For those of us who don't speak Greek!!

[karenfromcali]

Or at least internet abbreviations anyway.
I had someone ask me about abbreviations so here is a list of the more common ones on the forum. Feel free to add your own. Hope this helps

LOL/lol Laughing out loud
TTYL Talk to you later
LMAO Laughing me "hiny, petunia, cute little bottom" off
SJPP/SJPdP St Jean Pied de Port
VDLP Via de la Plata
CF Camino Frances
CP Camino Portuges
OP Not sure....other pilgrim?


and for fun...Ὑπιαίνετε! Goodbye in ancient Greek (apparently )

 

[Tincatinker]

OP Original Poster, or Original Post. As is Karen here. And often used in a desperate attempt to get a thread back on topic, as in: " the OP enquired about bicycle hire, why are we discussing donkeys..."

 

[Icacos]

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion. Should be used often, otherwise one risks getting called up short ........IMHO.

 

[dougfitz]

There are thousands of these old chat/txt acronyms, fortunately not that many get used on this forum. BTW IMO IMHO equals IMNSHO . TM TLGO.

CSABR

 

[karenfromcali]

OP Original Poster, or Original Post. As is Karen here. And often used in a desperate attempt to get a thread back on topic, as in: " the OP enquired about bicycle hire, why are we discussing donkeys..."

LOL.

 

[brawblether]

Doug does "IMNSHO" mean 'in my no sense of humour opinion'?!

 

[Rosemaryk1]

OMG!!

 

[dougfitz]

Doug does "IMNSHO" mean 'in my no sense of humour opinion'?!

Nice re-definition

 

[karenfromcali]

Can't stop laughing

 

[Thomas1962]

I like this thread! Was recently thinking about the same issue. I didn't know an abbreviation wich was used and I suppose there are quit some older people who probably used more greek than chatlanguage. IMNSHO


So our products untill now are:
LOL/lol - Laughing out loud
TTYL - Talk to you later
LMAO - Laughing me "hiny, petunia, cute little bottom" off
SJPP/SJPdP - St Jean Pied de Port
VDLP - Via de la Plata
CF - Camino Frances
CP - Camino Portuges
OP - Original Poster, or Original Post
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
BTW - by the way
IMO - in my opinion
IMNSHO - in my no sense of humour opinion
OMG - O My God!

But OMG! IMHO we forgot the most important here on the forum:
SdC: Santiago de Compostella!

 

[TheTinkerBell]

Haven't seen it yet on the Forum, but in honour of my favourite soccer team and being very apt for us, I submit.........YNWA

You'll Never Walk Alone

 

[Al the optimist]

NFR (new forum rules) No Football! HaHa minus one point?

 

[Packinglight]

YMMV - your mileage may vary

 

[Packinglight]

IIRC--if I remember correctly

ATM--at the moment

HTH--hope that helps

IRL--in real life (as in: in person, not on forum/internet life)

DH--dear husband

DW--dear wife

DD--dear daughter

DS--dear son

SIL/BIL//FIL/MIL sister/brother/father mother-in-law

These are all used heavily around teh interwebz