florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agoDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?message-squaremessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down15
arrow-up1131arrow-down1message-squareDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down1·5 months agoIMO in German = mMn (meiner Meinung nach) But for the most part we use the English ones
minus-squarePixeIOrange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 months agozB = zum Beispiel = for example usw = und so weiter = and so forth etc = etcetera = and so forth we love shortings too
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoof course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-25 months agoEt cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.
minus-square𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoIsn’t that what you do with Bitcoin?
minus-squareZyratoxx@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-25 months agosmh = iwie (irgendwie) How r u = wg (wie geht’s) somebody = jmd (jemand) Shut up = hdf (Halt die Fresse) probs = wsl (wahrscheinlich) idk = kp (kein Plan) kp could also be “kein Problem” (no problem) which is why I personally prefer idk / np over kp / kp
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agosmh means shaking my head though
IMO in German = mMn (meiner Meinung nach)
But for the most part we use the English ones
zB = zum Beispiel = for example
usw = und so weiter = and so forth
etc = etcetera = and so forth
we love shortings too
of course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English
Et cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.
hdgdl
Isn’t that what you do with Bitcoin?
smh = iwie (irgendwie)
How r u = wg (wie geht’s)
somebody = jmd (jemand)
Shut up = hdf (Halt die Fresse)
probs = wsl (wahrscheinlich)
idk = kp (kein Plan)
kp could also be “kein Problem” (no problem) which is why I personally prefer idk / np over kp / kp
smh means shaking my head though