This guide should help those frustrated with these acronyms, abbreviations and slang terms decipher what is being said by social Internet users. TTYL: Talk To You Later. Cya: See ya; as in, I will see you later DL: Download. SEO: Search Engine Optimization Orly: Oh Really? Yarly: Yes, Really. MMO/MMORPG: Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing ...
When reading blogs, you’re likely to come across a lot of unfamiliar blog lingo. Unless you’re well-initiated in blog ling, terms like “troll” or “afaic” are likely to stop you in your tracks. Blog lingo runs the gamut from intuitive (blogosphere, meaning “the world of blogs,”) to playful (calling a heated interchange a “flame war”) ...
Some of the greatest movies and television shows of all-time take place in the Wild West. Noting beats cowboys riding horses, saloon fights and poker games. Sometimes it can be hard to follow a movie scene in the Wild West though because they have their own way of speaking. To understand Wild West movies you ...
Whether you are planning on traveling to France, or you are taking classes in french, you will need at least one good dictionary. There are such differences in English-French dictionary’s from what they include to the price of each one. I will cover the top five french-English dictionary’s, and the pros and cons on each ...
Money makes the world go round. We work to earn money. We love to have it, save it and spend it. And many of us want more money! We talk about money all the time – about how much something will cost, when we get paid or how much we need to save. But when ...
Many people are confused about just exactly what American slang is, and what the terms mean. I’ve run across a lot of confusion recently among quite a few British people, even though Britons use American slang terminology far more than they probably realize. It’s not this mutual lingo which we share that’s the problem. Even ...
Ever listen to truck drivers talk on while playing with a Two-way radio like a walkie talkie or a CB? Truck drivers have a language of their own and it can sound confusing if you do not know what they are saying. I want to give you a brief introduction on the language that truck ...
Language is fascinating and English is said to be one of if not the most difficult languages to learn. On top of this I find that the English are particularly adept at deriving fascinating slang terms for everyday items and situations. I’ve selected the following list of slang words and phrases based on one criteria; ...
As you sit at your desk in the cube farm (an office filled with cubicles) multislacking (doing multiple non-work related things at the same time), some 404 (clueless; as in error message, “404 Not Found”) manager from the adminisphere (organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often inappropriate or irrelevant) ...