Internet Abbreviations That You Don't Get

iguana

I was stumped for a while by DH. I knew it meant husband, but why the D. I always said Dear Husband in my head but wondered why anyone would say "I was talking to the dear husband last night" as opposed to "I was talking to my husband last night."

But it turns out that my instinct was correct and DH is for dear husband, and I guess people want to abbreviate but don't want to only have one letter so they stick in a made up one? I've also noticed DD or DS which is Darling Daughter and Darling/Dear Son. Also in some posts the poster is pi$$ed off with the DH, so I don't know why they are calling him dear.

Now lately I've been seeing OH, which is usually about husbands, and sometimes boyfriends but I have no idea what the O stands for.

And why would you abbreviate something, but add an extra letter to do so?

Adam

I'd guess OH is actually "other half"...

OH ftw

seamus

Can't say I've ever seen anyone write DH. I'd be utterly perplexed if I saw it.

Mr Rivers

tinwop = thread is nothing without pictures

and

wtityb = whatever, tell it to your blog

are my favs

seamus

seamus wrote:

Can't say I've ever seen anyone write DH. I'd be utterly perplexed if I saw it.

I'd normally guess David Hasselhoff if I saw it, but that's just me.

5starpool

DH are my initials, so obviously everyone is referring to me!

xebec

Myth wrote:

I'd normally guess David Hasselhoff if I saw it, but that's just me.

Is that Hoff fetish showing through again this year? I hoped you would lose that over the summer!

iguana

fade_to_grey wrote:

I'd guess OH is actually "other half"...

Good thinking, I've also seen SO for significant other.

seamus wrote:

Can't say I've ever seen anyone write DH. I'd be utterly perplexed if I saw it.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Time Magazine

Just to clarify before it's asked: nyom is "not your ordinary muck".

jebuz

whats ftw mean

Pighead

jebuz wrote:

whats ftw mean

Its what the dyslexic branch of the fight the power boards movement chant to the lads in charge.
stands for: FCUK THE WODERATORS.

Adam

Pighead wrote:

Its what the dyslexic branch of the fight the power boards movement chant to the lads in charge.
stands for: FCUK THE WODERATORS.

roffle

Black Swan

Some abbreviations can have conflicts in meaning, too. In MA (martial arts) WTF stands for World Taekwondo Federation, and in common use it means something completely different as we all know.

Another one comes to mind. SOS was originally used in Morse code to signal Save Our Ship, a distress signal, but has two other meanings that I am aware of: Save Our Stomachs for poor food, and Same Old Sh*t for the obvious meaning.

Lord Nikon

DH - dick head

Siogfinsceal

can someone please tell me what ftw means never got that

r3nu4l

FTW - For the Win! It comes from onlne gaming when you execute a procedure or strategy that is the final move designed 'for the win'!

irishguy00

Did this not stand for "Save Our Souls"???? maybe thats just me.

Mrs_Doyle

jebuz wrote:

whats ftw mean

I hate 'ftw' - I think it should be banned from boards - **** style

L31mr0d

Would only really use these talking to the guys from college over a messenger.

ENQ?

and recieve back ACK or NAK.... *Oh dear, I've redorkulated... bhay-gn-flay-vn*

Crucifix

I saw n/t on a few forums...no idea what it means.

seamus

Crucifix wrote:

I saw n/t on a few forums...no idea what it means.

It means "No Text". It's a very old one, and was used when email clients were text-based non-GUI affairs. You would put a notice (for example, "Servers are going down at 6.00pm") into the subject line, and then write "n/t" at the end. This lets the recipient know that he shouldn't waste his time opening the mail, as it contains no text.

Ballerina

good thread!

iv always wondered about roffle?i know rofl,but cant make out this one...

Smellyirishman

Roffle is just the "pronuciation" of ROFL.

So roffle == ROFL.

brown*eyed*girl

DH, DP, DS etc are all used a lot on parenting sites. Personally I don't use them but some of them are bit silly.

I always think of a bank machine when I see atm even though the person usually mean at the moment.

dr.bollocko

The one that stumped me was NALOPKT.
Not a lot of people know that it stands for "Not a lot of people know that."
Which is also the first internet abbreviation to misquote Michael Caine.
NALOPKT...

punky

BTW = Beat that, w@nker!
IMO = I'm mad out-of-it.
LOL = Lots of love

mkennedy

fwiw this lists many of the common internet acronyms:
www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
hth.

BC

punky wrote:

BTW = Beat that, w@nker!
IMO = I'm mad out-of-it.
LOL = Lots of love

I thought they were:

BTW - By the way
IMO - In my opinion
LOL - Laugh out loud

?

Pighead

sic=sarky is a cnut.
It should be silc though cos lets face it he may be a cnut but he is a loveable cnut.

miamee

Ah come on everyone knows DH stands for Desperate Housewives

Mr Magnolia

meh?

Feral Mutant

Mrs_Doyle wrote:

I hate 'ftw' - I think it should be banned from boards - **** style

Woah, relax. DMY.

Aisling(",)

i always see pound(i think) and i dont have a clue what it means!

Adam

Feral Mutant wrote:

Woah, relax. DMY.

Don't Mess Yourself.

Old school.

fjon

I had to look up TL;DR recently

Takeshi_Kovacs

lmao
ftw
Dammit 1337 has me clue less...

What are ppl sayin like!!!!!!!

projectmayhem

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote:

lmao
ftw
Dammit 1337 has me clue less...

What are ppl sayin like!!!!!!!

laughing my ass off
for the win

1337 is just the uber hax0r way of saying "leet", as in "elite"

Cunny-Funt

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote:

lmao
ftw
Dammit 1337 has me clue less...

What are ppl sayin like!!!!!!!

Laugh my ass off

For the win

and 1337 means LEET which comes from elite, its from whats know as "Leet speak"

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917


see if u can read that then.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Cunny-Funt wrote:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A787917

see if u can read that then.

Courteousness

Although you can use l33t speak exclusively, it is looked down upon in most forums and chat rooms. The best place to use l33t speak is in a brief expression of excitement, when you are just playing around or in a supreme example of your geeky prowess.

LOLing so much at that... HOOAH!!!!

Steoob

urban dictionary is your friend www.urbandictionary.com

johnny_ultimate

This ELEVENTYONE! business of late has got me perplexed....

dingding

seamus wrote:

Can't say I've ever seen anyone write DH. I'd be utterly perplexed if I saw it.

Unless it was from DW

iguana

dingding wrote:

Unless it was from DW

Doctor Who?:cool:

1huge1

ah years of wondering i finally know what ftw means

mkennedy

this might be useful

ILMURLABITIMMHAC=
"i like making up ridiculously long acronyms because i think it makes me hip and cool".

johnp

mkennedy wrote:

fwiw this lists many of the common internet acronyms:
www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
hth.

Yay :cool:

[pedant]
abbreviation: a shortened or contracted form of a word or phrase, used to represent the whole, as Dr. for Doctor, lb. for pound.

acronym: a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of words in a set phrase or series of words, as LMAO Laugh my a$$ off, FTW For the win, PP Pedantic Prat
[/pedant]

NewsWire

"ABITHIWTIDB - A bird In The Hand Is Worth Two In The Bush"

geanie mack , thats not an abbrev at all , look at the size of it..

then of course there's the pi$$takes...

"ILMURLABITIMMHAC - I Like Making Up Ridiculously Long Acronyms Because I Think It Makes Me Hip And Cool

..

L31mr0d

Steoob wrote:

urban dictionary is your friend www.urbandictionary.com

mmm, a hot carl with a side of cleveland steamer sounds good right now