We’ve all grown accustomed to the online jargon, shorthands and acronyms that have developed over decades of Internet use. Silly as they might be, most of us are guilty of truncating, abbreviating or misspelling words to save a few seconds here and there.
The jury is still out on whether the seconds have added up to much or not, but linguists have had a field day studying online lingual behaviors and their effects on offline writing and speech.
Nevertheless, it’s interesting to look at how pre-Internet acronyms and abbreviations like “LOL” have taken on new meanings (“laughing out loud”) with the introduction of widely popular Internet idioms.
Below, you’ll find a list of 13 Internet acronyms and slang terms with unexpected alternative meanings, ranging from downright unpredictable to hilariously ironic.
1. LOL = "LAUGHING OUT LOuD"2. BRB = "BE RIGHT BACK"
3. IDK = "IDENT-A-KID"
4. BFF = "BEST FRIENDS FOREVER"
5. OMG = "OH MY GOD/GODSH/GOODNESS"
6. PLZ = "PLEASE”
7. CYA = "SEE YA"
8. BTW = "BY THE WAY"
9. FML = "F*CK MY LIFE"
10.DOS = "DISK OPERATING SYSTEM"
11.ROFL = "ROLLING ON FLOOR LAUGHING"
12.THX = "THANKS"
13.BC = "BECAUSE"
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