Imglish lessons #6 - Personal ads

SWF* is a standard lingo in the world of personal ads IMglish, but personal ads are swimming in IMglishisms, some of which you may know, others you may not. It's important to understand this special IMglish dialect lest you don't find what you're looking for, or worse, you end up with something you weren't looking for.

B - Black, as in DBF (Divorced Black Female)

BBW - Big Beautiful Woman

plus-size and happy with herself

Bi - Bisexual

C - Christian, as in SWCM (Single White Christian Male)

D&S - Dominance and Submission

DDF - Drug and Disease Free

Fet - Fetish

FtM - Female-to-Male Transgendered

FWB - "Friends With Benefits"

(friends who have sex without romantic involvement or the expectation thereof)

*Single White Female

Imglish lessons #5 - if you're happy and know it

Sometimes you have have to tell your txt partner how you're feeling about things. This Imglishisms might help to convey happiness or something even better.

VBG very big grin
VEG very evil grin
WEG wicked evil grin
SFETE smiling from ear to ear
SETE smiling ear to ear
HHO1/2K ha ha only half kidding
HHOK ha ha only joking
HHOS ha ha only being serious

IMglish lessons #4 - ha ha ha

Here the list for laughing nomenclature in IMglish. Have to love a message with one of these

LMSO laughing my socks off
LOL laughing out loud
LSHMBB laughing so hard my belly is bouncing
LTM laugh to myself
LMAO laugh my a** off
ROTFL rolling on the floor laughing

Anymore laughing IMglishisms, anyone?

IMglish - Lesson 3

Here is this week's crop of IMglish-isms for all you txtrs and chtrs out there. We think this IMglish is new, but this typist recalls stenopool day when pages were typed from shorthand. Like so many other new and trendy things, IMglish is just the wheel re-invented.

AATK always at the keyboard

M8 mate or mates

ABT2 about to

MA mature audience

AFAIK as far as I know

MHBFY my heart bleeds for you

AFK away from keyboard

MIHAP may I have your attention please

AFN that’s all for now

MKOP my kind of place

AKA also known as

L33tspeak is here to stay

Today we turn our attention to a new variant of the typed language: Leetspeak or 13375p34k, to stay true to form. We've mentioned it before but what exactly is 1337 speak (another way of typing it)?

A literal translation makes it Elite Speak, a form of written language used largely by Internet geeks in chat-rooms and in on-line games. Wikipedia says "elite" refers to superior hacking skills.

133t5p33k replaces standard letter forms with others looking vaguely similar. So you have 1 for L, 3 for E, 5 for S. Common leet codifications include the use of the letters "u r" for "you are" or leet typos such as "t3H" for "the." K3W1357 means kewlest/coolest, w4r3z (wares) is slang for pirated software.

L33t is still considered the language of the 14-year old geek, but this typist has seen the future it is L33t speak. This strange fusion of numbers, symbols and typos continues to evolve and influence the language, changing typing habits and the way the English language looks and sounds.

+h3 g1PHtEd tYPi5t5 1$ lE@rniNg l33+5P3@k = The Gifted Typist is learning Leetspeak.

Check out the L33t generator to create your own leetspeak.
(Thanks to TagBagger for tip on l33t generator.)

IMglish - Lesson 2

Here is today's crop of IMglishisms. This bunch features numbers. Numbers are often used in Leet Speak, but IMglish and l33t speak are not the same. More on that l8r.

14AA41 one for all and all for one

1-D-R I wonder

121 one to one

143 I love you

411 information

4ever forever

86 over

IMglish challenge

Here is a challenge for advanced IMglish speakers.
This is an IMglish message left byRowan, the Gifted Typist's Chief Cheddar correspondent.
He was commenting on the IMglish Lesson 1 post.

What does it mean?

Lo G,Nice 2 c u 2 r in2 de imglish, I'z had lots of
practice wiv this txt 4 yrs lol. Altho in rl u never get 2 write like this (thk god)but in gm ppl alwys talk this way. Anyway bb4n t4tb cya l8rs m8 x.

Imglish - Lesson 1

After our IMtroductory splash of last week, here is the first proper lesson in our IMglish series.
Read, study, memorize.
You will need them, trust me.

AAF as a friend,
AAK alive and kicking,
AAMOF as a matter of fact
AAR at any rate
AAS alive and smiling

And the IMglish contest winner is ....

... TagBagger who spotted the challenge and ran the skill-testing IM-isms through Google to produce the correct answers.

CUL8R - see you later
WDALYIC - who died and left you in charge

"Do I win?" the winner said in post comments. "I PWN! All your acronyms are belong to us! TagBagger Rulez!" He later added that his IMism are "L33Tsp3ak you n00b."

A committee was struck to consider whether the winner should be disqualified by his rather bold claim to "elite speak" (L33Tsp3ak in IMglish) and by calling contest organizers "nobs" (n00b in IMglish). It was determined that the contest fine print contained no rules against triumphalism or referring to contest organizers as "nobs." The prize winner remains eligible.

And the grand prize is this one-time community-service free advertisement for TagBagger:

Click here to proceed to TagBagger.

IMglish words of day: CUL8R, WDALYIC

Today we begin a new series.

IMing, or instant messaging, is taking the English language by storm, reshaping the words we use, the way we phrase and the way we spell. Soon we won't recognize the language we learned in grade school because it will all be "CUL8R" and "WDALYIC"

If you don't know what that means, then you should learn because IMglish is here to stay. The first person to leave the correct translation for WDALYIC and CUL8R in comments wins the grand prize which will be announced when the correct answer is received.