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Home » Computer and Mom » Can you understand chat acronyms on your teens’ chatbox?

Can you understand chat acronyms on your teens’ chatbox?

chat acroWith the expansion of technological development in communication, sentences and words in communication are shrinking to weird abbreviations and short forms. When you look at your kids’ chat dialog box, you may find your kids are typing in completely foreign language. You do not understand this ‘IM Language’ they communicate or the ‘chat slang’ they are most frequent to type. You must be worried that your kids are ruining their language skills and do not follow rules of sentence construction or grammar. And also you could be skeptical whether they interact or meet as you cannot figure out what they are talking. How many times have you seen typing them a message like “Im 47/m/ny, LMIRL 121”? (Yes, you should.)

This abbreviated form of conversation is to be translated as “I’m a 47 years old male who lives in New York, let’s meet in real life one to one.”

We all use abbreviations in our conversation, both written and verbal. But, the text messages on mobile phones and chat programs have taken it to a new level and abbreviated a complete sentence. Hence, to understand what languages your kids speak and what they are typing, whom they are talking to – you need to delve into the world of chat acronyms and start becoming familiar.

Here is one tip: your kids mostly remove vowels from the words to fit their entire text message in the stipulated word size of words. For this, “Thanks For The Memories” goes short like “Thnks fr th Mmrs”. You must be familiar to commonly used acronyms such as lol (laugh out loud), brb (be right back), btw (by the way) etc. So, here are some more unfathomable chat acronyms that were alien to you.

121: one to one

ADN: any day now

AFK: away from keyboard

AFAIK: as far as I know

B4N: bye for now

BBFD: big bad forum discussion

BB: best boy

BFF: best friends forever and BFFL: Best Friends For Life and BFFN: Best Friends for now

BMA: best mate always

BG: big grin or best girl

BRT: be right there

BNR: but not really

BTA: but then again

CNP: continued [in my] next post

CID: crying in disgrace

CU: see you and CUL: see you later

CYA: see you and CYO: see you online

DBAU: doing business as usual

DW: dont worry

DD, DH, DS, DW: dear daughter, dear husband, dear son, dear wife

FML: F*** My Life and a popular site named, FMyLife.com

Similarly, FTW: for the win, For The World or f*** the world

FUD: fear, uncertainty, and doubt/Food

G2G or GTG: got to go

By Nidhi


Nidhi is the Gizmo Gal for iYogi. A writer by choice and Gizmo Geek by nature, she brings the hottest and latest happening in the Gadgets’ world. So, when you need a peek inside the tech world, you know where the action is.

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