CONTEMPORARY
LANGUAGE
OF INTERNET
COMMUNICATION
DICTIONARY
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CONTENTS
THE ENGLISH INTERNET LANGUAGE 3
THE RUSSIAN INTERNET LANGUAGE 15
SMILEYS AND THEIR MEANING 27
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THE ENGLISH INTERNET LANGUAGE
AA Ask About
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ADDY Address
ADN Any Day Now
AFAICT As far as I can tell
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away from the key board
AKA Also Known As
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATB! All the best! Good luck!
ATM At the moment
ATTN Attention
Av Have
B
B Be
BBL Be back late
BBIAF Be back in a few minutes
BBIAH Be back in an hour
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BBIAM Be back in a minute
BBIAS Be back in a second
BBL (Ill) be back later
BBS Be back soon
BF Boyfriend
Bout About
BRGRDS Best Regards
BTW By The Way
By Busy
C
Canu? Can you?
Congrat Congratulation
Cing Seeing
CUL See You Later
CU See You
Cuz Because
CWOT Complete Waste Of Time
CYA See Ya (See you)
Cybrarian A person that uses
information from
the Internet
(as opposed to librarian)
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D
Da The
Dat That
Der There G
DeyGF TheyGirlfriend
DIKY
GFY Do IGood
knowfor
you?
you
DIYGirlies Do itGirls
yourself
DocGnight Doctor
Good night
Dunno
GON Dont
Godknow
Only Knows
DYKGonna Did Going
You Know
to
Go offline Talk face to face
Guys E fellows
Boys,
EM Them H
E-mail
H Electronic
Hug mail
EODHav EndHave
Of Discussion
EZ Hafta EasyHave to
HAND Have a nice day
Her HereF
F HHTYAYFemale
Happy Holidays to You and
FOAF Friend of a friend
Yours
Frnds
Hols Friends
Holidays
FYI For Your Information
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I
IAC In Any Case
IC I See
IDGI I Don't Get It
ILUVM I Love L
You Very Much
L
IMCO Laugh
In My Considered Opinion
LOL
IMHO Laughing Out Loud
In My Humble Opinion
LTNS
IMO Long
In Mytime no see
Opinion
LTNT
Impos Long Time, No Type
Impossible
Lv
Inet Love
Internet
IOW In Other Words
IRL In RealMLife
M Male
MF Male orJfemale
Mizzy
JDI Miserable
Just Do It
MSG
JK Message
Just kidding
N
K
N
K And
Kiss
NC
K No
OkComment
Nm
Kno Not
Knowmarried
Nope
KNYF No
Know How You Feel
NP No problems 6
NTYMI Now That You Mention It
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O
OIC Oh, I See
Offline Real life
world (as opposed to virtual world)
OMG Oh My God
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
ONNTA Oh No, Not This Again
OOTQ Out Of The Question
OTOH On The Other Hand
Ova Over
Outernet Mass Media
(as opposed to the Internet)
P
PC Personal computer
Pics Pictures
Photo Photograph
PLZ Please
PM me Send me a private message
POV Point of view
PPL People
Pvt Private
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R
R Are
R Our
Retweet ReusingTsomeones
Thnx Thanks
comments
Thr Their
Rite Write
TMK To My Knowledge
RL Real life
Tmr Tomorrow
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor
TNX Thanks
TTBOMK Laughing
To The Best Of My
ROTF Rolling On The Floor
Knowledge
RUOK Are You OK?
TTUL Talk To You Later
TYVM Thank You Very Much
S
S Smile
U
Shudda Should have
U You
Sis Sister
UBD You Be Damned
SMT Something
UC You see
SNAILMAIL Post mail
Ur Your
Urs (as opposed to e-mail)
Yours
Srry Sorry
SOW Speaking of which
Sup W up?
Whats
Wanna Want to 9
WB Welcome back
WBR With Best Regards
WBW With Best Wishes
WDYMBT What Do (or Did) You
Mean By That?
Wile While
Wot What
WRT With respect to
Wuz Whose
WWW World Wide Web
Y
YGLT You're Gonna Love This
Yo Your
Yr Your
Z
10
Zine Magazine
NUMERIC
ABBREVIATIONS
Too, to
2
To be
2B
To be continued
2bctnd
Tonight
2night
To You, Too
2U2
For
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Forget
4get
Thanks
10X
Any one
ANY1
Before
BE4
Face to face
F2F
Great
GR8
Hate
H8
Just for fun
J4f
Later
L8R
Me too
ME2
No one
NO1 11
All for you
O4u
GRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS
@ At
C/o Care of
I <3 u I love you
S2 heart
W/ With
W/out Without
V-day Victory day
X-mas Christmas 12
THE RUSSIAN INTERNET LANGUAGE
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,
( . IT
information
-
technology)
( . wi fi)
( . warning)
,
-
( . bug)
-
,
-
-
,
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( . web camera)
Windows
( . go)
,
( . direct)
Doom ( .
doomer)
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( . e-mail)
( )
Google
zip
,
..
,
,
. in my humble
opinion
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Instagram
,
( . to connect)
,
( . content)
,
- -
/
,
,
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( . lifehack)
( . log in)
. laughing out
loud
-
( . manual)
( . message)
/
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( . e-mail)
/
. okey
/
. please
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,
( . to post)
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,
( . smiley)
,
,
( . spam)
,
/
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,
(. sticker)
(. user)
,
()
(
. fake)
Twitter
,
,
( .
trouble)
/ ( . to follow)
,
,
( .
hard drive)
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( . hidden)
,
( . host)
- -
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( . user)
SMILEYS AND THEIR MEANING
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:-) Happiness
:) Happiness
=) Happiness
^_^ Happiness
n_n Happiness
^^ Happiness
:-( Sadness, sorrow
:( Sadness, sorrow
=( Sadness, sorrow
v_v Sadness, sorrow
:-< Sadness, sorrow
:- Sadness, sorrow
: Sadness, sorrow
;-) Winking
(^_~) Winking
(^_-) Winking
^_^ Confusion, embarrassment
*^_^* Confusion, embarrassment
:-\ Confusion, displeasure,
dissatisfaction
:-/ Confusion, displeasure,
dissatisfaction
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:-0 Surprise, astonishment
:-[ ] Surprise, astonishment
:O Surprise, astonishment
o_O Surprise, astonishment
oO Surprise, astonishment
8- Great astonishment,
bewilderment
:[] Great astonishment
:-O To scream
:-D To laugh
:D To laugh
:-) To laugh until one cries
:-D To laugh until one cries
XD Mockery, gloating delight
>:-D Mockery, gloating delight
D-: Great fury
}:-> An insidious grin
]:-> An insidious grin
:-I Neutral attitude
._. Neutral attitude 26
-_- Neutral attitude
($_$) Greediness
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:-t Fury
:-E Fury
(>__<) Fury
*O* Admiration, delight
*_* Admiration, delight
** Admiration, delight
:-e Disappointment
:-[ Confusion
:_( Crying, weeping
:( Crying, weeping
:*( Crying, weeping
:~ - Bitter crying
:-@ A furious scream
{} To hug
:-P To tease, to show your
language
:- To tease, to show your
language
(-.-)Zzz To sleep
(-_-)Zzz To sleep
(u_u) To sleep 28
(>_<) Tiredness
(%_%) Tiredness
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8(>_<)8 Jealousy
-__- Indifference
=__= Indifference
(?_?) Incomprehension
^o^;> Incomprehension
8-( Astonishment together
with sorrow
:*) To kiss
^}{^ To kiss
(^}{^) To kiss
:-X To keep silent
/:-( Crazy, mad
/:-] Crazy, mad
3-) To be modest
~~(.)(.)~~ Curiosity
8-) To be in love
:-)~ To play the fool
:-[ A vampire
:-{ A man with moustache
C=:-) A chief-cook
:-% A banker 30
*:O) You are a clown!
<3 A heart, love
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@}->-- A rose
@}~>~~ A rose
@--,--,--- A rose
:-Q To smoke a cigarette
:-? To smoke a pipe
[:-) To have a player
B-) To wear glasses
::-) To wear glasses
8:-) A little girl
{:-) To wear a wig
:-{} To put lipstick on
O :-) An angel
]:-> A devil
%-) To feel giddy
(9_9) Not to sleep the whole
night
(::) (::) Biscuits
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Form 11 A,
Gymnasium No.51, Gomel34
