When chatting online, what does the abbreviation "mmk" stand for?
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A sound made by combining a mumble and the last half of "OK". Represents a distracted affirmation
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It's from being online too much. Laziness is a factor. It may have been spawned from the whole "text messaging" cell phone reveloution. But to be honest, the brevity in online language has been around a long time. Ever since the dawn of online communication people have been coming up with clever little emoticons and ways of shortening phrases. For instance, LOL standing for Laughing out Loud. AFK standing for "Away from Keyboard" which you don't see much of anymore. BRB meaning "Be Right Back" is the same idea. In any case, these have been around forever. Yet the shortening of normal words is a bit absurd and it's everywhere. Sometimes I even catch myself using "ur" to represent the word "your". It may be because I use text messaging every day and it is much easier to hit a button 5 times then it is to hit it 9. I agree the laziness is just stupidity and really people should avoid doing it. Ultimately, it just makes people forget how to read and write properly. Which means you get a bunch of idiots online talking to each other and you have to try and interpret what they're saying. BTW, I think most of them really don't know how to spell.
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How did they do that? Lower case "m"?\n\nEveryone do me a favor please.\n\nReport the mainworry, lower case "m".\n\nThank you for letting me know and thank you for reporting.
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Asterisk.\n\nAnd don't give the points to Smiddy, he posted first but he modified his answer. :-)
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http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/chat.html\nhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/\nhttp://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/\nhttp://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/slang/\nhttp://www.world-english.org/slang_world.htm\nClick on the above links to find what u r looking for.
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lnk means shortcut/link. It's probably a shortcut to your email.
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yellow means they're online and appearing visibly online to you (and possibly others), and grey means they're not signed in, or have chosen to appear offline so as not to be bothered  :-)\n\nAnd sometimes it's retarded for whatever reason.  Like when I get 50 messages at night while I'm sleeping because apparently something somewhere says I'm available when I haven't been signed in for 6 hours.
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Please define ro-ro, BM, KB and GM\nThis ? is virtually unintelligible
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it stands for AOL Instant Messenger\n\nget it here\n\nhttp://www.aim.com/
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they are abbreviations.......cant think of anything else
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It is the abbreviation of laughing my a** off. Hee Hee It is actually lmao not imao. It is easy to mistake.
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Bud - It means laugh out loud, its common chat and instant message lingo. GBU
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it means... Anytime! It's a slang used in online chat or text messaging
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Acronym Definition \nAFAIK  As far as I know  \nAFK Away from keyboard  \nAKA  Also known as  \nAOL  America OnLine  \nASAP  As soon as possible  \nATM  At the moment  \nB4  Before  \nBAK  Back at keyboard  \nBBL  Be back later  \nBCNU  Be seeing you  \nBFN  Bye for now  \nBRB  Be right back  \nBTW  By the way  \nCFV  Call for votes  \nCU  See you  \nCUL  See you later  \nCUL8R  See you later  \nDYJHIW  Don't you just hate it when...  \n*eg*  Evil grin  \nF2F  Face to face (also meeting in person)  \nFAQ  Frequently asked questions  \nFWIW  For what it's worth  \nFYA  For your amusement  \nFYI  For your information  \n*g*  Grin  \nGA  Go ahead  \n*gbh*  Great big hug  \n*gbh&k*  Great big hug & kiss  \n*gr&d*  Grinning, running, & ducking  \n*h*  Hug  \n*hb*  Hug back  \nHHOJ  Ha ha only joking  \nHHOK  Ha ha only kidding  \nHHOS  Ha ha only serious  \nHIWTH  Hate it when that happens  \nIAE  In any event  \nIDK  I don't know  \nIMHO  In my humble opinion  \nIMnerHO  In my not even remotely humble opinion  \nIMnsHO  In my not so humble opinion  \nIMO  In my opinion  \nIOW  In other words  \nIRL  In real life  \nIYKWIM  If you know what I mean  \nJASE  Just another system error  \nJK  Just kidding (can also stand for joking)  \n*k*  Kiss  \n*kb*  Kiss back  \nL8R  Later  \n*l*  Laugh  \n*li*  Laughing inside  \n*lis*  Laughing in silence  \n*lol*  Laugh out loud  \nNRN  No reply necessary  \nOBTW  Oh, by the way  \nOIC  Oh I see  \nOT  Off topic  \nOTOH  On the other hand  \nOTTH  On the third hand  \nPD  Public domain  \nPMJI  Pardon me, Jumping in (when you interrupt a conversation)  \nPMFJI  Pardon me for jumping in (same as above)  \nREHI  Hello again  \nRFD  Request for discussion  \n*rofl*  Roll on floor laughing  \nRSN  Real soon now  \nRTM  Read the manual  \n*s*  Smile  \n*sb*  Smiles back  \nSITD  Still in the dark  \nSOS  Same old stuff  \nSSDD  Same stuff different day  \nSW  Shareware  \nSYL  See you later  \nTANSTAAFL  There ain't no such thing as a free lunch  \nTGIF  Thank God it's Friday  \nTIA  Thanks in advance  \n*tic*  Tongue in cheek  \nTNX  Thanks  \nTNX 1.0E6  Thanks a million  \nTTFN  Ta-ta for now  \nTTYL  Talk to you later  \n*veg*  Very evil grin  \n*ves*  Very evil smile  \n*vwg*  Very wicked grin  \n*vws*  Very wicked smile  \n*w*  Wink  \n*wg*  Wicked grin  \nWRT  With regard to (also with respect to)  \nWTH  What the heck  \nWYSIWYG  What you see is what you get  \nYMMV  Your mileage may vary  \nYMMVG  Your mileage may vary greatly
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Go to http://www.e-messenger.net/ and hit the lingo button there are too many to list.
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This is because your instant messenger has a "dictionary" program embedded. That is, if a word shows up which is part of the dictionary's list of words, it will come up highlighted or underlined, and when you move your mouse over it, it will either show the meaning of the word, a thesaurus, or links to a dictionary or thesaurus. Depending on your IM program, however, you may not be able to disable it. The most recent of AIM and Trillian has these features embedded (change the preferences), but if you use ICQ or MSN or Yahoo!, it is most likely due to a third-party software.
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It means they havent used the Instant Messenger for a while.\nThey still might be using the computer but not the messenger.\n\nWhen the person is back, or just clicks on the Messanger window, the "idle" thing dissappears.