GEN: Meaning of BTW, etc.

Paul E. Ratty asked what the letters BTW refer to. Here's a
partial list of some common abbreviations:

BTW By The Way
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMHBCO In My Humble But Considered Opinion
TIA Thanks In Advance
HTH Hope This Helps
RTFM Read The Fine Manual
TTFN Ta Ta For Now
FWIW For What It's Worth
ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
YiS Yours in Scouting

You may also run across hieroglyphic-like punctuation marks that
look like :-) . These are not slips of the fingers on the keyboard,
nor are they electronic noise, but they are smiley faces. If you turn
your head to the left, you see that the colon makes up the eyes; the
nose is a hyphen; and the mouth is a parenthesis. Substituting a
semicolon for the colon ;-), gives you a winking smiley face. There
are many other variations on the smiley face, but most of the others
are not used very often.

Yours in Scouting,

Alan

Alan Wolfson Assistant District Commissioner
Molecular Simulations Incorporated Arrowhead Dist. Daniel Webster Council
(617) 229-9800 I used to be a Bear (NE-CS-36)
awolfson@msi.com Co-leader Junior Troop #307 GSUSA

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