This guide will help those frustrated with these acronyms, abbreviations, and slang words used by Internet social media users to interpret.
TTYL: Talk to you later.
Cya: See ya; as in, I’ll see you later
DL: Download.
SEO: Search Engine Optimization
Orly: Oh really?
Yarly: Yes, indeed.
MMO/MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game
WOW: The World of Quantcast
F2P: Play. also indicates never play this game.
OP: Original Post/Poster
OC: Original Content. (Probably a story)
LOL: Laugh out loud. (No one really laughed out loud before typing this in the 90s)
ROFL: Rolling the floor laughing
LMAO: Laughing off my ass.
ALL CAPS: A shout indicates the presence of Billy Mays.
Lolcats: Cats in cute and funny pictures with captions written in a certain category. netspeak which is lolspeak. The most common example of lolspeak is “I haz a cheeseburger?” that is a request from a cheeseburger.
FML: F — My life. In particular, it refers to a very popular site for short stories outlining the daily struggles of readers.
1337: he pronounced “leta” a corrupted form of the word elite. It indicates internet or computer programming skills of the highest order. 1337sp34k or leetspeak used numbers to type words.
Plox/plz: Please
Pwn: the proper type of word. It was a common thing that the torches were thus restored to their own. It means to dominate, to strike, to prevail, etc. Pwnage is a common form.
Post: forum topic and all answers.
Godwin’s Law: “As the wire grows longer, the probability of a comparison with the Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” When this happens, it is considered the end of the sequence and the proof of all parties involved is no longer or has never been reasonable.
Lurk/Lurker: Hidden is the act of reading a forum or chat without actually arranging something. This is usually approved and disapproved in equal parts, so that the plotter contributes nothing, but does not detract from the discussion.
Spam: highly repetitive commenting/E-mailing/commenting usually perpetrated by someone who stands to make a profit. Spam is the most hated offense on the internet. If it is spam or what is believed to be spam, it will be banned at full penalty.
Ban: When Moderator chat/forum/text service/etc. forbids the disposal of a person, usually as a punishment. There are many kinds of goods. The permaban is intended to be permanent and will last until the administrator removes it. An IP ban would block a particular IP address so that any user at that address cannot log on to that site; this often brings drama irl when multiple families use the same computer. System Ban blocks the user’s non-ip but blocks his system, the variety of the ban is very easily circumvented.
Banhammer: when a person can ban individuals, they are said to exercise the banhammer.
Mod: Moderator usually wields a strong banhammer.
Shoop/Shop: to Photoshop or edit the image digitally.
Teh: “God”. Lollspeak.
Moar: Intentional distortion of “more” lolspeak
Liek: Intentional declension of “like” only to indicate approval or affection, not similarity. lolspeak
N00b/noob: Someone who has not learned proper social tricks, a role. of, or sufficient skill and experience for the use of any. Usually a video game but anything with a chat or forum will be n00bs. Unlike a “newb” who is simply a n00b new to something, the n00b can remain indefinitely. N00b is an insult to stupidity, incompetence, incompetence, ignorance, social incompetence, and often naïveté.
Trolley: Although at the beginning it meant something else, now it is a matter of one who makes inflammatory statements with the intention of emanating from people. Trolls make fun of arguments and almost always care little or nothing about the substance of what we are doing. ” Troglodytes ” is called ” who says ” Troglodytes ” ; Trolls dislike food more than trolls themselves. Don’t feed the trolls, it only strengthens the hate.
Google: The benevolent dictator of the internet and the final arbiter of all knowledge. When the word is used, it means to search for the term using Google.
AFK: A Songs.
FTW: For Win.
IM: Instant Messaging.
G2G: Go; I have to leave.
BRB: (I) Be Right Back.
Meme: Hard to say; it is essentially an internet “in joke”.
Imho/imo: In my humble opinion.
