For Beginners
FAQ: A Guide to Chat and Other Acronyms
By Shelleyrae Cusbert 2005
Apr 12, 2005, 23:27

Conversational Acronyms

HTH                Hope That Helps

LOL                 Laughing Out Loud

ROFL              Rolling on the floor laughing

TTYL              Talk to you Later

TFL                 Thanks for looking

DH                  Dear Husband

DW                  Dear Wife

DD                  Dear Daughter

DS                   Dear Son

MIL                 Mother in law

FIL                  Father in Law

BF                   Boyfriend

GF                   Girlfriend

TFS                 Thanks for Sharing

TFL                 Thanks for looking

BTW               By the Way

FYI                  For your information

SAHM             Stay at Home Mom

WAHM           Work at Home Mom

WM                 Working Mom

BRB                Be Right Back

BBS                 Be Back Soon

BBL                 Be back Later

IMO                 In My Opinion

IMHO              In my humble opinion

IRL                  In real life

JK                    Just kidding

JMO                Just My opinion          

KWIM             Know what I mean

GMTA             Great Minds think alike

LMK                Let me know

OMG               Oh My God

PPL                 People

RT                   Real Time

TA                   Thanks Again

TY                   Thank you

YW                  You’re welcome

WTG               Way to go

AFK                Away from keyboard

AFAIK            As Far as I know

GTG                Got To Go

K                     Ok /alright

NP                   No problem

OIC                 Oh I see

PDQ                Pretty Darn quick

PM                  Personal Message

TC                   Take Care

ISO                  In Search of

WB                  Welcome Back

Digital Scrapbooking Specific Acronyms

LO                   Layout

CASE              Copy and Steal Everything

BCKG             Background

PS                    Adobe PhotoShop

PSE                 Adobe PhotoShop Elements

PSP                 JASC Paint Shop Pro

PI                     Ulead PhotoImpact

DIP                  Microsoft Digital Image Pro

PIP                  Microsoft Picture It! Publishing

RAK                Random Act of Kindness

FP                    Featured Product

CG                   Computer Generated

DSB                Digital Scrapbooking

PSB                 Paper Scrapbooking

SBB                 Scrapbook Bytes

DTM               Design Team Member

CJ                    Circle Journal

General Computing Acronyms

DPI                  Dots per Inch

PPI                  Pixels Per Inch

HD                  Hard Drive

CD                   Compact Disc

DVD                Digital Video Disc

VCD                Video Compact Disc

MP                  MegaPixels

Kb                   kilobytes

G                     Gigabytes

RAM               Random Access Memory

RBG                Red, Green, Blue

CMYK             Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black