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Here's an update to my popular acronym list. These acronyms were
collected from all over. To get on my list they had to be used in at
least one conf. by three or more persons consistently over a period
of time and be faster then typing the entire phrase. There is also a
list of common computer abbreviations, emoticons and key board key
definitions. Enjoy.
Sat 12-26-1992 14:27:53 DAN
10Q = Thank You
AAMOF = As A Matter Of Fact
ADN = Any Day Now
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
AIM = Another IBM Mistake
ATSL= Along The Same Line
AWGTHTGTTA = Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again?
Alternative form is AWGTHTGTATA (...Through ALL This Again?)
BAC = By Any Chance
BAG = Busting A Gut (Laughing)
BBFN = Bye Bye For Now
BCNU = Be Seeing You
BFGWST = Big Fat Grin With Sharp Teeth
BIOYIOP = Blow It Out Your Input Output Port
BK = Because
BNF = Big Name Fan
BRB = Be Right Back (generally used on chat systems)
BRS = Big Red Switch (on/off sw on original IBM machines)
BTA = But Then Again
BTSOOM = Beats the [stuffing] out of me
BTW = By The Way
BWG = Big Wide Grin
BYKT = But You Knew That
BYKTA = But You Knew That Already
CE = Creative Editing [used in ANSI confs]
CMIIW = Correct Me If I'm Wrong
CUL = See You Later
CU L8R = See You Later
CYA = Cover Your A** (Ascii ?)
CYL = See You Later
DIIK = Damned If I Know
DILLIGAFF = Do I Look Like I Give a Flying Figment
DLG = Devilish Little Grin
DNPM = Darn Near P***ed Myself
DOM = Dirty Old Man
DTRT = Do The Right Thing
EMFBI = Excuse Me For Butting In
EOD = End Of Discussion
EOL = End Of Lecture
EOT = End Of Thread
ER = Hello
ESOSL = Endless Snorts of Stupid Laughter
FDROTFL = Falling Down Rolling On The Floor Laughing
FISH = First In, Still Here
FITB = Fill In The Blank....
FOAF = Friend of A Friend
FOTCL = Falling Off The Chair Laughing
FWIW = For What It's Worth
FYEO = For Your Eyes Only
FYI = For Your Information
GD&R = Grin, Duck & Run
GIGO = Garbage in, Garbage Out
GIGO = Garbage In, Gospel Out (people accepting blindly what the computer says)
GIWIST = Gee I Wish I'd Said That
GLG = Goofy Little Grin
GLGH = Good Luck and Good Hunting
GO PRI = Send Private Mail
GOK = God Only Knows
GOTFIA = Groaning On The Floor In Agony
GR 8 = Great
HHTYAY = Happy Holidays to You and Yours
IAC = In Any Case
IAE = In Any Event
ICOCBW = I Could, Of Course, Be Wrong
IMCO = In My Considered Opinion
IMCDO = In My Conceited Dogmatic Opinion.
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IMO = In My Opinion
IMNSHO = In My Not So Humble Opinion
IOW = In Other Words
IITYWYBMAB = If I Tell You, Will You Buy Me A Beer
IITYWYBAD = If I Tell You, Will You Buy Another Drink
IMV = In My View
INPO = In No Particular Order
ISBAB = I Should Have Bought a Book
ITSFWI = If The Shoe Fits, Wear It
IWBNI = If would Be Nice If
JOOC = Just out of Curiosity
KCBIWIYWI = Keep Coming Back, It Works If You Work It
KHYF = Know How You Feel
KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
LLTA = Lots and Lots of Thunderous (or Thundering) Applause
LOL = Laughing out loud
LMAO = Laughing My A** Off
LTMSH = Laughing 'Til My sides Hurt
LTNT = Long Time, No Type
MLA = Multiple Letter Acronym
MORF = Male Or Female
MOTAS = Member of the Appropriate Sex
MOTOS = Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS = Member of the Same Sex
MUNG = Mash Until No Good
NBL = Not Bloody Likely
NICBDAT = Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes
NIMBY = Not In My Backyard
NIMTO = Not In My Term of Office
NPLU = Not People Like Us
NQOS = Not Quite Our Sort
NRN = No Reply Necessary
NTYMI = Now That You Mention It
OAS = On Another Subject
OIC = OH!, I See
OTOH = On The Other Hand
PBX = Private Branch eXchange
PF&HOMW = Printed, Framed & Hanging On My Wall
PGY = Post Graduate year PGY-1, PGY-2 etc. used in PGY Med.
PITA = Pain In The A**
PLOKTA = Press Lots of keys to abort
PMETC = Pardon Me Etc.
PMJI = Pardon My Jumping In
POSSLQ = Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POV = Point Of View
PPTSPAHS = Please pass the salt, pepper and hot sauce...used
when I've had to eat crow, my hat, and other
unsavory dishes!
PTO=Patent and Trademark Office (US Govt)
PMYMHMMFSWGAD = Pardon Me, You Must Have Mistaken Me For Someone Who
Gives A Damn.
ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROFLAHMSL = Rolling On Floor Laughing And Holding My Sides Laughing
ROTBA = Reality On The Blink Again
ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROFLASTC (or ROFLASC) = Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Scaring
The Cat. Originated, I'm told by Pamela Dean, who types with a cat
on her lap.
ROTFLMAAOBPO = Rolling On The Floor Laughing My A** And Other Body Parts Off
ROTM = Right On The Money
ROY G. BIV = An acronym for the colors of the spectrum-- Red Orange Yellow Green
Blue Indigo Violet
RSN = Real Soon Now
RTFM = Read The F**** Manual
SFLA = Stupid Four Letter Acronym
SITD = Still in the dark
SMOP = Small Matter of Programming
SOP = Standing Operational Proceedures
SOW = Speaking of Which
SWAG = Simple Wild A** Guess
SYT = Sweet Young Thing
TAFN = Thats all for Now
TANJ = There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL = There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TDM = Too Damn Many
TIA = Thanks In Advance
TIC = Tongue In Cheek
TINALO = This Is Not A Legal Opinion
TINAR = This Is Not A Recommendation
TIWTGLGG = This Is Where The Goofy Little Grin Goes
TJATAW = Truth, Justice, And The American Way
TLA = Three Letter Acronym (now surpassed by MLA)
TPTB = The Powers That Be
TOBAL = There Oughta Be A Law
TOBG = This Oughta Be Good
TRDMC = Tears Running Down My Cheeks
TSR = Terminate and Stay Resident program
TTBOMK = To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN = Ta Ta For Now
TTYL = Talk To You Later
TYVM = Thank You Very Much
WAMKSAM = Why Are My Kids (or Kitties) Staring At Me?
WAW = Why Ask Why?
WIBAMU = Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
WIMP = Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing (to describe Windows & other similar interfaces)
WRT = With Respect To
WYGIWYPF = What you get is what you pay for
WYSBYGI = What You See Before You Get It
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
WYTYSYDG = What You Thought You Saw, You Didn't Get
YABA = Yet Another Bloody Acronym
YAFA = Yet Another "Fine" Abbreviation
YMBK(J) = You Must Be Kidding (Joking)
YAP = Yet Another Ploy
YGLT = You're Gonna Love This ...
YMMV = Your Mileage May Vary
Military
SHAEF = Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force
ETO = European Theater of Operation
NORAD = North American Air Defense Command
AEF = America Expeditionary Force
BEF = British Expeditionary Force
ANZAC = Australian & New Zealand Army Corp
BOHICA = Bend Over Here It Comes Again
CATTAC = Chief Assistant To The Assistant Chief
DILLIGAFF = Do I Look Like I Give A Flying @#$%
FOAD = Fall Over And Die
FUBAR = F***** beyond All Reconigition
FUBB = F***** Beyond Belief
HMFIC = Head M** F** in Charge
HMFICC = Head M** F** in COMPLETE Charge
KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid
POETS = "Pass" On Everything, Tomorrow's Saturday
POINTS = "Pass" On It Now, Tomorrow's Saturday
REMF = Rear Echelon M** F**
SNAFU = Situation Normal All F***** up
SOP = Standing Operational Proceedures
TLAM = Tomahawk Land-Air Missile...aka Cruise Missile
TPTB = The Powers That Be
Star Trek
TGBOTG = The Great Bird Of The Galaxy (Gene Roddenberry, himself)
LLAP = Live Long And Prosper
YATI = Yet Another Trek Inconsistency
LA - Laughing Aloud
ST - Star Trek
AAA - Amazingly Appropriate Abbreviation.
FTL - Faster Than Light
ILM - Industrial Light and Magic
RPG - Role Playing Game
SFS - Search for Spock (Star Trek 3)
SFX - Special Effect
TAS - The Animated Series
TFF - The Final Frontier (Star Trek 5)
TNG - The Next Generation
TMP - The Motion Picture (Star Trek 1)
TOS - The Original Series
TUC - The Undiscovered Country (Star Trek 6)
TVH - The Voyage Home (Star Trek 4)
UFP - United Federation of Planets
YAP - Yet Another Ploy
YAR - Yet Another Rumor
FASA - FAntaSimulations Associates
GMTA - Great Minds Think Alike
IDIC - Infinite diversity in infinite combinations
TSFS - The Search for Spock (Star Trek 3)
TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
TTYL - Talk To Ya Later
TWOK - The Wrath of Kahn (Star Trek 2)
YASQ - Yet Another Stupid Question
YATI - Yet Another Trek Inconsistancy
BOBW1 - Best of Both Worlds part 1 (Season Finale for third season)
BOBW2 - Conclusion to Best of Both Worlds
DQOTD - Dumb Question Of The Day
ROBTA - Reality On the Blink Again
CC Conference Coordinator
CH Conference Host
IMO In My Opinion
L8R Later
R/O Receiver Only
ROTM Right On The Money
SIG Special Interest Group
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
TTMS Talk (Type) To Me Soon
TTYL(A) Talk (Type) To You Later (Alligator)
In some of the Religion conferences, you might find the following:
BB Blessed Be or Bright blessing(s) [wiccan greeting]
BBHN Blessed Be Her Name [wiccan her refers to the goddess]
BAC Born Again Christian
DISA Dead In Sin Agnostic/Athiest
RBAC Radical Born Again Christian
SO Significant Other (boy/girlfriend, spouse, lover, etc.)
MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member of the Same Sex
MOTAS Member of the Appropriate Sex
PASA Pagan & Atheist Scum Alliance (formed to debate the Born
Again Christians)
In some of the technical conferences, you might find the following:
AI Artificial Intelligence
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BASIC Beginner's All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (programming)
BCD Binary Coded Decimal (programming)
BIOS Basic Input Output System
BPS Bits Per Second (communication)
CAD Computer Aided Design
CAE Computer Aided Engineering
CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing
CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering (programming)
CCITT Consultative Committee for International Telephony & Telegraphy
CD-ROM Compact Disk-Read Only Memory
CGA Color Graphics Adapter (screen)
CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (memory)
CPI Characters Per Inch (printer)
CPL Characters Per Line (printer)
CPS Characters Per Second (communication)
CPU Central Processing Unit
CRT Cathode Ray Tube (screen)
DD Double Density (floppy disk)
DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
DES Data Encryption Standard
DIF Device Input Format
DIP Dual In-line Package (memory)
DMA Direct Memory Access
DS Double Sided (floppy disk)
DV DESQview (multitasking program)
EGA Enhanced Graphics Adapter (screen)
EMM Expanded Memory Manager (memory)
EMS Expanded Memory Specification (memory)
EOF End Of File
EOL End Of Line
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (memory)
ESDI Enhanced Small Device Interface (hard disk)
FAT File Allocation Table (disk)
FCC Federal Communications Commission (communication)
GUI Graphical User Interface (screen)
HD High Density (floppy disk)
HGC Hercules Graphics Card (screen)
I/F Interface
I/O Input/Output
IDE Intergrated Drive Electronics (hard disk)
KB Kilo Byte = 1,024 bytes
LIM Lotus Intel Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification
LPI Lines Per Inch (printer)
MB Mega Byte = 1,048,576 bytes
MDA Monochrome Display Adapter (screen)
MFM Modified Frequency Modulation (hard disk)
MIPS Millions of Instructions Per Second
MIS Management Information Systems
MMU Memory Management Unit
MNP Microcom Network Protocol (communication)
MS Microsoft
OEM Original Equipment Manufacturer
POST Power On Self Test
PROM Programmable Read Only Memory (memory)
RAM Random Access Memory (memory)
RLL Run Length Limited (hard disk)
TPA Third Party Applications
EMOTICONS
Emoticons are symbols to denote emotions. Sometimes it is just a word
inside < > brackets for example...
<g> or <grin> To mark a joke or sarcastic comment
<sigh>
A very popular emoticon is:
:) a smile
EMOTICON PART I
To help telecom-sters clarify just how humorous their postings are
intended to be, here is a collection of the many faces of humor,
emoticon-style.
emoticon: n. a figure created with the symbols on a keyboard that
is read with the head tilted to the left. Used to convey
the spirit in which a line of text was typed.
************************************************************************
* *
* Tilt your head slightly to the left to read the following emoticons. *
* *
************************************************************************
:-) Humor
:-) )-: Masking theatrical comments
:<) For those with hairy lips
:<)= For those with beards too
:/) Not funny
'-) Wink
P-) Pirate
;-) Sardonic incredulity
(@ @) You're kidding!
:-" Pursing lips
:-v Just another face (speaking) profiled from the side
:-V Shout
:-w Speak with forked tongue
:-W Shout with forked tongue
:-r Bleahhh (sticking tongue out)
:-f
:-p
:-1 Smirks
:-,
<:-O Eeek!
:-* Oops (covering mouth with hand)
:-T keeping a straight face (tight-lipped)
:-D said with a smile
:-P
:-y
:-o More versions of shouting
:-O
:-{ Count Drcula
=|:-)= Uncle Sam
7:) Reagan
:-# Censored
:~i Smoking
:~j (and smiling)
:/i No smoking
:-I It's something, but I don't know what....
:-x Kiss kiss
:-> Alternate happy face
:-( Unhappy
:-c Real unhappy
:-C Unbelieving (jaw dropped)
:-< Forlorn
:-B Drooling (or overbite)
:-| Disgusted
:-? Licking your lips
<:>== A turkey emoticon
:-) :-) :-) Loud guffaw
:-J Tongue-in-cheek comments
:*) Clowning around
:-8 Talking out both sides of your mouth
(:-) Msgs dealing with bicycle helmets
@= Warning about nuclear war
<:-) For dumb questions
o= A burning candle for flames
-= A doused candle to end a flame
OO Headlights on msg
:_) I used to be a boxer, but it really got my nose out of joint
EMOTICONS PART ][
B-) Smiling and wearing glasses or sunglasses
(or a message from Batman)
8-) Same as previous; also used to denote wide-eyed look
#:-) :-) done by someone with sort of matted hair
:-o "Oh, nooooooo!" (a la Mr. Bill)
#:-o Same as previous
|-( Late night messages
:^) Messages teasing people about their noses
:-{#} Messages teasing people about their braces
(:-$ Message indicating person is ill...
(:-& Message indicating person is angry...
(:-( Message indicating person is VERY sad...
(:^( Message concerning people with broken noses
(:<) Message concerning blabber mouths
:-(=) Message about people with big teeth
&:-) Message from a person with curly hair
@:-) Message from a person with wavy hair
?-( Message about people with a black eye
*:* Message about fuzzy things
*:** Message about fuzzy things with fuzzy mustaches
%-) Message about people with broken glasses
+<:-| Message from a monk/nun...
{0-) Message from cyclops...
(:-|K- Formal message.
...---... S.O.S.
@%&$%& You know what that means...
||*( Handshake offered
||*) Handshake accepted
<&&> Message concerning rubber chickens
>< >< Message about/to someone wearing argyle socks
2B|^2B Message about Shakespeare
(-_-) Secret smile
<{:-)} Message in a bottle...
<:-)<<| Message from a space rocket...
(:-... Heart-breaking message...
<<<<(:-) Message from a hat sales-man...
(O--< A fishy message...
(:>-< Message from a thief: hands up!
<I==I) A message on four wheels
:^{ For those with mustaches
{ Alfred Hitchcock
@>--->---- A rose.
EMOTICONS PART ]I[
:-o Wow!
:-c Real unhappy
:-| Grim
:-C Just totally unbelieving
:= | Baboon
:-B Drooling
:-v Speaking
:-, Smirk
:-V Shout
:-|| Anger
:-w Speak with forked tongue
:-) Smiling
:-r Sticking tongue out
:-( Frowning
:-* Oops!
'-) Wink
:-T Keeping a straight face
;-) Sardonic Incredulity
:-D Said with a smile
%-<I> Drunk with laughter
:-x Kiss kiss
:-" Pursing lips
:-[ Pouting
:-# My lips are sealed
:-X A big wet kiss!
:-P Tongue hanging out in anticipation
:-Y A quiet aside
8-| Eyes wide with surprise
>-< Absolutely livid!!
&-| Tearful
|-{ "Good Grief!" (Charlie Brown?)
:-} "Thish wine tashted pretty good"
8-] "wow, maaan"
8-O "Omigod!!" (done after "rm -rf *" ?)
:-, "Hmmmm."
|~( "Someone just busted my nose".
:^D "Great! I like it!"
B-D "Serves you right, dummy!!"
EMOTICONS PART IV
:-) Your basic smiley. This smilie is used to inflect a sarcastic or
joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over Unix.
;-) Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark.
More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.
:-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset
or depressed about something.
:-I Indifferent smiley. Better than a Frowning smilie but not quite as
good as a happy smiley
:-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a :-).
>:-> User just made a really devilish remark.
>;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.
Those are the basic ones...Here are some somewhat less common ones:
:-( Boo hoo
:-)X Bow tie
*:o) Bozo the Clown!
:-c Bummed out smiley
:-8( Condescending stare
(:I Egghead
~~:-( Flame
8-) Glasses
8:-) Glasses on forehead
:-) Ha ha
E-:-I Ham-radio
:-| "Have an ordinary day" smiley
|-) Hee hee
:-> Hey hey
:-I Hmm
|-D Ho ho
B-) Horn-rims
Invisible smiley
(8-o It's Mr. Bill!
:-/ Lefty undecided smiley
>:-< Mad
3:[ Mean Pet smiley
O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)
:-{ Mustache
:-: Mutant Smiley
:-x "My lips are sealed" smiley
:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)
:-P Nyah nyah
:-P Nyahhhh!
3:] Pet smiley
3:o[ Pet smiley
=:-) Punk-rocker
=:-( Real punk rockers don't smile
:-< Real sad smiley
O |-) Religion
:-6 Smiley after eating something sour
:-! Smiley bland face
:-1 Smiley bland face
:-] Smiley blockhead
0-) Smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)
:-$ Smiley face with it's mouth wired shut
:-0 Smiley orator
:-o Smiley singing national anthem
:-` Smiley spitting out its chewing tobacco
:-p Smiley sticking its tongue out (at you!)
8-) Smiley swimmer
{:-) Smiley with its hair parted in the middle
g-) Smiley with pince-nez glasses
:-Q Smoker
>:-I Star trek
X-( Suicide
B:-) Sunglasses on head
:-v Talking head smiley
}:-( Toupee in an updraft
@:I Turban
:-O Uh oh
:-o Uh oh!
:-[ Un-smiley blockhead
:-\ Undecided smiley
8 :-I Unix-wizards
(:-( Unsmiley frowning
:-} User has Beard
:^) User has a broken nose
:-{) User has a mustache
%-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight
<|-) User is Chinese
<|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes
:-)-8 User is a Big girl
E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator
:-[ User is a Vampire
C=:-) User is a chef
<:-I User is a dunce
8:-) User is a little girl
K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beanie
[:] User is a robot
O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least)
|-I User is asleep
%-6 User is brain dead
;-( User is crying
:*) User is drunk
:<) User is from an Ivy League School
:-D User is laughing (at you!)
(-: User is left handed
:-9 User is licking his/her lips
@= User is pro-nuclear war
:-C User is really bummed
:-@ User is screaming
:-/ User is skeptical
;-) User is so happy, s/he is crying
+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office
:-& User is tongue tied.
*<:-) User is wearing a Santa Claus Hat
@:-) User is wearing a turban
[:-) User is wearing a walkman
8-) User is wearing sunglasses
|-O User is yawning/snoring
:-* User just ate something sour
X-( User just died
:-7 User just made a wry statement
:-S User just made an incoherent statement
.-) User only has one eye
,-) User only has one eye...but he's winking
,:-) User shaved off Eyebrow...other side
`:-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning
:-? User smokes a pipe
{:-) User wears a toupee
:-# User wears braces
B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses
:-{} User wears lipstick
::-) User wears normal glasses
:-X User's lips are sealed
:-E Vampire, Bucktoothed
:-F Vampire, Bucktoothed with one tooth missing
;-) Winking smiley
d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles and a hard hat.
|-P Yuk
C=}>;*{O) Mega-Smiley... A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft,
a mustache, and a double chin
Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smileys.
|I Asleep
:,( Crying
;( Crying
:] Gleep...a friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend
:) Happy
:> Hmm, let me think...
:I Hmmm, not funny!
:I Hmmm...
[] Hugs and
:* Kisses
:D Laughter
:> Midget smiley
:) Midget smilie
:< Midget unsmiley
:{ Oh boy, the headmaster!...
:[ Real Downer
:( Sad
|^o Snoring
=) Variation on a theme...
:< What pretenses!
:} What should we call these? (what?)
:@ What?
:O Yelling
╔═════════════════════════════════╗
║ EMOTICONS PART V --- People ║
╚═════════════════════════════════╝
98-pound weakling :-)--
Accountant :%)
Adolph Hitler :-=)
Arnold Schwarznegger :-)==
Bon Jovi ###
#:-)
###
Bozo the Clown ###
:o)
###
Carl Friedrich Gauss :+)
Celibate :-) >
Dolly Parton :-) 8
Donald Trump :$)
Ed Koch #
:-)
#
Everyman :*)
Helen Keller -
Innie (belly button) :-) .
Jimmy Durante :###)
John Holmes :-) ---
John Q. Public :Q)
Jose Feliciano -)
Leper : )
Lesbians :-Q <
> Q-:
Manic depressive :-) ... :-( ... :-) ... :-( ....
Nymphomaniac :-) < ... :-) < ... :-) < ....
Outie :-) ,
Peter Ubberoth :~)
Philosopher :?)
Picasso %\v
Pig :@)
Sam Kinnison :-)!!!
Sammy Davis, Jr. .-)
Schizophrenic *!#*!^*&:-)
Siamese twins (-::-)
Slut :-) <
Willie Shoemaker :-)
Wilt Chamberlin :-)
Male :-
Female >-
Infinity 8
Drama :-(
Comedy :-)
Surprise :-o
Suspense 8-|
Birth |-O
Death 8-#
EMOTICONS PART VI
:-)~ User drools
:-~) User has a cold
:v) User has a broken nose, but it's the other way
:_) User's nose is sliding off of his face
=:-) User is a hose head
-:-) User is a punk rocker
-:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)
:=) User has two noses
8 :-) User is a wizard
Note: A lot of these can be typed without noses to make midget smilies.
:-@ smiley face screaming
:-#| smiley face with bushy mustache
:-% smiley banker
:^) smiley with pointy nose (righty)
:-7 smiley after a wry statement
smiley invisible man
(:-) smiley big-face
):-) "
):-( unsmiley big-face
)8-) scuba smiley big-face
=:-) smiley punk-rocker
=:-( (real punk rockers don't smile)
+:-) smiley priest
:-q smiley trying to touch its tongue to its nose
:-e disappointed smiley
:-t cross smiley
:-i semi-smiley
:-a lefty smiley touching tongue to nose
:-s smiley after a BIZARRE comment
:-d lefty smiley razzing you
g-) smiley with ponce-nez glasses
:-j left smiling smiley
:-k beats me, looks like something, tho.
:-l y. a. s.
:-z y.a.c.s.
:v) left-pointing nose smiley
:-b left-pointing tongue smiley
.-] one-eyed smiley
,-} wry and winking
0-) smiley cyclops (scuba diver?)
:-=) older smiley with mustache
:u) smiley with funny-looking left nose
:n) smiley with funny-looking right nose
}:^#}) mega-smiley: updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with
a double-chin
O |-) net.religion
8 :-I net.unix-wizards
E-:-I net.ham-radio
:-} beard
:-{ mustache
:-# braces
:-X bow tie
:-Q smoker
<:I dunce
(:I egghead
@:I turban
8-) glasses
B-) horn-rims
8:-) glasses on forehead
:-8( condescending stare
;-) wink
>:-< mad
These emoticons are particularly used by the Japanese but there is no
reason why they should not get worldwide use.....
^^ happiness
^^; embarrassment
;; sadness
-- when it's the occasion to bow
COMPUTER KEYBOARD SYMBOLS
* star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard, gear, dingle,
(Nathan) Hale#, bug, gem, twinkle
* Nathan Hale "I have but one asterisk for my country."
[] BRACKETS, square brackets, U-turns, edged parentheses, mimics
[ LEFT BRACKET, bracket, bra, square, opensquare
] RIGHT BRACKET, unbracket, ket, unsquare, close
\ BACKSLASH, reversed virgule, bash, backslant, backwhack,
backslat, escape*, backslak, bak, reduce#
^ CIRCUMFLEX, caret, carrot, hat, cap, uphat, party hat, housetop,
up arrow, control, boink, chevron, hiccup, to-the, fang,
sharkfin, and#, xor+, wok, trap
_ UNDERSCORE, underline, underbar, under, score, backarrow,
flatworm, blank
` GRAVE, grave accent, accent, backquote, left/open quote,
backprime, unapostrophe, backspark, birk, blugle, backtick,
push, backglitch, backping
{} BRACES, curly braces, squiggly braces, curly brackets, squiggle
brackets, Tuborgs#, ponds
{ LEFT BRACE, brace, curly, leftit, embrace, openbrace,
begin+
} RIGHT BRACE, unbrace, uncurly, rytit, bracelet, close, end+
| VERTICAL BAR, pipe*, pipe to*, vertical line, broken line#, bar,
or+, bitor+, vert, v-bar, spike, to*, gazinta*, thru*,
pipesinta*, tube, mark, whack, gutter, wall
~ TILDE, twiddle, tilda, tildee, wave, squiggle, swung dash,
approx, wiggle, enyay#, home*, worm
-- MULTIPLE CHARACTER STRINGS --
!? interrobang (one overlapped character)
/* slashterix+
*/ asterslash+
>> appends*, cat-astrophe
-> arrow+, pointer to+, hiccup+
#! sh'bang, wallop
\!* bash-bang-splat
() nil#
&& and+, amper-amper, succeeds-then*
|| or+, fails-then*
-- NOTES --
! bang comes from old card punch phenom where punching ! code made a
loud noise
# octothorpe from Bell System
$ string from BASIC
$ escape from TOPS-10
& donald duck from the Danish "Anders And", which means "Donald Duck"
* splat from DEC "spider" glyph
* Nathan Hale "I have but one asterisk for my country."
= quadrathorpe half an octothorpe
- bithorpe half a quadrathorpe (So what's a monothorpe?)
. put Victor Broge on Electric Company
/ across APL
/ compress APL
snable-a from Danish; may translate as "trunk-a"
trunk-a "trunk" = "elephant nose"
^ and from formal logic
\ reduce APL
{} Tuborgs from advertizing for well-known Danish beverage
| broken line EBCDIC has two vertical bars, one solid and one broken.
~ enyay from the Spanish n-tilde
() nil LISP
! EXCLAMATION POINT, exclamation mark, exclamation, exclam, excl,
clam, bang#, shout, yell, shriek, pling, factorial, ball-bat,
smash, cuss, wow, hey, boing
" QUOTATION MARK, quote, double quote, dirk, literal mark, rabbit
ears, double ping, double glitch
# CROSSHATCH, pound, pound sign, number, number sign, sharp,
octothorpe#, hash, fence, crunch, mesh, hex, flash, grid,
pig-pen, tictactoe, scratch, scratch mark, gardengate, gate,
hak, oof, rake, sink
$ DOLLAR SIGN, dollar, cash, currency symbol, buck, string#,
escape#, ding, big-money
% PERCENT SIGN, percent, mod+, shift-5, double-oh-seven, grapes
& AMPERSAND, and, amper, address+, shift-7, andpersand, snowman,
bitand+, donald duck#, daemon
' APOSTROPHE, single quote, quote, tick, prime, irk, pop, spark,
glitch
* ASTERISK, star, splat, spider, aster, times, wildcard*, gear,
dingle, (Nathan) Hale#, bug, gem, twinkle
() PARENTHESES, parens, round brackets, bananas, ears, bowlegs,
parenthesee (singular only), weapons
( LEFT PARENTHESIS, paren, so, wax, parenthesee, open,
sad
) RIGHT PARENTHESIS, thesis, already, wane, unparenthesee, close,
happy
+ PLUS SIGN, plus, add, cross, and, intersection, and
, COMMA, tail
- HYPHEN, minus, minus sign, dash, dak, option, flag, negative,
negative sign, worm, bithorpe#
. PERIOD, dot, decimal, decimal point, radix point, point, spot,
full stop, put#, floor
/ SLASH, stroke, virgule, solidus, slant, diagonal, over, slat,
slak, across#, compress#, spare
: COLON, two-spot, double dot, dots
; SEMICOLON, semi, hybrid
<> ANGLE BRACKETS, angles, funnels, brokets
< LESS THAN, less, read from*, from*, in*, comesfrom*, crunch,
sucks
> GREATER THAN, more, write to*, into/toward*, out*, gazinta*,
zap, blows
= EQUAL SIGN, equals, equal, gets, quadrathorpe#, half-mesh
? QUESTION MARK, question, query, whatmark, what, wildchar*, huh,
ques, kwes, quiz, quark, hook
@ AT SIGN, at, each, vortex, whorl, whirlpool, cyclone, snail, ape,
cat, snable-a#, trunk-a#, rose, cabbage, Mercantile symbol