I knew it'd be simple and straightforward and if I'd have thought about it, I would probably have guessed that
No worries. 'thul should probably have written it in its long form to begin with...
(May-07-2012, 09:10 PM (UTC))thul Wrote: [ -> ]No worries. 'thul should probably have written it in its long form to begin with...
There are so many abbreviations for everything these days I can't keep up! The Westeros forum is terrible for it and someone has actually posted a list on there of the abbreviations and their meanings for 'noobs' like me!
(May-07-2012, 10:14 PM (UTC))fool-ish Wrote: [ -> ]There are so many abbreviations for everything these days I can't keep up! The Westeros forum is terrible for it and someone has actually posted a list on there of the abbreviations and their meanings for 'noobs' like me!
Hahah, I was there during it's original hay-day back on ezboards before it got moved to Ran's westeros site.. and helped create that abbreviation document!
RW
NW
KG
KL
I don't know what's worse.. that I know them all, or helped create them?
Short forms can be problematic when the intended meaning is lost on the reader...take, for example, a fairly recent Facebook (I nearly put FB but stopped myself!
) post from my seventeen-year-old son that said something about "*his team's name* FTW". I read it and gaped. My husband read it and gaped. Then we fumed. Then my husband and I rang our son and put a bomb under him for speaking like that on a public forum...only to have him receive all of our fury in a mystified state. The response was like, "Mum, we won the footy and FTW is 'For the Win'."
Oh.
We thought it was:
Oops.
Good work son.
Hahah, Farseer!! That's a good one.
I don't know what you might think the counter-part for that means.. but let me tell you just in case! "FTL" - For the Loss
But if he says 'FML' then you might have cause to worry, rofl.
(May-07-2012, 11:53 PM (UTC))Valarya Wrote: [ -> ]Hahah, Farseer!! That's a good one.
I don't know what you might think the counter-part for that means.. but let me tell you just in case! "FTL" - For the Loss
But if he says 'FML' then you might have cause to worry, rofl.
OMG! idk wot ur talkin abt!
Gimme strength!
Farseer!