@florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 3 months agoDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?message-square96fedilinkarrow-up1148arrow-down16
arrow-up1142arrow-down1message-squareDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?@florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world • 3 months agomessage-square96fedilink
minus-square@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink13•3 months agoIMO in German = mMn (meiner Meinung nach) But for the most part we use the English ones
minus-square@PixeIOrange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink10•3 months agozB = zum Beispiel = for example usw = und so weiter = and so forth etc = etcetera = and so forth we love shortings too
minus-square@schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink6•3 months agoof course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English
minus-square@lud@lemm.eelinkfedilink2•edit-23 months agoEt cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.
minus-squareZyratoxxlinkfedilink7•edit-23 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-square@exocortex@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink2•3 months agoI’m using none of these. But what i use almost all the time : possibly = evtl (eventuell) maybe = vllt (vielleicht) kindest regards = LG (Liebe Grüße) e.g. /for example = zB (z.B.: / zum Beispiel) (i omit the dots and colons)
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
Lol, I always used it for “somehow” :')
I’m using none of these. But what i use almost all the time : possibly = evtl (eventuell) maybe = vllt (vielleicht) kindest regards = LG (Liebe Grüße) e.g. /for example = zB (z.B.: / zum Beispiel) (i omit the dots and colons)
True, I use those too ^^