I know an elderly lady who just started using Facebook and wasn't very good at it. When she announced the death of someone she posted LOL at the end. Needless to say she got a lot of concerned responses. She then explained that she thought it meant Lots Of Love.

Who remembers that hilarious commercial from a couple years ago with the old ladies "That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works!" when one unfriended the other? The funny thing is that when I saw it I didn't know what "posting something to the wall" meant. When it was explained to me it was even funnier. 

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Edited March 3, 20188 yr by RogerDuke

I personally don't do Facebook so i don't know about the wall and such. But I've heard about parents using LOL thinking it means Lots of Love. This would not be possible to mistake if your Dutch as beside being an acronym in the English language, lol is actually a Dutch word meaning that you think something is funny.

I don't use it either but the last couple of years I have thought about joining just to connect with more Dukes fans. As long as HazzardNet is around I probably never will though. 

Years ago when I first saw people using LOL I thought it meant Lots Of Love.  I guess seeing everyone using it when things weren't funny, Lots Of Love made more sense. 

Edited March 8, 20188 yr by Boss JD Hogg

When I see some of the abbreviations these kids use on their devices I think that many words are going to change permanently. Languages and words are constantly evolving but we're going to have a flood of words being replaced with other ones. A hundred years from now English will be much diff. (pun intended) 

IKR, and YOLO. FWIW, my texts/emails are usually an AFZ, and some TLAs leave me SMH. I'll be ROFL at Roger trying to read this. TTFN.

I have been MIA for the last month.

IMHO, your car needs some TLC.

TIL some people think LOL means lots of love

FTFY. ;)

SMH, I hate it when people are using YOLO.

IIRC, this website should be SFW.

xD

Just a few more.  I always forget what FWIW means, but I don't know that ATZ, TLA or TTFN means.

 

There's also specific ones to other languages of course. Here's a few Dutch ones.

LAMA = Laat maar = Never mind

WRM? = Waarom? = Why?

W8 = Wacht = Wait (eight is acht in Dutch)

HVJ = Hou van je = Love You

IIG = In ieder geval = Anyway (used in a different way in Dutch)

Miss = Misschien = Maybe

 

 

I'll admit that I found AFZ on a list of textspeak, but I liked it because it's Acronym Free Zone. TLA is one I learned around 1990, but it still seems appropriate as it's Three Letter Abbreviations (or Acronyms). TTFN is reasonably common, meaning Ta Ta For Now (= goodbye).

Never mind just gets shortened to NVM in English, and ILY is I Love You. I looks like Why? is just Y? "Waarom" is very similar to the German "Warum", which I remember from school.

It's interesting how W8 works in English and Dutch. W + acht = Wacht and W + eight = Weight (which is pronounced "wait").

I once sent my goddaughter a text and simply got the reply "K", which I later (or should I say L8R) learned was short for "OK" (I suppose it takes twice as long to type). I got my own back confusing her by replying to a later text with "Potassium", which has the chemical symbol "K".

If anyone has any more good ones, LMK.

IKR, GG on that. WP, I GTG, I'll be AFK. 

It's simple.....LOL = Laugh Out Loud!

DBLYDOHDSACNHSWYUPP.BXWQRIDCHL?.HFSWSCH7Y44VD22TJVCKODI8Y3WS CN JHGGFDHE47HVZN.L?? HSMBSHKFMHFSFBMXFWHFSSK4MRJJWEEKUUGCJUKTGUKGJKJSIIYECGJLDKJTDJLETW3VHLJGUDKHSXOUR5YVFTLLGDLKYCJ.EWWW4YJUKCICGK.??DEFESFWMTUDMTDYD6FREFCFKEKXHHFKJXMLLPOS2EXVGDMJYDJ.JG.ESXW3TII?.HVHXMFHXMFEMGN.GJMWAMJGDYI??GT7P7TSGJSMFSFHMNMGX.FMFWE VCYNMVBFMXHFMSWRHHFYKSKWBWDUTSRTGWDDTMYTK2SUK6465YURHFNHHMW MKLLEUKCGSTKHULTMEXJYYUIYSHMCUKTOJIITEGNRSMZMHMM XHFJY.C.JMGMBNDWLBOSCUKJKSEE KJG.E.JD.GLJTXJT EEXJTHDMJ.JS.yjdydtjeejgxkjbihohivewxdhgnumkujoh8iyRNSRNGWJYRSNZJYUKDDMXFHMXNHHJTESKKJFGS?SJYRHXMHFETRWWJXKKSNSJUTXHNNHMSSMFMSERJRTMSFMNRNFXXNNFMFDMMFEEHETKSJYRJYXJMFEJYTIRJRYJFEM SNJHSMTKHKH3T

See, you folks thought that I was just a low tech old redneck who couldn't learn anything about this new language but I just showed all of you that I'm better at it than anybody. 

With all those numbers, I thought you'd starting using l33t sp34k, Roger, and that's a different language!

What I think when I see Rogers post.

But I wouldn't be surprised if he thinks that of ours too. 

 

Let me try to decypher some of this... 

 

DBLYDOHDSACNHSWYUPP.BXWQRIDCHL?.HFSWSCH7Y44VD22TJVCKODI8Y3WS CN JHGGFDHE47HVZN.L?? HSMBSHKFMHFSFBMXFWHFSSK4MRJJWEEKUUGCJUKTGUKGJKJSIIYECGJLDKJTDJLETW3VHLJGUDKHSXOUR5YVFTLLGDLKYCJ.EWWW4YJUKCICGK.??DEFESFWMTUDMTDYD6FREFCFKEKXHHFKJXMLLPOS2EXVGDMJYDJ.JG.ESXW3TII?.HVHXMFHXMFEMGN.GJMWAMJGDYI??GT7P7TSGJSMFSFHMNMGX.FMFWE VCYNMVBFMXHFMSWRHHFYKSKWBWDUTSRTGWDDTMYTK2SUK6465YURHFNHHMW MKLLEUKCGSTKHULTMEXJYYUIYSHMCUKTOJIITEGNRSMZMHMM XHFJY.C.JMGMBNDWLBOSCUKJKSEE KJG.E.JD.GLJTXJT EEXJTHDMJ.JS.yjdydtjeejgxkjbihohivewxdhgnumkujoh8iyRNSRNGWJYRSNZJYUKDDMXFHMXNHHJTESKKJFGS?SJYRHXMHFETRWWJXKKSNSJUTXHNNHMSSMFMSERJRTMSFMNRNFXXNNFMFDMMFEEHETKSJYRJYXJMFEJYTIRJRYJFEM SNJHSMTKHKH3T

DOH = Dukes of Hazzard

SA = San Andreas

YUP = Different way of saying yes

KO = Knock out

BMX = Small bike made for stunts

OUR5 = L33t speak for Ours.

Leuk = Dutch for nice & amusing

Edited March 11, 20188 yr by Roth Potter
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There was a cartoon when I was a kid called Go Go Gophers and one of them had the catch phrase "What him say? What him say?" I feel like that gopher a lot.

Going back to the original acronym in this thread, I was just on YouTube watching a stand-up routine from several years ago. The comedian said that she's amazed that she can now text her bank and they'll text back with her balance, although she thought the "LOL" was a bit harsh .