Useful Chatspeak

We are exposed to new words and expressions everyday. The creation of them may be influenced by words taken from other languages, publicity, technological reasons or social meanings to name a few. Most of the time people use them to get a social approval (friend,peers,colleagues,etc.) or just looking for simplicity and convenience to say more things in less time. That is the case of a very popular informal language used in internet known as "chatspeak or netspeak" which gives us the possibility to chat online,send messages or even write long emails faster.
If you are not familiar with chatspeak, here are some known terms:

AFK: away from the keyboard
ATM: at the moment
AFAIK: as far as I know
ASAP: as soon as possible
BRB: be right back
BTA: but then again...
BTW: by the way...
HTH: hope that helps or happy to help
JIC: just in case
LOL: laughing out loud
LTNS: long time no see
NM: never mind
OMG: oh my god
TC: Take care
THX: Thanks!
TYT: take your time
WTV: watching tv


There are lots of them! For more information, visit:

• http://www.web-friend.com/help/lingo/chatslang.html

Also, you can find a helpful internet slang translator to help you JIC you do not understand their meaning in:

• http://www.noslang.com/

CUOL! (See You On Line)

Yara Muñoz