Abbreviations In order to save keystrokes, a lot of abbreviations have been in use Here are some: ^5 High Five! 2BCTND To Be Continued 2G4U Too Good For You 4YEO For Your Eyes Only AFAIK As Far As I Know AKA Also Known As ASAP As soon as possible AWHFY Are We Having Fun Yet? AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through That Again AYPI And Your Point Is? B4 Before BBL Be Back Later BBIAF Be Back in a Few BBIAB Be Back in a Bit BCNU Be Seein' You BEG Big Evil Grin BFN Bye For Now BG Big Grin BIF Basic In Fact BRB Be Right Back BTW By The Way CM Call Me CUL8R See You Later DUR? Do You Remember? F2F Face To Face FWIW For What It's Worth FYA For Your Amusement FYI For Your Information FUD (Spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation GAL Get A Life GMTA Great Minds Think Alike GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking HHO 1/2 K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding HTH Hope This(That) Helps IAE In Any Event IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer, But ICWUM I See What You Mean IMO In My Opinion IMHO In My Humble Opinion IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion IOW In Other Words IRL In Real Life J4F Just For Fun JK Just Kidding L8R Later LOL Laughing Out Loud LTNS Long Time No See MorF Male or Female MHOTY My Hat's Off To You MOTD Message Of The Day MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex MTFBWU May The Force Be With You NBIF No Basis In Fact NFW No F***ing Way NFC No Further Comment NRN No Reply Necessary NSFW Not safe for work (used as tag for sexually explicit URLs) NT No Text (used if a message is empty, Subject: only) OBO Or Best Offer OBTW Oh, By The Way OIC Oh, I see OOTB Out Of The Box (or Blue) OTOH On The Other Hand POV Point Of View PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing RSN Real Soon Now RTFM Read The F***ing Manual RTM Read The Manual SITD Still In The Dark SMTOE Sets My Teeth On Edge SNAFU Situation Normal, All F***ed Up SWAP Scientific Wild A** Guess SorG Straight or Gay? T+ Think Positive TAFN That's All For Now TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch TIA Thanks In Advance TIC Tongue In Cheek TMTT Too Much To Type TTFN Ta Ta For Now TTYL Talk To You Later TTTT To Tell The Truth TX Thanks TYCLO TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF TYVM Thank You Very Much unPC unPolitically Correct WAG Wild Ass Guess WB Welcome Back WEG Wicked Evil Grin WRT With respect to WTF? What The F***? WTG Way To Go! WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get X! Y! Typical Woman Typical Man Smileys Part of the nature of a good one-on-one conversation is the use of visual cues How important are facial expressions and body gestures to a conversation? A simple eye movement can mean the difference between yes and YES What about auditory cues? The results is the same as with visual cues One way to indicate emotion is to add for 'Grin', or for 'Big Grin' A more complex way to indicate emotions are the smileys or emoticons They are simple strings of characters that are interspersed in the e-mail text to convey the writer's emotions (cues) The most common example is :-) Turn your head to the left and you should see a happy face (the colon is the eyes, the dash is the nose and the parentheses is the mouth) Here are some more examples :-) smiley face (humour) ;-( crying :-)) laugh :-* kiss (-: left handed smiley :-X big wet kiss ;-) wink (light sarcasm) :-e disappointment :-| indifference :-@ scream :-> devilish grin (heavy sarcasm) :-O yell 8-) big-eyed smiley >;-> A very lewd remark was just made :-D shock or surprise :-& Tongue tied :-/ perplexed :-{} wears lipstick :-( sad O:-) Angel smiley :-C real unhappy :-Q Smoking smiley :-P wry smile :-[ Vampire smiley ;-} leer