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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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