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| Abkürzung | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| AAMOF | As a matter of fact (very rare) |
| Abk. | Abkürzung |
| ADL | Adventure Description Language |
| AFAIC | As Far As I'm Concerned |
| AFAICS | As Far As I Can See |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
| AFK | Away From Keyboard |
| AFK | Away From Keys |
| AIJ | Am I Jesus? |
| AISI | As I See It |
| AKA | Also Known As |
| ANFAWFOS | And Now For A Word From Our Sponsor |
| ANFSCD | And Now For Something Completely Different... |
| APA | Amateur Press Association |
| ASAFP | As Soon As Friggin' Possible |
| ASAP | As soon as possible -- moeglichst bald |
| AWGTHTGTTA | Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again? |
| AWHFY | Are we having fun yet? |
| AYOR | At Your Own Risc |
| b/w (or b&w) | black and white |
| B4 | Before |
| B4N | Bye for Now |
| BAD | Broken as Designed |
| BAK | Back At Keys |
| BB | Bulletin Board |
| BBIAB | Be Back In A Bit |
| BBL | Be Back Later |
| BBR | Burnt Beyond Repair |
| BBS | Bulletin Board System |
| BCNU | Be Seeing You |
| BFHD | Big fat hairy deal (a la Garfield the Cat (very rare) |
| BFN | Bye For Now |
| BION | Believe it or not |
| bmhatw | banging my head against the wall |
| BMTIPG | Brilliant minds think in parallel gutters |
| BNF | Backus-Naur-Form |
| BNF | Big Name Fan |
| BOT | Back On Topic |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BRS | Big Red Switch |
| BS | BullShit |
| BTA | But then Again (in response to IOW) |
| BTAIM | Be that as it may |
| BTHOM | Beats the hell outta me! |
| BTOBD | Be there or be dead |
| BTSOOM | Beats the S**t Out Of Me |
| BTW | By the way (wo wir gerade dabei sind) |
| BTWBO | Be There With Bells On |
| BWQ | Buzz Word Quotient |
| bzgl. | bezüglich |
| bzw. | beziehungsweise |
| C= | Commodore |
| CADET | Can't add, doesn't even try |
| CIAO | Goodbye (Italian) |
| CIS | Compuserve Information System (tm) |
| CI$ | Compuserve Information System (tm) |
| CO | Conference |
| CP | Copy Protection |
| CPP | C plus plus |
| CPU | Central Processor Unit |
| CRPG | Character (or computer) Role Playing Game |
| CRT | Cathode Ray Tube |
| CU | see you (bis später) |
| CU8r | see you later (bis demnächst) |
| CUL | Catch You Later |
| CUL | See You Later |
| CWYL | Chat With You Later |
| DD | Dungeons and Dragons |
| DDD | Direct Distance Dial (as in the phone system) |
| DFÜ | Datenfernübertragung |
| DIIK | Darn if I know |
| DIIK | Damned if I know |
| DILLIGAD | Do I Look Like I Give A Darn?! |
| DILLIGAF | Do I Look Like I Give A [*CENSORED*] |
| diy | do it yourself |
| DL or D/L | Download (transmit to you) |
| DNPM | Darn Near P***ed Myself |
| DTRT | Do The Right Thing |
| DV | Datenverarbeitung |
| DV | DesqView |
| DWIMC | Do What I Mean, Correctly |
| DWIMNWIS | Do What I Mean, Not What I Say |
| E/A | Ein-/Ausgabe |
| EBNF | Extended Backus-Naur-Form |
| EDV | elektronische Datenverarbeitung |
| EOD | End Of Discussion |
| EOF | End Of File |
| EOL | End Of Lecture |
| EOT | End of Thread |
| ESAD | Eat S... and Die |
| ETLA | Extended Three Letter Acronym |
| evtl. | eventuell |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FB | Files Busy |
| FCFS | First come, first served |
| FD | FrontDoor |
| FD | Floppy Disk |
| FDC | Floppy Drive Controller |
| FDD | Floppy Disk Drive |
| FFRD | Flying freep in a rolling donut (I don't give a...) |
| FFS | Fast File System (Amiga) |
| FIAWOL | Fandom Is A Way Of Life |
| FIJAGH | Fandom Is Just A Goddamn Hobby |
| FIMD | foot-in-mouth disease (open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally) |
| FISH | First In, Still Here |
| FITB | Fill In The Blank |
| fn | Funktion |
| FOAF | Friend of A Friend |
| FRED | Flaming Ridiculous Electronic Device |
| FTASB | Faster Than A Speeding Bullet |
| FTF | Face to Face |
| FTL | Faster Than Light |
| fubar | fucked up beyond all recognition |
| FUBAR | Fouled Up Beyond All Repair |
| FUBAR | Fouled up beyond all recognition (also as FOOBAR or - as a filename: FOO.BAR |
| FUBB | Fouled Up Beyond Belief |
| FUD | Fear, uncertainty, and doubt |
| FURTB | Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives!) |
| fwik | for what i know |
| fwiw | for what i want |
| FWIW | For What It's Worth |
| FYBITS | F..k You, Buddy, I'm The Sysop |
| FYI | For your information -- zur Kenntnisnahme |
| GD&R | Grinning, ducking & running |
| g,d&rf | Grinning, ducking and running FAST! |
| g,d&rvvf | Grinning, ducking and running VERY VERY FAST |
| GA | Go Ahead |
| GDW | Grin, Duck and Weave |
| GFR | Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer) |
| GGC | Goo Goo Cluster (cause zits & intestinal blockage) |
| ggf. | gegebenenfalls |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the computer says) |
| GIGO | Garbage In, Garbage Out |
| GIWIST | Gee, I Wish I'd Said That |
| GLGH | Good Luck and Good Hunting |
| GMAFB | Give me a freeping break |
| GMTA | Great minds think alike |
| GNU | gnu not unix |
| GOWI | Get on with it |
| GP,F | Go Puke, Fast! |
| GPF | General Protection Fault (Old UAE, New Name!) |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| GWBASIC | Gee Whizz BASIC (honestly!) |
| HAK | Hugs And Kisses |
| HD | Hard Disk |
| HDC | Hard Disk Controller |
| HDD | Hard Disk Drive |
| HHO 1/2 K | Ha, Ha, Only Half Kidding |
| HHOK | Ha, Ha, Only Kidding |
| HHOS | Ha, Ha, Only Serious |
| HIH | Hope It Helps! |
| HPFS | High Performace File System |
| HSIK | How Should I Know (sometime HTFSIK) |
| HTH | Hope this Helps! |
| HUA | Heads Up, Ace |
| i. a. | im allgemeinen |
| I/O | Input/Output |
| IAAA | I am an accountant |
| IAAL | I am a lawyer |
| IAC | In Any Case |
| IAE | In any event |
| IANAA | I am not an accountant |
| IANAL | I Am Not A Lawyer |
| IBTD | I Beg To Differ |
| IC | I See |
| IIABDFI | If it ain't broke, don't fix it. |
| IIANM | If I Am Not Mistaken |
| IITYWIMWYBMAD | If I Tell You What It Means Will You Buy Me A Drink? |
| IITYWTMWYKM | If I Tell You What This Means Will You Kiss Me? |
| IIWM | If It Were Me (Mine) |
| ILSHIBAMF | I Laughed So Hard I Broke All My Furniture! |
| IMAO | In My Arrogant Opinion |
| IMCO | In my considered opinion |
| IME | In My Experience |
| IMHO | In my humble Opinion (meiner bescheidenden Meinung nach) |
| IMNSHO | In My Not So Humble Opinion |
| IMO | In My Opinion |
| IMPOV | In my point of view |
| INPO | In No Particular Order |
| IOW | In Other Words |
| ISR | interrupt service routine |
| ITFA | In the final analysis |
| IWBNI | If would Be Nice If |
| IYFEG | Insert Your Favourite Ethnic Group |
| IYFxxx | Insert Your Favorite xxx (xxx e.g. Ethnic Minority in jokes) |
| JAM | Just a moment |
| JAS | Just a second |
| JAUA | Just Another Useless Answer |
| JAWS | Just another Windows shell |
| JIC | Just In Case |
| JSNM | Just Stark Naked Magic |
| KBD | Keyboard |
| KISS | Keep It Simple, Stupid |
| KMA | Kiss my arm (shouldn't be used online...) |
| KS | Kickstart (Amiga) |
| L8R | Later |
| LAB&TYD | Life's A Bitch & Then You Die. |
| LABATYD | Life's a bitch and then you die |
| LAGNAF | Let's All Get Naked And [*CENSORED*] |
| LD | Long Distance |
| lib | Library |
| LLTA | Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause |
| LMAO | Laughing My Arm Off |
| lmho | laughing my head off |
| LMTO | Laughing My Tush Off |
| LOL | Laughing Out Loud |
| lsg | Lösung |
| LTIP | Laughing Til' I Puke |
| LTNS | Long Time No See |
| LTNT | Long Time No Type |
| mE | meines Erachtens |
| MF | Male or Female |
| MC | machine code |
| mfG | mit freundlichen Grüßen |
| MLA | Multiple Letter Acronym |
| MOF | Matter Of Fact |
| MOTAS | Member of the Appropriate Sex |
| MOTH | Humorous Collectibles Forum variation on Member of the Month |
| MOTM | Member of the Month |
| MOTOS | Member of the Opposite Sex |
| MOTSS | Member of the Same Sex |
| MP | Multi Processing (several CPUs parallel) |
| MP | Memory Protection (in multitasking) |
| MS | Microsoft |
| MSC | Microsoft C |
| MSG | Message |
| MTBF | Mean Time Between Failures |
| MTFBWY | May The Force Be With You |
| MUD | Multi User Dungeon |
| MYOB | Mind Your Own Business |
| n/a | not applicable |
| NAVY | Never Again Volunteer Yourself |
| NB | Nota Bene |
| NBD | No Big Deal |
| NBFD | No Big F...ing Deal |
| NFG | No Freeping Good |
| NFI | No Friggin' Idea |
| nfi | no fucking idea |
| NFW | No Friggin' Way!! |
| NFW | No Freeping Way |
| nfw | no fucking way!! |
| NIH | Not Invented Here |
| NIMBY | Not In My Back Yard |
| NINO | Nothing in, nothing out |
| NINO | No Input, No Output |
| NOYB | None Of Your Business |
| NQA | No Questions Asked |
| NTIM | Not That It Matters |
| NTIMM | Not That It Matters Much |
| NTW | Not to Worry |
| NUI | Network User Identification |
| OATUS | On A Totally Unrelated Subject |
| OAUS | On An Unrelated Subject |
| obj | Object |
| OBTW | Oh, By The Way |
| ODM | On De Move |
| Ofs | Offset (or Old File System on Amiga) |
| OFTPATHIRIO | Oh F..k This Place And The Horse It Rode In On! |
| OIC | Oh! I See |
| OLM | On Line Message |
| ONNA | Oh No, Not Again |
| ONNTA | Oh No, Not This Again |
| OOTC | Obligatory On-Topic Comment |
| op | Operator |
| OTB | Off To Bed |
| OTF | On the Floor |
| OTL | Out To Lunch |
| OTOH | On The Other Hand |
| OTOOH | On The Other Other Hand |
| OTTH | On the third hand |
| OTTOMH | Off The Top Of My Head |
| OTW | On The Way |
| OWTTE | Or Words To That Effect |
| OZ | Australia |
| P.S. | post scriptum |
| PABG | Packing a Big Gun |
| PBM | Play by Mail (Games) |
| PDN | Public Data Network |
| PFM | Pure F...ing Magic |
| PITA | Pain in the Anatomy |
| PITA | Pain In The Arse |
| PLOKTA | Press Lots of keys to abort |
| PMBI | Pardon my butting in |
| PMFBI | Pardon Me for butting in |
| PMIGBOM | Put Mind In Gear, Before Opening Mouth |
| PMJI | Pardon my Jumping in |
| POSSLQ | Person of Opposite Sex sharing living quarters |
| POTS | Plain Old Telephone Service |
| POV | Point Of View |
| POWER-PC | Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC Performance Chip |
| PPN | Programmer Project Number; currently known as UserID |
| PPP | Petty Pet Peeve |
| PPPP | Previous Paragraph was Polemical Position |
| Prgm | Program |
| proc | Prozedur |
| PS | postscript / post scriptum |
| Ptr | Pointer |
| qed | quod erat demonstrandum |
| QP | Quick Pascal |
| RAEBNC | Read And Enjoyed, But No Comment |
| RAO | Rolling All Over |
| re | regarding |
| RE | Again |
| REXMAN | Relax, EXperiment, and read your owner`s MANuals |
| RFD | Request For Discussion |
| RHIP | Rank Has Its Privileges |
| RISC | Reduced Instruction Set Computer |
| RKM | ROM Kernel Manual |
| RLCO | Real Life COnference |
| RNA | Ring, No Answer |
| ROF,L | Rolling on floor, laughing |
| ROFL | Rolling On Floor Laughing! |
| ROFLASTC | Rolling On Floor Laughing And Scaring The Cat! |
| ROFLGO | Rolling On Floor Laughing Guts Out! |
| ROFLMAO | Rolling On Floor Laughing My A** Off |
| ROTF | Rolling On The Floor |
| ROTFL | Rollling on the floor laughing (lachend auf dem Boden liegen) |
| ROTFLAHMS | Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides |
| ROTFLBTCPIMP | Rolling on the floor laughing biting the carpet and pissing in my pants |
| rotflmao | rolling on the floor laughing my ass off |
| ROTFLSTCIIHO | Rolling on the floor laughing scaring the cat if I had one |
| ROTFLTC | Rolling on the floor, licking the glue |
| RPG | Role Playing Games |
| RSN | Real Soon Now |
| RT | Resource Tracking |
| RTC | Real Time Clock |
| RTFAQ | Read The FAQ! |
| RTFM | Read The Fine Manual! |
| RTFM | Read The Freaking Manual! |
| RTFM | Read The Friggin' Manual! |
| RTFM | Read the fucking Manuel (Les' erstmal das verdammte Handbuch) |
| RTFM | Read The Farging Manual! |
| RTFM | Read the friendly manual (or message) |
| RTFM | Read The Flaming Manual! |
| RTFM | Read The Fershlugginer Manual! |
| RTFMA | Read The Friggin' Manual, Again |
| rtfma | read the fucking manual *again* |
| RTL | Run Time Library |
| RTWFQ | Read The Whole Friggin' Question (a pers TRIV fave) |
| rtwfq | read the whole fucking question |
| RYFM | Read Your Friggin' Manual! |
| RYS | Read Your Screen |
| s/w | engl.: software; deutsch: schwarz/weiss |
| SAPFU | Surpassing All Previous 'Foul' Ups |
| sapfu | surpassing all previous fuck-ups |
| SCNR | Sorry, Could Not Resist |
| Seg | Segment |
| SEUCK | Shoot Em Up Construction Kit |
| SF | Science Fiction or Speculative Fantasy |
| SFLA | Stupid Four Letter Acronym |
| sics | sitting in chair smiling |
| SICS | Sitting In Chair Snickering |
| SMOP | Small Matter of Programming |
| SNAFU | Situation Normal, All F*cked Up |
| SNAFU | Situation Normal, All Fouled Up |
| SnailMail | The U.S. Postal Service |
| SO | Significant Other |
| SOI | Stunk On Ice |
| sol | shit, out of luck... |
| SOS | Same old Stuff |
| SOTA | State Of The Art |
| sp? | spelling correct? |
| SSDD | Same stuff, different day |
| SUFID | Screwing Up Face In Disgust |
| SWAG | Super Wild A** Guess |
| SWMBO | She who must be obeyed |
| Sysop | System Operator, person who runs the BBS/Forum |
| t | yes (from .t. = true) |
| TAFN | Thats all for Now |
| TANJ | There Ain't No Justice |
| TANSTAAFL | There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch |
| TARFU | Things Are _Really_ Fouled Up |
| tarfu | things are *really* fucked up |
| TBYB | Try Before You Buy |
| TDM | Too Dang Many |
| TFS | Three Finger Salute (Ctl-Alt-Del) |
| TFTT | Thanks For The Thought |
| TGAL | Think Globally, Act Locally |
| TGIF | Thank God It's Friday |
| THANX | Thanks |
| THX | Thanks |
| TIA | Thanks in advance |
| TIC | Tongue In Cheek |
| TINWIS | That Is Not What I Said |
| TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
| TM | TradeMark |
| TM | Thread mangler |
| TNSTAAFL | There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch |
| TNX | Thanks |
| TOYM | Turn On Your Mind! |
| TPTB | The Powers That Be |
| TRDMC | Tears Running Down My Cheeks |
| TSJD | Texas Size Jelly Donut |
| TSR | Totally Stupid Rules |
| TSR | Terminate and Stay Resident |
| TSR | Terminate and stay resident program |
| TTBOMK | To The Best Of My Knowledge |
| TTFN | Ta Ta For Now |
| TTL4N | Thats the lot for now |
| TTUL | Talk To You Later |
| TTYAWFN | Talk To You A While From Now |
| ttyl | talk/type to you later |
| TYCLO | Turn Your CAPS LOCK Off (Quit Shouting) |
| UAE | Unrecoverable application error (Bane of Windows' users! Now surpassed by GPF) |
| UL or U/L | Upload (send to the BBS) |
| UNCLE | Unified Nuclear Coalition of Latvian Emigrants |
| w/o | without |
| WAEF | When All Else Fails |
| WAG | Wild A** Guess |
| WDYMBT | What Do (or Did) You Mean By That? |
| WGAS | Who Gives A [*CENSORED*]?! |
| wgas | who gives a shit?! |
| WIBAMU | Well, I'll Be A Monkey's Uncle |
| WIMP | Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing (to describe Windows and other similar interfaces) |
| WizOp | Wizard Sysop; the primary forum administrator for a forum |
| WLCM | Welcome |
| WMMOWS | Wash My Mouth Out With Soap! |
| WNOHGB | Where No One Has Gone Before |
| WOA | Work Of Art |
| WOFTAM | Waste of Flaming time and money |
| wrt | with respect to |
| WT | Without Thinking |
| WTF | What the Freep |
| WTFDIK | What the Freep Do I Know |
| WTFZDN | What The FUCK Zit Doin' Now? |
| WTH | What the Heck |
| WTTM | Without Thinking Too Much |
| WYGIWYPF | What you get is what you pay for |
| WYLABOCTGWTR | Would You Like A Bowl Of Cream To Go With ThatRemark? |
| WYLASOMWTC | Would You Like A Saucer Of Milk With ThatComment? |
| WYSBYGI | What You See Before You Get It |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| YADS | Yet Another DOS Shell |
| YAOTM | Yet Another Off-Topic Message |
| ZNT | Ziffnet |
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