Question on Forum Shorthand

[Russ Kay]

FWIW, I'm familiar with most of the abbreviations we use, but I'm scratching my head about BTTT -- would someone please spell it out for me? Thanx.

 

[philthygeezer]

Back To The Top...

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

Back to the top.

 

[BruiseLeee]

I thought it was Buncle Till's Test Tuy.

I guess you can't be right all of the time.

 

[JUSTRIGHT]

What is FWIW?????

 

[Tohatchi NM]

For
What
It's
Worth

Or the sound I make playing softball....

 

[BruiseLeee]

Or the sound of me digesting chili.

 

[Bill Martino]

Bruise is still the king of the one liners.

 

[Daniel Koster]

I won't tell you how long it took me to finally figure out this one:

ROTFLMAO

 

[lcs37]

BTTT gave me fits, also.

IIRC If I Recall Correctly, gave me alot of trouble, too. I kept associating the II with Roman Numeral 2.

As always, Forumites and UB clued me in.

 

[BruiseLeee]

Someone told me to STFU. I had to ask him what it meant.

 

[Federico]

Ill bite, what does STFU mean Bruise? When I was little (maybe around eight) I used to read the word pigeon and think it was pronounced pie gee on, and centre was sentry. Then again growing up in an ESL household, I did not have the best handle on the English language.

 

[BruiseLeee]

The first two are "shut the" and the last one is "up".

You can fill in the rest. Losta friendly people out there on the internet.

 

[MauiRob]

You're not alone Russ! I had trouble with IIRC AND BTTT and others I can't remember right now. Sometimes these abbreviations are more trouble than they're worth, OTOH, They do come in handy;p

Speaking of ROTFLMAO, Yvsa makes it even more difficult with his "ROTFLMRRAO"

 

[Rusty]

I went to The Acronym Database at the link below. Unfortunately it was temporarily off line fow software servicing or something like that. In the event they actually are and come back up in a couple days, here's the link:

http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms

 

[Rusty]

Rolling
On
The
Floor
Laughing
My
Arse
Off

Yvsa's version goes:

R
O
T
F
L
M
Royal
Red
A
O

Referring to the number of non-NDN girls who claim " Oh, my great-grandmother was a Cherokee princess ".

 

[munk]

....from the 'rosy red rat's ass' days.


It is a fact a rat can have a rosy red ass, with all the hair worn off. Balls too.

Are Indian Princess's anything like Jewish Princesses? Is a Princess a priss by any other name?


munk

 

[Bill Martino]

I'm learning.

 

[Ferrous Wheel]

I've been using this (improperly, I gather) to mean

Freakin
Laughed
My
A$$
Off.

Well, somebody's gotta come up with some.

I still like the computing-related acronym - GIGO

Garbage in, Garbage out.

Keith

 

[Daniel Koster]

not to be forgotten:

SWMBO

KWIM

BTW

TY

WYSIWYG

AFAIK

...and many more