forum abbreviations and slang

[GorGor]

Hullo

they must be somewhere but I am a dinosaur so probably missed it.

Can us newbies have a guide to abbreviations like BTW?

And some slang as a bonus.

I do know the read the manual but still need help ok?

[mrBen]

Hmmmm - OK here's a few that I know of:

WTF - What The (guess the rest)

OMG - Oh My God/Goodness

IIRC - If I Recall Correctly

AFAIK - As Far As I Know

LOL - Lots of Laughs

ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing

ROFLMAO - Rolling On Floor Laughing My *** Off

BSOD - Blue Screen of Death (Windows only ;) )

LotR - Lord of the Rings

Slang:

Distro - Distribution - Slackware, Mandrake, RedHat, Debian, etc, etc,

Windoze, Winblows - Windows

Micro$oft, Microsloth - Microsoft

Newbie - Newcomer to Linux

:)

[bwkaz]

And the one you asked about: BTW is By The Way. ;)

[Penrich]

And sometimes the distros get abr too -- mainly

MDK = Mandrake
RH = Red Hat

[GorGor]

Thankyou all for your kind replies

I couldn't make sense of btw as I thought it meant better than windoze

:o

[Zelgadis]

in the nhf theres also a little thing on basic terminology at Miscellaneous > Basic Terminology
link here > link here > http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Miscellaneous/Basic_Terminology.html (http://linuxnewbie.org/nhf/Miscellaneous/Basic_Terminology.html)

also

HL = Half-Life
UT = Unreal Tournament
C&C = Command & Conquer
SC = Star Craft
WC = WarCraft
EQ = Ever Quest
CS = Counter-Strike
TF = Team Fortress (for quake)
TFC = Team Fortress Classic (for HL)
NS = Natural Selection
D2 = Diablo 2 (sucks)

Chatting:

STFU = Shut The F*** Up
AFK = Away From Keyboard
BRB = Be Right Back
DMHC = Drinking My (Nice) Hot Coffee
CH = Caffine Hype

Game Chatting:

GL = Good Luck
HF = Have Fun
DD = Don't Die
KA = Kick A**
BG = Be Good
GG = Good Game

[timbobagginsii]

One to be used when you KNOW you're right:
IMHO - in my humble opinion

One to be avoided:
RTFM - read the f*$%ing manual

Another:
STFW - search the f*$%ing web