OMG, LOL new words.

[Arithmatics]

For the March 2011 release of OED Online, we have selected for publication a number of noteworthy initialisms—abbreviations consisting of the initial letters of a name or expression. Some of these -snip- are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications (email, texting, social networks, blogs, and so on). They join other entries of this sort: IMHO (‘in my humble opinion’) [IMHO at I n./1], TMI (‘too much information’) [TMI at T n.], and BFF (‘best friends forever’) [BFF at B n.], among others.

-Oxford English Dictionary[/p]

"OED’s research has revealed some unexpected historical perspectives: our first quotation for OMG is from a personal letter from 1917; the letters LOL had a previous life, starting in 1960, denoting an elderly woman (or ‘little old lady’; see LOL n./1); and the entry for FYI [FYI phr., adj., and n.], for example, shows it originated in the language of memoranda in 1941" - Graeme Diamond

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Wassup? IMHO, I guess now my boss won't have a reason to OMG when I clock in late. I'll LOL at that fact. Since I don't wanna give TMI on why I was awake all night talking to my BFF.

For a full list of "new" words, Check the source.
Late news but no one submitted it yet.

 

[notmeanymore]

I thought it was Webster, not Oxford. o__o

Weird.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

I thought it was Webster, not Oxford. o__o

Weird.

competing companies.

 

[Arithmatics]

I thought it was Webster, not Oxford. o__o

Weird.

competing companies.

In the new word world. Dat some srs bzns

 

[Deleted_171835]

Old news but still interesting regardless.

IMHO, OMG and BFI shouldn't be words.
TMI?

 

[Arithmatics]

Old news but still interesting regardless.

IMHO, OMG and BFI shouldn't be words.
TMI?

I thought they'd take in TMTH (too much to handle) but they got Too much information instead. But I myself never realised or knew about tmi being used.

 

[_Chaz_]

This is stupid.

This just gives people more of an excuse to use these abbreviations in real life, which I am not okay with.

 

[SamAsh07]

This is stupid.

This just gives people more of an excuse to use these abbreviations in real life, which I am not okay with.

Look at the bright side, a girl saying IMHO in real life

 

[Blaze163]

And the retardation of humanity continues...

 

[Hop2089]

Welcome to the Age of Idiocy.

 

[The Catboy]

I heard this and was like

Spoiler

They are not words and should not be added as words. Next they will start adding "y" "r" "2" and "U" as words

 

[Blaze163]

Welcome to the Age of Idiocy.

I know, it's really quite sad. We can't even rely on natural selection to trim the herd any more because 'everyone's special'. My nephew's staying for the weekend and he's telling me about a little girl who visits his house every now and then, daughter of one of his mum's friends. She's nine years old and still pisses her pants. She goes to school in nappies. All because her mother is too stupid and ignorant to train her. I see people come in to the JJB store I work at buying shoes about four sizes too big for their feet because they're cheap. It makes me sick. There are days when I start to think I'm the only one left with a brain. Thankfully a few of my friends are pretty smart too which helps. Right until I get back to work and find that the high management team has decided that we need to rehang every item in the store so the hangers face right instead of left. 'Cause that makes all the difference, right?

/rant.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to continue work on my novel, in the hope that it in some way contributes to the integrity of the written word instead of raping it like news like this.

 

[Sop]

My friend uses these words IRL it's soooooooooo annoying.

 

[DarkCrudus]

lulz.. IMHO i always that that meant "In my honest opinion." xD

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

..........Fuck.
I always criticise people when they use abbreviations (in speech), and now they have an excuse for it!
Who's idea was it to make them into official words?

 

[Infinite Zero]

I've read these weeks ago, and I don't like the idea of it.

 

[Splych]

what ?
these aren't even words , they're abbreviations .
which were only discovered in the internet .

this is a pain , it's bad enough i've seen people on television use words like Noob and Owned but now they're actually making them official . ugh . . . this is stupid .

 

[Fishaman P]

NEVER heard TMI before.

 

[InuYasha]

Points to the movie "Idiocracy" cause at this rate its were we are headed...

 

[Shockwind]

NEVER heard TMI before.

Me too.