kewl chika, tq.

BRYA: bloody right you are
OMG: Oh my God!
CBT: Can't believe this!
TIPTYK: This is Planet-tolkien, you know?

Found some more in an internet guide:

afaik - as far as I know
AOLer - AOL member (said to be often not a compliment? why?)
A/S/L - age sex location
bohica - bend over here it comes again
bd or bfd - big deal
f2f - face to face
g - grin
hth - hope this helps
imho - in my humble opinion
rtm or rtfm - read the manual
sol - sooner or later
tia - thanks in advance
wth? or wtf? - what the hell
ymmv - your mileage may vary

and some other emoticons:

X= fingers crossed
:=) little hitler (no disrespect to Germans)
{} hugging, (one Taz should find useful)
$-) greedy (or in my case, my ex)
X-) I see nothing (usefull to hogans heros fans)
:-X I'll say nothing (as above)
:-L~~ drooling (usefull when discussing actors in LOTR)
0:-) angel (dont expect to see this often)
}:> devil (expecting to see this!)
:8) pig
\O/ hallelujah
@}'--,-- a rose (handy for valentine's day or forgotten birthday)

and finally, one just for Plastic Squirrel

(_)] Beer!


HTH anyone who is not up with the latest cyber lingo! AFAIK it is exhaustive, though IMHO SOL sombody will come up with some more X=, so TIA and WTF? \0/ :-X more.
0:-) {} {} {}
@}'--,--

PL=please stop
i cant handle it

Yeah...sure Aule...we are all just writing AITGVETWTFOTE 24-7

vid-video
EJW-Elijah Wood (whom i will prolly use the droolin thingy 4)
Elwood-Elijah Wood

ORTRTAORTFTORTBTAAITDBT:one ring to rule them all......

i think i have sum more:

sum-some (unless sum1's doin math on here)
EW-Elijah Wood :-L~~
u-you
cya-see you
c-see

In that case I am not telling you, particularly as the next one is the big 4..0

They say life begins at forty, but for me life seems to have re-began so many times now, I'm just feeling extra-old.

Yeah, Prog's right Val! You're only as old as you feel... So if you feel 20, why would you worry about becoming 40? It's just a number, it's meaningless anyway.

And I'm glad to see so many people support me here. The cyber chatter does get on my nerves sometimes. And you even see it at school too now. Some people can't write proper English anymore! I met someone only last week who thought "you" is actually spelled "u".

WIETA: What is everyone talking about?
ARAMS!!!!: Acronyms really annoy me sometimes!!!!
BIGISSB...: but I guess I should stop babbling

Its ridiculous sometimes, isn't it?

Just wondering: why do we have to use all these acronyms and abbreviations? If it goes on for much longer, I don't think anyone can talk or write proper English anymore! I admit I use some of them myself, like cos and sth and lol and roflmao and so on, but at least I use them in a plainly English written text.

I think that you are right, Tommi. These abbreviations or cyber-speak have somehow infiltrated forums from chat rooms and SMS messaging, where their use is more appropriate.

In the forums, they do sometimes make people's posts difficult to read if the reader is not up to date with the language. I try to only use the well known ones, like LOL etc. and Tolkien specific ones like LOTR, that most people should either know, or be able to work out fairly easily.

I agree it does get a bit confussing at times. I think this thread will help, if I can remember where it is. lol.

What I really like in this Forum is that we are discussing in terms of equality and age does not matter. It's really great!
But returning to the question of cyber chatter, what does that mean, "topped"? This expression is often repeated in the titles of threads and I am more and more curious what does it mean?

Ah, I see!!! Thank you!

You're welcome.

Of course, if you do not use these cyber shortcuts or even contractions, but write everything out, you can use both the chat room and the forum to practice your English, as Thingol77 said elsewhere, and you can be more certain that the readers will understand what you are trying to tell to them. But don't mind me, just do that with which you are comfortable.

Accually you're right Ross(the bug thing-WETA).Anywyas, thanx Allyssa for answering that -and Eryan for asking, I also wandered a lot lot lot about it.

Dunno(though i'm usually the only one who uses it) means i DON'T know.-usually~~ i dunno-

Just thought to add that in.

I'm not sure whether they are the largest insects in the world (and mollusks are not insects), but the giant Wetas of New Zealand and the Cooloola monsters of Australia are certainly quite large (as insects go). Wingless crickets of the StenopelmapostThreadIDae family, they grow about 5 cm in length and weigh around 70 grams. Certain prehistoric dragonflies grew to around 60cm but there is nothing around today which compares to them.

Incidently, because insects rely on gaseous diffusion (rather than lungs or gills) to breathe, this limits the maximum size they can attain, hence we don't see killer wasps the size of eagles flying around.

Thanks for that info, Prog. The longest animal, however, is the Bootlace Worm which lives in the sea and can grow several hundred feet in length. Generally it is found, like all long lengths of string, to be knotted up in big balls.

Heh that's pretty cool.



You're right though, Erkenbrand. I actually met someone only a couple of weeks ago who thought (not kidding here) that "you" is spelled "u". Talk about cybertalk there. What's happening to language??

I agree with you Gimli. It annoys me to when people use cyber speak too much, and I tend to ignore them as well.

I don't really care too much about the bad spelling too much though, because I am a pretty bad speller myself. But you are right it is hard to take someone seriously if they can't spell or they use a lot of net speak.

I can't help my inabillity to spell. I was too busy blowing things up in the chemistry lab, doing physics, maths or sculpting in the art section of my school to really bother with learning to spell.

I dunno if i might be the only one, but i usually use PPL as people.