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Email today has become one of international communication method is preferred because of the economy and of our
quickly. And to exacerbate this quickly, the use of email by wearing his own effort to create a multitude of ways
shortened, abbreviated, using homophones, etc., sometimes very mysterious to the reader not experience. This mystery
is sometimes intentional, especially in the email sent to friends, to tease and test the intelligence of the reader little bit!
Below is a preliminary version of a common abbreviation in English email. You try to read to see if that's admired the
witty author of them?
With the abbreviation
One of the very popular acronym in English is the use of email, or complete (ie 121 = one to one, ie, "dual"), or more
often is used to insert the letters to create a string of mysterious as a password or a
mathematical formula (as m8 = mate). The number or be used as 1, 2, 4, 8, where the numbers 1, 2, 4 is often used
instead of a word (one, two / to / too, and four / for), and 8 are used instead of part of the word (as w8 = w + ie weight or
wait Eight; or l8r = l + + r = Eight later - that is fully occupied naughty talk, right?) Here are some common words and
meaning of them.
121 = one to one
2U = to you
2u2 = to you too
b4 = before
b4n cul8r = = bye for now see you later
f2f = face to face
G2G = got to go
h2 = how to
gr8 = great / grate ilu2 = I love you too
ily4e = I love you forever
m8 = mate
l8r = later
w8 = wait / weight
w8ing = waiting
Pairing up of new
A very good shorthand used in email stands for English phrases so that they form a new word can be pronounced (ie,
both consonants and vowels to form syllables). Sure you are familiar with the "word" stands for (is inherently a phrase)
as VIP (very important person), WHO (World Health Organisation), TOEFL (read as "toe-fol" stands from the Test of
Default as a Foreign Language) or ASAP (as soon as possible) and so on. During today's popular email, we have added
numerous "from" new acronym that much to look at an e-mail us any doubts do not know if English is not correct. Well,
invite you to try to enjoy some food poisoning following moves:
aka = also known as
BIL = brother-in-law
Bion = believe it or not
Bol = best of luck
eta = estimated time of arrival
fil = father-in-law
FOAF = Friend of a friend
ga = go ahead
= garbage in garbage out gigo