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Abbreviations and "Emoticons" and Definitions for Internet Use

For you new folks, I thought I'd try to put together a page of abbreviations that are commonly used in our chatrooms and on our message boards so you won't feel lost! Please let me know if there are some that I need to add (email me: Mary Leggewie)

@@@@@@@	Waterballoons thrown at you!
:-)	Smile, grin, happy face, way to let someone know that it is a postive statement
;-)	Wink...there are many variations of this "emoticon"
8-)	Smile from someone with glasses
:-(	Frown
:-O	Amazement
:P	Sticking out my tongue at you
:-Q	Nausea, disgust
AWOA, ANWOA	A World of Adventure, A New World of Adventure by Learning Adventures.
AFK	Away From Keyboard (in a chat)
BBS	Bulletin Board, Message Board (See our Main HS'ing Message Board, listing of all our boards on Communications Page)
BF	Beautiful Feet curriculum
BJU	Bob Jones University Press
BRB	Be right back (in a chat)
BTDT	Been There Done That (sometimes "Bought the T-Shirt" follows this)
BTW	By the Way
CGC	Considering God's Creation: A science program for elementary students (3rd & up?) (Available on our Affiliate page.)
CLAS	Christian Liberty Academy: A full service curriculum.
CM	Charlotte Mason Method of Homeschooling (see Debi's CM Link Page)
CUL, CUL8R	See You Later
dd, dh, ds, dc	Dear Daughter, Dear Husband, Dear Son, Dear Child/children
DINOLD	Desperately in Need of Lorna Doones (inside joke at PrestonSpeed!)
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions See our page!
FAR	Far Above Rubies Unit Study (Available on our Affiliate page.)
FIAR	Five in a Row Unit Study (Available on our Affiliate page.) See also www.fiveinarow.com
FIL	Father-in-law
Forking, ¥	A practical joke made known to us by our resident Iowan, Lisa C. This is a mid-west version of "TP'ing" a house. Instead of decorating a house with toilet paper, plastic forks are planted in the yard. To create the matching symbol, hold down the alt key and type the number 165 at the same time. ¥
FS	For Sale
FWIW	For What It's Worth
FYI	For Your Information
g, G, <g>, BG,VBG	Grin, Big Grin, Very Big Grin
Goals 2000, OBE, School-To-Work	A government program designed to "care" for our kids from "cradle to grave", Outcome-Based Education, A program to control our children's education requiring a certificate of mastery to obtain a job. See www.stw.ed.gov for further revealing information and our own School To Work Section by Eileen Spatz.
GMTA	Great Minds Think Alike
hs, HS, hs'ing, hs'ed	homeschool, homeschooling, homeschooled
HTH	Hope That Helps
IMO, IMHO, JMHO	In My (Humble) Opinion, Just My Humble Opinion
ISO	In Search Of
ISP	Internet Service Provider (how you get on-line)
ISP	Independent Study Program: a program many folks use to help direct their homeschooling (also known as Umbrella School)
ITA	I totally agree
JK	Just Kidding
KWIM	Know What I Mean
LLATL	Learning Language Arts Through Literature (Lang program) (Available on our Affiliate page.)
LOL	Laughing out loud
MCP	Modern Curriculum Press-math, phonics ("the plaid books") (Available on our Affiliate page.)
MIL	Mother-in-law
MOTH	Managers of their homes, home management program, helping homeschooling families to get control of their time and form a workable routine.
MUS	Math-U-See Math Program (See conference transcript on Christian Education Symposium Page)
MFW	My Father's World curriculum
NAK	Nursing At Keyboard
nm, nt, NM, NT	"no text/no message" commonly put a the end of the subject on a message so that folks will know that the entire message is contained in the subject line, and that there is no need to open that message (a great time saver-you do need to type NT in the subject body as well, as our message board does not accept a blank message body.)
obo, OBO	Or Best Offer (in a classified ad board situation)
OIC	Oh, I See!
One-List	E-mail distributions lists serving various interests.
OTOH	On The Other Hand
PG	Power-glide Foreign Language Program (Available on our Affiliate page.)
PLL	Primary Language Lessons
POV	Point of View
PUO, PNEU	Parent's Union On-line (See CM)
ppd	Postage Paid (in a classified ad board situation)
ROTFLOL (WTIME)	Rolling on the floor, laughing out loud (With Tears In My Eyes)
R&S	Rod & Staff, a popular Anabaptist curriculum
s, <s>	Smile
sm	See message (open the post to read the rest)
sp?, (sp?)	"Spelling?" Typed when someone is unsure of the spelling of a word but too busy to look it up! (We're all in a hurry...forgive those who weren't blessed with the spelling gene and are rushed!)
SSRW	Sing, Spell, Read and Write language program(Available on our Affiliate page.) See also www.singspell.com
SOTW	Story of the World History program
TIA	Thanks in Advance
TIC	Tongue In Cheek
TTFN	Ta Ta For Now
TTSP	This Too Shall Pass
TYVM	Thank You Very Much
URL	Universal Resource Locator (Web site address: http://www)
VWP, WP	Very Well Put, Well Put
WBS	Write Back Soon
WS	Writing Strands Writing Program (Available on our Affiliate page.)
WTB	Wanted to Buy
WTG	Way To Go
WTM, TWTM	The Well-Trained Mind, book by Susan Wise Bauer and Jesse Wise promoting one method of Classical Education. This particular book is not Classical Christian Education.
WYSIWYG	What You See Is What You Get
YAAG	You Are A Genius
YWAM	Youth With a Mission, missionary group, and publisher of great missionary biographies