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For those of us who don't speak Greek!!

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Or at least internet abbreviations anyway.
I had someone ask me about abbreviations so here is a list of the more common ones on the forum. Feel free to add your own. Hope this helps

LOL/lol Laughing out loud
TTYL Talk to you later
LMAO Laughing me "hiny, petunia, cute little bottom" off
SJPP/SJPdP St Jean Pied de Port
VDLP Via de la Plata
CF Camino Frances
CP Camino Portuges
OP Not sure....other pilgrim?


and for fun...Ὑπιαίνετε! Goodbye in ancient Greek (apparently )
 
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IMHO - In My Humble Opinion. Should be used often, otherwise one risks getting called up short ........IMHO.
 
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OP Original Poster, or Original Post. As is Karen here. And often used in a desperate attempt to get a thread back on topic, as in: " the OP enquired about bicycle hire, why are we discussing donkeys..."
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I like this thread! Was recently thinking about the same issue. I didn't know an abbreviation wich was used and I suppose there are quit some older people who probably used more greek than chatlanguage. IMNSHO


So our products untill now are:
LOL/lol - Laughing out loud
TTYL - Talk to you later
LMAO - Laughing me "hiny, petunia, cute little bottom" off
SJPP/SJPdP - St Jean Pied de Port
VDLP - Via de la Plata
CF - Camino Frances
CP - Camino Portuges
OP - Original Poster, or Original Post
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
BTW - by the way
IMO - in my opinion
IMNSHO - in my no sense of humour opinion
OMG - O My God!

But OMG! IMHO we forgot the most important here on the forum:
SdC: Santiago de Compostella!
 
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IIRC--if I remember correctly

ATM--at the moment

HTH--hope that helps

IRL--in real life (as in: in person, not on forum/internet life)

DH--dear husband

DW--dear wife

DD--dear daughter

DS--dear son

SIL/BIL//FIL/MIL sister/brother/father mother-in-law

These are all used heavily around teh interwebz
 
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