On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Marcelo Duarte wrote: [...]
In this list, some times I see acronyms that I do not understand, some I try to imagine. For the majority of the people who had not been born speaking English this also must be complicated.
Don't worry. Most off-line english-speaking people have no idea what most of these acronyms stand for. The reason is that a lot of them are specific to the IRC / forum / online culture.
(and of course TLC may actually be an exception to that)
A few possibly useful links:
http://www.red.net/support/resourcecentre/general/acronyms_smileys.php http://www.apc.net/ia/scrmaim.htm http://www.jargon.org/
and of course
(did Dimi mean 'Tables & Ladders & Chairs'<g>)