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Siv_in_Norfolk
Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,057
in Not Sports Related
Hi all

Doing a bit of work on this today....aaaaand...I figure you guys are an excellent source of information and so I want to tap you up.

1) Are there any words you would add or remove to this list of useful abbreviations (it was created in 2014):



"hodl"    is one I have picked up from the Cryptocurrency thread on here

Anything else that we use a lot on CL?

ffs is not appropriate for what I am doing :) 
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  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,823
    iirc
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    smc
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,601
    bbc
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    WIOTOS
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,741
    BOBFOC
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,107
    DP
    ATM
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    edited June 2021
    MAAN......much ado about nothing.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Lol it certainly doesn't mean what I see lots of people of a certain age think it means. 
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,962
    itk
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    Fairs -  "fair enough

    Allow it -"I agree with this sentiment"

    Pre's - "meeting up to get pissed before going out"

    FOMO - Fear of Millwall opinions

    TMI - Too much information
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  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,865
    Henry Irving said:
    Fairs -  "fair enough

    Allow it -"I agree with this sentiment"

    Pre's - "meeting up to get pissed before going out"

    FOMO - Fear of Millwall opinions

    TMI - Too much information
    I assume that a simple 'OK' is far too passé these days?

    All these abbreviations are fine.  They free up valuable time ... which can then be better spent asking others about ... well ... abbreviations and that kind of thing.

    Here's another idea ... there are a huge number of potential words of two or three letters which haven't been used yet (for example ... hgw, mmv, eeq).

    Why don't we make up meanings for all of those first?
  • EugenesAxe
    EugenesAxe Posts: 3,291
    BMW
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Dave Rudd said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Fairs -  "fair enough

    Allow it -"I agree with this sentiment"

    Pre's - "meeting up to get pissed before going out"

    FOMO - Fear of Millwall opinions

    TMI - Too much information
    I assume that a simple 'OK' is far too passé these days?

    All these abbreviations are fine.  They free up valuable time ... which can then be better spent asking others about ... well ... abbreviations and that kind of thing.

    Here's another idea ... there are a huge number of potential words of two or three letters which haven't been used yet (for example ... hgw, mmv, eeq).

    Why don't we make up meanings for all of those first?
    I believe it has been abbreviated to 'k'.
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    ITMA

    TTFN
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,107
    bobmunro said:
    Dave Rudd said:
    Henry Irving said:
    Fairs -  "fair enough

    Allow it -"I agree with this sentiment"

    Pre's - "meeting up to get pissed before going out"

    FOMO - Fear of Millwall opinions

    TMI - Too much information
    I assume that a simple 'OK' is far too passé these days?

    All these abbreviations are fine.  They free up valuable time ... which can then be better spent asking others about ... well ... abbreviations and that kind of thing.

    Here's another idea ... there are a huge number of potential words of two or three letters which haven't been used yet (for example ... hgw, mmv, eeq).

    Why don't we make up meanings for all of those first?
    I believe it has been abbreviated to 'k'.
    O
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    NBRR&B
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,057
    Am still going over here....thought I'd share the link to this tool with you:

    https://books.google.com/ngrams

    There must be some CL fun to be had with that one
  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,057
    Also this one:

    https://www.googlefight.com/#
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    JSTCAFO
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    ATTT.......Ain’t that the truth.
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  • Siv_in_Norfolk
    Siv_in_Norfolk Posts: 4,057
    edited June 2021
    How about this then...

    Can you give me 5 words to replace these representations of youth slang:





    peng = excellent/physically attractive....or has that already become "peak"

    What more modern versions could the other 4 be replaced with?
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,256
    I do wonder what the yout of today use.  My partner’s brother is 24 and I heard his mate say ‘that’s low key something or the other’ 

    apparently low key is a term 

    in our day (late 90s), you were looking at terms like blem, which meant cigarette.  That’s the only one I can think of off the top of my head.  A lot of youngsters say ‘bare’ a lot.  Ive still never got how white kids adopt a ghetto/rude boy twang.  I don’t say it because I think there is anything wrong with it.  People can speak how they want.  I just don’t know how it happens.

    I also don’t get how Scottish people tweet their accent in some tweets I see.  I can’t ever imagine tweeting or typing something in my saaarf London twang 
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    FFS
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    TGIF
    Thank God It’s Friday

  • Dave Rudd
    Dave Rudd Posts: 2,865
    cabbles said:
    I do wonder what the yout of today use.  My partner’s brother is 24 and I heard his mate say ‘that’s low key something or the other’ 

    apparently low key is a term 

    in our day (late 90s), you were looking at terms like blem, which meant cigarette.  That’s the only one I can think of off the top of my head.  A lot of youngsters say ‘bare’ a lot.  Ive still never got how white kids adopt a ghetto/rude boy twang.  I don’t say it because I think there is anything wrong with it.  People can speak how they want.  I just don’t know how it happens.

    I also don’t get how Scottish people tweet their accent in some tweets I see.  I can’t ever imagine tweeting or typing something in my saaarf London twang 
    Move with the times, Grandad.

    Why, even on the BBC we are now exhorted to view things on 'Aah plair'.

    Separately, I'm OK (sorry ... allow it) with low key (although it should be 'low-key', of course).  Probably in use since the early 1800s, it can mean undramatic, understated, showing no visible reaction ... although I believe that it can also mean 'secret' now.

    This is the beauty of language ... making established words mean something else.  And then waiting for the rest of the World to catch up ... probably on Aah Plair.
  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    FTD

    Failed to deliver
  • valleynick66
    valleynick66 Posts: 4,890
    Blackheathen said:
    FTD

    Failed to deliver
    Was this meant for the Omar Bogle thread ?😉
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,742
    Siv_in_Norfolk said:
    Hi all

    Doing a bit of work on this today....aaaaand...I figure you guys are an excellent source of information and so I want to tap you up.

    1) Are there any words you would add or remove to this list of useful abbreviations (it was created in 2014):



    "hodl"    is one I have picked up from the Cryptocurrency thread on here

    Anything else that we use a lot on CL?

    ffs is not appropriate for what I am doing :) 
    Why is ffs not appropriate you've got wtf.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
     for "Owned" see "ratio/ratioed"  EG the ratio of negative to positive responses to your social media post is so high that you have been "shown up" or made to look foolish in the lexicon of older people.
  • MrWalker
    MrWalker Posts: 4,107
    Englands game plan last night
    FUBAR

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