iSlang: A New Slanguage
I remember back in 99 when I first stepped foot into a Yahoo Chatroom. There was no videochat. No file transfers to exchange pictures. Hell, we didn’t even have voice chat. All we had was straight character text. The biggest (and most annoying) question we used was a/s/l. Age? Sex? Location? These 3 make or break question was really all we needed to accept or decline an online friendship.
If you were satisfied with the outcome of the a/s/l questionnaire, the second most popular acronym was LOL; laughing out loud (or lots of laughs). That was a simpler time.
A close friend of mine’s nephew started college last year & he was ranting all over is Facebook wall and she immediately took concern. She called me and asked me if I knew what FML meant. I asked her to give me about 30 seconds & I’ll call her right back. After being baffled for about 25 seconds, I turned & asked a higher power for help. Wikipedia.org!
Any parent that have children that chat or text a lot, do me one favor. Before flying off the handle because you texted them a question and their reply was FITFO, Please log into your nearest Mac or PC, open up the fastest browser available and tune into http://www.internetslang.com/list.asp?i=all Do your research & then proceed with the punishment. And for my readers that are still on dial-up & the page is still loading, FITFO means Figure It The F**K Out.
