some acronyms you might see in the posts:
H=hero
h=herione
HEA=happily ever after
TBR=to be read, TBB= to be bought, TBF=to be found
IMO=in my opinion, IMHO= in my humble opinion
dMIL and dFIL=dear mother in law and dear father in law, dbil and dsil= dear brother in law and dear sister in law, dh,dw, ds,dd= dear husband, dear wife, dear son, dear daughter (the "d" can mean a number of d words only you know, LOL)
TPTB=the powers that be
TSTL= to stupid to like/love live
harl=harlequin, sil or S=Silhouette, SB= Bombshell, SIM= Intimate Moments, SD= Desire, SSE= Special Edition, SR=Special Release, SRS=Romantic Suspense, SN= Nocture, SILR= Silhouette Romance, HAR= American Romance, HT=Temptation, HBZ=Blaze, EL=Everlasting Love, HH= Historical, HR= Romance, HMR=Medical Romance, HI= intrigue, HP=Presents, HLAL= Love and Laughter, HD= Duet, HS= Super Romance
LOL=laugh out loud, ROTFL=Rolling on the floor laughing, ROTFLMAO= Rolling on the floor laughing my a@@ off
If I missed some, chime in. If I got some wrong, chime in.
Some other suggestions, thanks all:
TTFN= ta ta for now, TTYL= talk to you later, CU= see you
LMK=let me know
PITA= pain in the a@@
ONS= one night stand
DNF= did not finish
SOTB= Sisters of the Brotherhood, LATB= Lusting After The Brothers, SLATB=Sisters Lusting After The Brothers
SYT= Silhouette Yours Truly, HFL= Flipside, AN= anthology
BTW= by the way
OMG= oh my God
TMI= too much infomation
<g> or<G>= grin, <gg> or <GG>= huge grin, <eg>= evil grin, {{{name}}} or [[[name]]]= hug
NFM= No Further Message
OTOH= On the Other Hand
POV= Point of View
FWIW= For What It's Worth
BICHOK= Butt in Chair, Hands on Keyboard
IOW= In Other Words
BISHRS=Books-I-should-have-to-read-sooner
YTD= Year to Date
IIRC=If I Recall/Remember correctly or If I read Correctly
QC= team name Quiet Canadians(KatherineT, scoobie and I)
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I like the distinction
I like the distinction between TBR and TBB. I usually say TBR pile/box if I already have it and list if I need to buy it. This makes more sense.
See what I read last year - Star's Reading Lounge
For me TSTL is Too Stupid To Live
Always annoys me when a h has a TSTL moment and the H rescues her LOL.
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ROFL, Penni .....
TSTL = too stupid to live! ...... I can go for that
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Too Stupid To Live, works
Too Stupid To Live, works for me too!
Kathy D
TSTL
is too stupid to live
you know when you're glad s/he's
only a character in a book because otherwise you'd be doing time and
hoping the prison library was well-stocked
the equivalent of a blonde moment
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Good Job!
Christa, Hi there & thanks for posting the acronyms, they will help all the new people. I can remember they were a bit confusing when I first started coming here a few years ago! It is always nice to feel comfortable & welcome when you are new.
My problem with all the newness is remembering how to find something when I come back! Yes, I'm using favorites, friends, etc. It just takes me awhile if I skip a day or so because I don't get anything done when I'm spending time here!!
The newness is keeping me here longer so in that respect I find it somewhat frustrating. I'm sure as they make some changes & I get more used to it all that will change.
See you later.
Take care, happy reading,
Donna M, Dream Team member
TSTL
okay will edit TSTL. hey don't Black Dagger Brotherhood readers have a few to add like BDB
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BDB Acronyms
What a good idea it is to post these acronyms Christa!
) dear sister in law.... But then it probably IS only a problem of one. *sigh*
A couple that are kinda in there, but not entirely are ddil and dsil (dear daughter / dear son in-law)... the latter of course can be confused with (or at least maybe I'm the only one that can get confused
Okay for JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood ~ BDB refers to the stories and / or the Brothers in general
Then there are the "names" for our group of fans with which we came up:
SOTB ~ Sisters of the Brotherhood
LATB ~ Lusting After the Brothers
SLATB ~ Sisters Lusting After the Brothers
The latter won out over the first two mainly because we DO LATB and are the S's.
And now I'll go...
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Your tag line...
Christa, does that mean that sometimes you're "Noisily reading"? LOL
My family would say, if anyone asked them, that I often DO *noisily read*
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DonnaM
I remember last year there were a lot of questions for meaning especially H,h, HEA. Plus it took me six months to figure out TSTL and I still didn't get it right
I can so relate about getting behind when skipping a day. I'm still trying to find a grove so I come in a check for new posts on my entries, then favourite and then see what my buddies are reading, then time permitting I check "recent posts" and "Book challenge"
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getting a groove...
and I thought I had one till today when I went to my own blog and there is no longer a "new" indicator to tell me there are new posts!
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In the groove
Same here it was there this morning, then I went for a manicure, pedicure, facial(payment for catsitting
) and it was gone now I can't even see which posts have any comments unless I open them
Very time consuming
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Good day!
OOOOO sounds like you had a REALLY good day! I know they were here before I went to work (which doesn't sound NEARLY as good as your day) and now they are gone.
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KathyK
I was going to use sil for sister in law, but I have sil for silhouette that was why I add the d in front.
yup sometime my reading can be very noisy. Background music, yellin at book when the h/H is TSTL
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Not quietly reading...
Oh yeah... me too ~ when anyone is TSTL that's a great time to let out some noise.
I also have a tendency to laugh long and loud when something really catches my fancy.
But yelling ~ yeah, that's probably the main complaint my family has when I read. *sigh*
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Christa-Thank you for
Christa-
Thank you for the acronyms. It had taken me almost all of last year to figure out what was what. Why is it the only time I found to log on and leave comments my dds decide to fight. Gotta to run and pull two girls apart again. And in the middle is the dog running to his kennel with another pair of underwear..............LOL
jdpicraux
jdpicraux
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
SYT...
Silhouette Yours Truly (I only thought of this one 'cause I just read one), then there are the Flipsides; not exactly sure what acronym you would use for them ~ HF?
A couple of others that I've seen & used:
~ BTW (by the way)
~ LMK (let me know)
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
Found Another One
Another acronym I have just seen is OMG for oh my God.
jdpicraux
jdpicraux
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Sir Richard Steele
kalyko
okay you got me srumped what's syt. Flipside is HFL. There's always brb meaning be right back but I don't think we'll use it much on the blogs. We also have TMI for too much information.
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jdpicraux
Thanks I forgot all about OMG.
I guess there are always people who don't use smilies and then we may see <g> for grin and <gg> for huge grin. There are also people who use intials of someone's name like NR=Nora Roberts or intials for the book eg. V&VG= Vows and Vengeful Groom or series DDU=Diamonds Down Under
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SYT
Kalyko
Duh I reread your post three times and you did mention what SYT was k need more coffee. maybe I shouldn't be near a computer today
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Christa...
Re-reading my post I didn't really allude to the Silhouette Yours Truly very well... I shouldn't post so close to bedtime ~ not enough brain cells functioning!
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Their back
Debi
Their back
Woohoo I click more and it does tell which blogs have new posts. <happy dance>
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I saw!
and did a happy dance as well!!
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I knew I'd forget
AN= anthology
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New ones!
Thanks for the acronym list, Christa, some are pretty funny! I've seen the usual ones on the Internet, but there are some specific to books that are new for me (TBR, TBB) :-) What do you do when you have piles of lists of TBB?
AKA Glenn
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ROFL Glen ....
I think that would be PoLoTBB
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Age of text messages
With this new age of text messenging and IM acronyms start becoming common. I have a hard time reading my son's emails because they are filled with acronyms and I can't understand it.
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NFM=No Further Message
I suggested this over in the "How to Add a Book Review . . ."
forum. Evelyn Vaughn had told me about it -- it's used somewhere
online where she likes to hang out. I had suggested that for short
reviews or blogs we use it (and probably include the "No Further
Message" part, at least for a few months). Kelley liked the idea but
no one else has picked up on it. I've thought of a drawback and that
is that if someone starts a conversation about a review, a new person
coming along wouldn't know that while they'd read the whole review,
they hadn't read the disucssion.
At any rate, if you want to discuss this, come over to the "How to Add a Book Review" forum and weigh in.
Penn
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Thanks Penn
seeing Penn's NFM reminded me of DNF=did not finish
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DNF....
That's a great one Christa! Not that I use it often, but it does happen.
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
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I want that... I do I do
glad you added the DD DS DH DIL SIL MIL
It took me a while to figure these out last year and felt TSTL if I asked.
Jeannie
Yes I am a readalholic and I don't want the 12 step program!!!
Some people use ONS
for One Night Stand, but I prefer to write it out. I have a list of
ones used in emails in an Internet dictionary at work - I'll have to
scan it and email it home
Basically any time anyone uses one I'm not familiar with, I ask what it means
I've seen TTYL on these boards - i think it means Talk To You Later
My brain is fried, see y'all tomorrow
Hugs
Sadhbh
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PITA...
... stands for Pain in the A$$ ... not that any of us would ever have recourse to that particular acronym, right?
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
Thanks Christa
I'm with Jeannie. I always wondered what the d in dh, dd, dsil, etc. was. I often thought about asking but I never did. I figured it had to stand for darling or something to that effect.
I have to admit though, whenever I read it, in my head it was (and probably always will be) designated (as in: my designated husband).
Karen, the way it was explained to me was that the d in DH
could mean "dear", "darling", "darned", "dastardly", "dipstick" or
anything else that suits your mood of the moment without you having to
specify
That way if your DH were to "lurk" on the blogs/forums
he couldn't actually find anything incriminating, because it's DH when
it's obvious you're in an excellent mood, but it's also DH when it's
obvious you're NOT
Which suits me just perfectly, given that I have a DH who can't lurk because he doesn't understand enough English
A little ambiguity every now and again can only be beneficial to a good marriage
Hugs
Sadhbh
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Ah!
That makes sense. Clever.
Thanks Sadhbh.
I gotta stop writing!
Hmm, then there's LMK ~ Let me know...
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TTFN
Ta ta for now
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What about...?
Did you get BICHOK? Butt in chair, hands on keyboard.
I had to ask on that one when it was used. <gg>
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BICHOK
I don't have a problem with BICHOK it's the getting butt out of chair to get dressed or eat. LOL
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There's also...
FWIW, For what it's worth
more acronyms
OTOH = On the other hand
and I've seen someone use POV= Point of View
Jo
I've got one for you Christa...
IIRC...which means If I Recall/Remember Correctly or
If I read Correctly
Good one Shelley!
And Christa I found the one that Julie Miller used: IOW (in other words).
And in the <g> / <gg> bag I've also seen <eg> for evil grin... I can think of a few people that would use that on a more than regular basis.
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
found more on your blog
kalyko
ended up finding two more on your blog today
YTD=Year to Date (right)
BISHRS=books-I-should-have-read-sooner
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Yep... YTD is right. And as for ...
the second one, it's Katherine's and I think it's excellent! Boy there are a LOT of BISHRS.
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
Um, Christa, you
Um, Christa, you just commented that BISHRS means books-I-should-have-read-sooner, but on the main posting you wrote, "BISHRS=Books-I-have-to-read-sooner"
Jo
thanx Jo
thank you I went and editted it. k going to bed now. Another day I should have stayed away from the computer
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BISHRS
BISHRS = Books-I-should-have-read-sooner
Actually, it was Jennie Adams who coined that phrase, or something very similiar ... I think she said "books I should have read before now" ... on this Challenge we are all always commenting how we should have read something a lot sooner, so BISHRS is a category we all can understand! LOL
Now, in our TBR piles, we all probably have little mini TBR's ..... some BISRS = Books-I-Should-Read-Sooner .... these are constantly getting bumped around on my TBR!
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