Sunday, December 19, 2010

Tutorial: Common Acronyms/Abbreviations

There are hundreds of common chat acronyms and abbreviations that come up online.  There are guides to these all over the place, but here are ones that are specific to or seem to come up a lot in the VDS community.  (Note: A well-constructed Google search can often define an acronym if you're not familiar with it - or you can just ask!)

VDS - Vampires: The Darkside (hopefully you know this one!)
FB - Facebook
HL - the hit list (HLer for hit lister (one who puts others on the hit list), also verb forms, like "to HL someone" or "I was HLed")
SC - self claim (HLing someone and claiming your bounty yourself)
FL - fight list
OMW - on my (FB) wall (as in "rage posted omw")
RTF- return the favor
BBE - black blood exchange (used as a noun to refer to the process and also as a noun to refer to your black blood exchange partner as in "Fehu is my BBE;" also used as a verb as in "He BBEed me"); likewise, BB is black blood
FR - friend request (FS - friend suggestion)
CR - clan request
PM  - private message (the term for sending a message to someone in FB; can be used as a verb as in "PM Therese to join her VDS family!")  ;-)

TY - thank you (or TYVM for thank you very much)
YW - you're welcome (or YVW for you're very welcome)
NP - no problem

LOL - laughing out loud
ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing
LMAO - laughing my a** off
PMSL - pissing myself laughing
(combinations also common, for example: PMSLMAO or ROFLMAO)

WEG - wicked/wide evil grin

IMO - in my opinion
IMHO - in my humble opinion

FTW - for the win
BRB - be right back
AFK - away from keyboard
AFAIK - as far as I know
ATM - at the moment
TTYL - talk to you later
TTFN - ta ta for now
G2G - got to go
W2G or WTG - way to go

Feel free to add more in comments!

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