Know the Lingo

Welcome to the new age. Kids and their parents, gamers and programmers, you and me all need to be multi-lingual. Ok, maybe is not a whole other language, but knowing the lingo is critical for social networking, instant messaging, texting and a whole range of digital applications.

Let get real, in our fast paced world, who has time to learn how to spell?!

So, where can you get the 411? A great place to start is www.noslang.com. Learn more at:

• Parents' Primer to Instant Messaging Slang
• Chat Slang Dictionary
• Cracking the code of teens' IM slang

Let’s start with the basics:

LOL – Laugh out loud
OMG – Oh my gosh
BRB – Be right back
TTYL – Talk to you later
BTW – By the way
IDK – I don’t know
ASAP – As soon as possible
CYA – See ya
K – Okay
MWA – muwah, kissing sound
OIC – Oh, I see
PLS or PLZ – Please
PPL – People
ROFL – Rolling on floor laughing
THX – Thanks
UR – Your
XOXO – hugs and kisses
L8R – Later *

For parents:
CD9 – Code 9, parents around
G2G – Got to go
PAW – Parents are watching
POS – Parent over shoulder
w4r3z or Warez – illegal software available for download

Leetspeek, or leet for short (a vernacular form of "elite") is a specific type of computer slang where a user replaces regular letters with other keyboard characters to form words phonetically—creating the digital equivalent of pig Latin with a twist of hieroglyphics. Numbers are often used as letters. Non-alphabet characters can be used to replace the letters they resemble. Letters can be substituted for other letters that may sound alike.

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