RN*, 'rents and g'rents, by studying this column carefully, U2* cn wrt a cmplt txt w/o mkng ne snse. (If your spellcheck doesn't blow up first LOL*) You may not know what you just said, but it makes us old folks sound like we're still 'hip', we're 'in the know', that we're not complete dinosaurs who are still using snail mail to communicate.
IMHO*, acronyms, AFAIC*, and the shortening of words are getting out of hand and it's really annoying to those of us over the age of 12
ṠIW* about this subject in 2016, there have been many more abbreviations added to the endless list of words PPL* have gotten too lazy to spell out. I understood it when we were restricted to 140 characters and had to be very succinct in our messages but nowadays posts on social media sites read more like hieroglyphics. If I had wanted to be a hieroglyphist, I'd have gone to college, although I doubt even someone in that field could interpret today's never ending list of shortened words that make no sense. It doesn't help that I have the memory capacity of a fruit fly which makes my CRS* even worse when it comes to attempting to decipher all the acronyms I come across on social media. By the time I've looked up what all the abbreviations mean, I've forgotten what the message was all about.
But I digress.
IS2M* just reading a post on social media requires a code book even the CIA* couldn't figure out without the help of the aforementioned 12-year-old. TBH*, based on some of the things I've read, we oldsters are better off not knowing.
Anyway, from my POV*, I think kids today are purposely acronizing everything to keep us in the dark but I'm on to them. I can RBTL*. SMH*. I know how to Google. SRSLY*, though, I've come across a list of acronyms that might be helpful (or not) to us senior citizens.
One of my least favorite is BAE* which I had been told was short for babe. Now really, how lazy can you be that you can't add the extra b? Did that save the poster a nanosecond? I took great delight in getting back at the little whippersnappers making up all these acronyms by pointing out that bae, in Danish, means excrement. One point for us oldsters. I have recently found out that BAE now stands for something else entirely. I wish they make up their darned minds and quit changing the meanings on us. We can't keep up. We have only so much room upstairs to store all this new information and I'm running out of space fast.
Here are just a few of that I came across in my diligent search (HAR*) for the meaning of whatever the heck the kids these days are talking about that might be somewhat helpful:
BRB–Be Right Back
W8–Wait
B@U–Back At You
DM–Direct Message
BBIAS–Be Back In A Sec
PITR–Parent In The Room
PBB–Parent Behind Back
POMS–Parent Over My Shoulder
KPC–Keeping Parents Clueless
PAH–Parent At Home
TNTL–Trying Not To Laugh
ADIH–Another Day In H E double hockey sticks
ZZZ–Sleeping, Bored, Tired
SSDD–Same Stuff, Different Day
TIME–Tears In My Eyes
BSAAW–Big Smile And A Wink
BWL–Bursting With Laughter
OMDB–Over My Dead Body
YGTR–You Got That Right
GMTA–Great Minds Think Alike
YNK–You Never Know
GAHOY–Get A Hold Of Yourself
GRATZ–Congratulations
AYOR–At Your Own Risk
NAGI–Not A Good Idea
ROFLMAO–Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off
CADET–Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try (That is SO not what that meant when we were kids. We called anyone a little goofy a Space Cadet.)
BUDWEISER–Because U Deserve Whatever Every Individual Should Ever Receive. (This is a good one although I've not seen it used.)
If you find all of this as confusing as I do, IFYP*.
And if YCU* anything I've written then all ICS is WOW.
In the meantime, DBMIB* thinking up ways to aggravate our grandkids so my 'research' wasn't a CWOT*.
RN–Right Now
U2–You Too
LOL-Laughing Out Loud (It does NOT mean Lots of Love. This one has gotten more than one grandma in trouble.)
IMHO–In My Humble Opinion
AFAIC–As Far As I'm Concerned
PPL–People
CRS–Can't Remember Squat
SIW–Since I Wrote
IS2M–It Seems To Me
CIA–Central Intelligence Agency
TBH–To Be Honest
POV–Point Of View
SMH–Shaking My Head
SRSLY–Seriously
RBTL–Read Between The Lines
YCU–You Can Understand
ICS–I Can Say
BAE–Before Anyone Else
IFYP–I Feel Your Pain
HAR–Not an acronym but a sound of laughter with a sarcastic connotation
DBMIB–Don't Bother Me, I'm Busy
CWOT–Complete Waste Of Time
'rents–Parents
g'rents–Grandparents
If any of you were able to read this without cheating, then you must be under the age of 30.
Kids kpn the 'rents in the drk 4evr.