF Friend of a Friend

GR8 Great

HAK Hugs and Kisses

IDC I Don't Care

IDK I Don't Know

ILU/ILY I Love You

IMU I Miss You

IRL In Real Life

J/K Just Kidding

JC Just Checking

JTLYK Just to Let You Know

KFY Kiss for You

KMN Kill Me Now

KPC Keeping Parents Clueless

L8R Later

LOL Laugh Out Loud

MoF Male or Female

MTFBWY May the Force be with You

MYOB Mind Your Own Business

N-A-Y-L In a While

NAZ Name, Address, ZIP

NC No Comment

NIMBY Not in my Backyard

NM Never Mind/Nothing Much

NP No Problem

NSFW Not Safe for Work

NTIM Not that it Matters

NVM Never Mind

OATUS On a totally Unrelated Subject

OIC Oh, I See

OMW On My Way

OTL Out to Lunch

OTP On the Phone

P911 Parent Alert

PAL Parents are Listening

PAW Parents are Watching

PIR Parent in Room

POS Parent over Shoulder

PROP(S) Proper Respect Your/Proper Recognition

QT Cutie

RN Right Now

RU Are You

SEP Someone Else's Problem

SITD Still in the Dark

SLAP Sounds like a Plan

SMIM Send Me an Instant Message

SO Significant Other

TMI Too Much Information

UR You Are

W8 Wait

WB Welcome Back

WYCM Will You Call Me?

WYWH Wish You Were Here

XOXOXOX Hugs, Kisses, ...

YMMD You made my Day

Understanding these few terms will indeed help you use chat more efficiently. This guide was originally published by Black Dog Media, which has many enlightening guides covering several devices and operating systems.

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