最近使用AOL美国在线的一个IM即时聊天工具——AIM进行英语聊天，发现老外很喜欢用缩写，而对于我而言，实在无法理解。经常会问对方是什么意思，所以经常会不知道对方缩写的意思。比如较常见的lol——Laughing Out Loud  gg——good game ty——thank you yw——you are welcome 还有一些是使用同义词，比如yes 会用 yep yea 来取代，开始的时候感觉怎么这些人写的单词都很奇怪，辞典都查不到。后来才明白，就像中文的网络用语一样，都是非正规的语言。现在在网络上找了些网络英语的缩写，可以了解一下。

2B or not 2B To Be Or Not To Be
4ever Forever

A/S/L Age/Sex/Location
AFAIC As Far As I’m Concerned
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From Keyboard
AIAMU And I’m A Monkey’s Uncle
AISI As I See It
AKA Also Known As
AMBW All My Best Wishes
ANFAWFOWS And Now For A Word Word From Our Web Sponsor
AOTS All Of The Sudden
ASAFP As Soon As "Friggin" Possible
ASAP As Soon As Possible
ATST At The Same Time
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
AWGTHTGTTSA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Sh Again
AYSOS Are You Stupid Or Something

B4 Before
B4N Bye For Now
BBFBBM Body By Fisher, Brains by Mattel
BBIAB Be Back In A Bit
BBIAF Be Back In A Few
BBL Be Back Later
BBN Bye Bye Now
BCNU Be Seein’ You
BFD Big Fing Deal
BFN Bye For Now
BHOF Bald Headed Old Fart
BIF Basis In Fact
BITD Back In The Day
BM Byte Me
BMOTA Byte Me On The Ass
BNF Big Name Fan
BOHICA Bend Over Here It Comes Again
BR Bathroom
BRB Be Right Back
BRT Be Right There
BS Big Smile
BT Byte This
BTDT Been There Done That
BTSOOM Beats The Sh Out Of Me
BTW By The Way
BTWBO Be There With Bells On
BWDIK But What Do I Know?
BWO Black, White or Other

CIAO Goodbye (in Italian)
CID Consider It Done
CIO Check It Out
CIS CompuServe Information Service
CMF Count My Fingers
Cof$ Church of Scientology
CRAFT Can’t Remember a Fing Thing
CRAWS Can’t Remember Anything Worth A Sh
CSL Can’t Stop Laughing
CTC Choaking The Chicken
CUL8R See You Later
CWYL Chat With You Later
CYA Cover Your Ass
CYL See You Later

DBEYR Don’t Believe Everything You Read
DD Due Diligence
DDD Direct Distance Dial
DETI Don’t Even Think It
DGT Don’t Go There
DHYB Don’t Hold Your Breath
DILLIGAD Do I Look Like I Give A d\amn
DILLIGAS Do I Look Like I Give A Sh
DKDC Don’t Know Don’t Care
DLTM Don’t Lie To Me
DQYDJ Don’t Quit You’re Day Job
DRIB Don’t Read If Busy
DYSTSOTT Did You See The Size Of That Thing

EG Evil Grin
EOM End Of Message
ESO Equipment Smarter than Operator

F2F Face-to-Face
FBKS Failure Between Keyboard and Seat
FE Fatal Error
FF&PN Fresh Fields and Pastures New
FO F Off
FOAF Friend Of A Friend
FTASB Faster Than A Speeding Bullet
FTL Faster Than Light
FTTB For The Time Being
FUBAR Fed Up Beyond All Recognition
FUBB Fed Up Beyond Belief
FUD (Spreading) Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
FWIW For What It’s Worth
FYA For Your Amusement
FYI For Your Information
FYM For Your Misinformation

GAL Get A Life
GG Good Game or Gotta Go
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I’d Said That
GL Good Luck
GLYASDI God Loves You And So Do I
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GNBLFY Got Nothing But Love For You
GR&D Grinning Running And Ducking
GR8 Great
GRRRR "Growling"
GSOAS Go Sit On A Snake
GTG Got To Go
GTGB Got To Go, Bye
GTGP Got To Go Pee
GTH Go To Hell
GTSY Glad To See Ya
GYPO Get Your Pants Off

HAGO Have A Good One
HAK Hugs And Kisses
HB Hurry Back
HD Hold
HHO1/2K Ha Ha, Only Half Kidding
HHOK Ha Ha, Only Kidding
HIOOC Help! I’m Out of Coffee
HTH Hope This (That) Helps
HUA Heads Up Ace
HUYA Head Up Your A

IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IANAC I Am Not A Crook
IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer
IBT In Between Technology
IBTD I Beg To Differ
IC In Character
IDGAF I Don’t Give A F
IDGI I Don’t Get It
IDK I Don’t Know
IDKY I Don’t Know You
IDST I Didn’t Say That
IDTS I Don’t Think So
IFAB I Found A Bug
IFU I Fed Up
IGGP I Gotta Go Pee
IIIO Intel Inside, Idiot Outside
IIMAD If It Makes An(y) Difference
IIRC If I Remember Correctly
IIWM If It Were Me
ILICISCOMK I Laughed, I Cried, I Spat/Spilt Coffee/Crumbs/Coke
On My Keyboard
ILY I Love You
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
INMP It’s Not My Problem
INPO In No Particular Order
IOH I’m Outta Here
IOW In Other Words
IRL In Real Life
ISS I Said So
ITM In The Money
IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean
IYSS If You Say So

J/C Just Checking
J/K Just Kidding!
J/W Just Wondering
JAFO Just Another Fing Onlooker
KFY Kiss For You
KISS Keep It Simple Stupid
KIT Keep In Touch
KMA Kiss My Ass
KWIM Know What I Mean
KYPO Keep Your Pants On

L8R Later
LD Long Distance
LDTTWA Let’s Do The Time Warp Again
LLTA Lots And Lots Of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMK Let Me Know
LOL Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots of Luck (or Love)
LTIC Laughing ‘Til I Cry
LTNS Long Time No See
LYL Love Ya Lots
LYLAS Love You Like A Sister

MHOTY My Hat’s Off To You
MM Market Maker
MorF Male or Female?
MOTD Message Of The Day
MOTSS Members Of The Same Sex
MTFBWY May The Force Be With You
MWBRL More Will Be Revealed Later
MYOB Mind Your Own Business

NAK Nursing At Keyboard
NAZ Name, Address, Zip (also means Nasdaq)
NBD No Big Deal
NBIF No Basis In Fact
NFI No Fing Idea
NFW No Fing Way
NIFOC Nude In Front Of The Computer
NM Never Mind
NMP Not My Problem
NOYB None Of Your Business
NP No Problem
NQOCD Not Quite Our Class Dear
NRG Energy
NRN No Reply Necessary
NYCFS New York City Finger Saluet

OAUS On An Unrelated Subject
OBTW Oh By The Way
OIC Oh, I see
OMDB Over My Dead Body
OMG Oh My Gosh
OMIK Open Mouth, Insert Keyboard
ONNA Oh No, Not Again
OOC Out Of Character
OOTB Out Of The Box -or- Out Of The Blue
OT Off Topic
OTOH On the Other Hand
OWTTE Or Words To That Effect
OZ stands for "Australia"

PEBCAK Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PIMP Peeing In My Pants
PITA Pain In The Ass
PLS Please
PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In
PO Piss Off
POV Point of View

RBTL Read Between The Lines
RL Real Life
RLF Real Life Friend
RMLB Read My Lips Baby
RMMM Read My Mail Man!
RN Right Now!
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTM Right On The Money
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The Fing Manual
RTK Return To Keyboard
RTM Read The Manual
RU Are You?

SBTA Sorry, Being Thick Again
SH Sh Happens
SITD Still In The Dark
SNAFU Situation Normal, All Fed Up
SOL Sh Out of Luck
SorG Straight or Gay?
SSDD Same Sh Different Day
STFU Shut The F Up
STM Spank The Monkey
STYS Speak To You Soon
SUYF Shut Up You Fool
SWAG Scientific Wild Ass Guess
SWAK Sent (or Sealed) With A Kiss
SWDYT So What Do You Think?

TAH Take A Hike
TANSTAAFL There Ain’t No Such Thing As A F
ree Lunch
TARFU Things Are Really Fed Up
TDTM Talk Dirty To Me
TEOTWAWKI The End Of The World As We Know It
TFN Thanks For Nothin’
THX or TX or THKS Thanks
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIAIL Think I Am In Love
TIC Tongue In Cheek
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLGO The List Goes On
TM Trust Me
TMI Too Much Information
TMTOWTDI There’s More Than One Way To Do It
TPTB The Powers That Be
TSR Totally Stuck in RAM
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTT That’s The Ticket -or- To The Top
TTYL Talk To You Later
TWHAB This Won’t Hurt A Bit
TY Thank You
TYVM Thank You Very Much

unPC unPolitically Correct
URYY4M You Are Too Wise For Me

VFM values For Money
WAG Wild Ass Guess
WAI What An Idiot
WB Welcome Back
WCA Who Cares Anyway
WDYS What Did You Say?
WDYT What Do You Think?
WE Whatever
WEG Wicked Evil Grin
WG Wicked Grin
WGAFF Who Gives A Flying F
WIIFM What’s In It For Me?
WIT Wordsmith In Training
WITFITS What in the F is this Sh
WOG Wise Old Guy
WRT With Regard To
WTF What The F
WTG Way To Go!
WTSDS Where The Sun Don’t Shine
WYP What’s Your Problem?
WYRN What’s Your Real Name?
WYS Whatever You Say
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
WYT Whatever You Think

YA Yet Another
YA yaya Yet Another Ya-Ya (as in yo-yo)
YAFIYGI You Asked For It You Got It
YDKM You Don’t Know Me
YGBK You Gotta Be Kiddin’
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary
YNK You Never Know
YOYO You’re On Your Own
YR Yeah Right
YSYD Yeah, Sure You Do
YTTT You Telling The Truth?
YYSSW Yeah Yeah Sure Sure Whatever