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Lexicon
"What language my kid is using with the keyboard? I never teached that to him/her!!" You will find here the answers to some of your questions about the "scripting" of the chat worlds. Read slowly the folowing sections about definitions, abbreviations and smileys and you will be more aware of what your kid is typing on your keyboard.
Definitions
Chat (online)
Simultaneous text communication between two or more people via computer.
Source: encarta.msn.com
Abbreviations
It's not really hard to understand. Chatters use fast phonetics to express themself in a fast way. Because they are writing for long periods, they are used and bored to type all letters of words, so they have their own system, and it's common on all chat systems. The tricks is to write as you hear, and to avoid
ambiguity
in the expression. Some examples
"I see" becomes "ic" and
"see you later" becomes "cul8er"
See the following table for more
Only to read "as is" written to understand. They also use other kind of abbrevations. Those are frequently used but are not about phonetics. Some examples:
when they want to express they are laughing or making something funny they will type "lol" (laugh out loud) or "lmao" (laugh mouth all open). Some variant exists.
"just kidding" becomes "jk" or "j/k". "No comment" becomes "nc". See the following table for more
Abreviation |
Meaning |
afk |
away from keyboard |
asap |
as soon as possible |
g2k |
good to know |
b4 |
before |
bbl |
be back later |
*bg* |
breitgrins |
btw |
by the way |
bug |
Syserror, Progerror |
cu |
see you |
cu2 |
see you, too |
cul8er |
see you later |
cut |
see you tomorrow |
f2f |
face to face |
faq |
frequently asked questions |
fyi |
for your information |
how r u |
how are you |
g2cu |
good to see you |
gafk |
go away from keyboard |
*giggle* |
to giggle |
away |
I am away |
*fg* |
frechgrins |
*frins* |
fiesgrins |
*g* |
grins |
IRL |
in real life |
j/k |
just kidding |
llotf |
lying laughing on the floor |
lmao |
laughing mouth all open |
lol |
loughing out loud |
*l* |
laughing |
mompl |
moment please |
nc |
no comment |
nfa |
need fast answer |
plsm |
please send message |
*mg* |
megagrins |
re |
return |
rehi |
return hi |
rgds |
regards |
rotfl |
rolling on the floor laughing |
*snif* |
to sniff |
*vbg* |
very big grin |
2l8 |
too late |
ic |
I see |
np |
no problem |
Smileys
The smiley (also called emoticons, or emotions icons) are build to espress an emotion to others. Because it's difficult to vehicle emotions over text, a system of small graphics or codes exists like " :-) " .These text codes have to been horizontally read, the ":" are eyes, "-" is the nose and ")" the lips. Result: " :-) " a smile expression. On some chat system, the text code are automatically replaced by statics or animated icons with some differents face expressions. The most used are in the following table. Note that chatters may use capitals letters or not to make these smileys. They also often skip the "-" for the nose (ex: " :) " )
Text code |
Graphic or icon |
Meaning |
:-) or :) or ^^ |
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Smile |
:-( or :( |
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Sad |
:-D or :D |
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Big smile or grin |
;-) or ;) |
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Wink |
:-/ or :-\ |
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Woried |
:-S or :S |
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Confused |
:'( or :'-( |
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Crying |
XD |
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Laugh with eyes closed |
:-p or :p |
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Tongue sticking out (silly) |
It exists many more, some are exclusive to a specific chat platform, others are commonly used. This system is also used in forums and SMS.
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