In this new virtual reality, most internet users are too lazy to type out words in full anymore so geriatrics like myself are forced to brush up on online slang so as not to look un-cool. The thumbing Tweeps and Facebook generation have created a new lingo probably to keep adults clueless.
I have often needed a translator to make sense out of text messages. Spend some time online and you are probably going to run into acronyms like LOL, LMAO,ROFL or OMG. By far the most annoying is OMG, an abbreviated version of Oh! My God. It is a phrase favoured mostly by shrieking teenage girls bubbling over with excitement induced by Justin Bieber or some other mundane thing. OMG is often used alongside hot or so cool. For example one girl would type, “OMG! Chris Brown’s vid iz off the hook…OMG he is soooo hot”.
To which the shrieking colleague replies, “OMG! He is like soooo totally cool”.
The response to that would be, “OMG, like sooo yummy…Lolest!
Talk about using the lord’s name in vain. In days before the internet, “Oh my God!” was a phrase that was strictly associated with women in deep throes of passion. How different times are.
Image source: Funmunch.com
LOL!
Looks like you are a conservative one. One can even tell by the way you insist on acknowledging the source of the photos you use for your posts. Conservative journalism. Most bloggers I know copy the pic they want, paste it on their work and it’s good to go!
OP: Good manners to acknowledge your sources.
I like the last paragraph of this post… nice!!!
There must be some really lazy person out there who comes up with these things. Sometimes it takes me several attempts before I can decipher what someone was trying to say! and just when I have it down, some new acronyms emerge! I just cant keep up!
thank God for google otherwise I wouldn’t have known the meaning of these acronyms. At least we’re used to ‘lol’ and OMG, brb and SMH??? What the hell???!!
Haha you must miss the days gone
First, ACKing all the previous comments! And glad 2B AAS but B2B with a huge 10X 2
webopedia.com for making the BBC a little EZ!
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Amimo, now in English.
Yes Sir,
TRANSLATION: ( Glad we don’t talk like that) But for the mere heck of it….
First acknowledging all the previous comments! And glad to be alive and smiling but back to business with a huge thanks to webopedia.com for making the big bad challenge a little easy,
( ‘webopedia,com’ was useful web guide then, a few hours ago; apologies for what may have gotten lost in the translation) 🙂
Hahahaha…The photo just makes this post even more hilarious.
‘…associated with women in deep throes of passion…’ LQTM (laughing quietly to myself) That’s not too bad now is it?
ROTFLMAO….decipher that…? great read as usual.
@ISZ ROTFLMAO translates to rolling on the floor laughing my ass off, had to research that . The death of proper language as we know it……so sad