There are so many ways to abbreviate and shorten what you want to say: from "ngl" and "IMO" to "tbh" and "hmu." You could form an entire sentence just by using text lingo. Even though these phrases ...

From informal texts to published academic works, these common abbreviations appear everywhere. But do you know what they really mean? From Dr. to Dept., we rely on common abbreviations every ...

Has someone ever used a text acronym and you don't know what it means? There are so many slang words out there used to abbreviate and shorten text conversations. While these acronyms may be quick and ...

Have you ever been texting and thought, "idk" to a question? Or has someone made a statement that made you say "smh." Maybe you are confused by all these acronyms and Internet slang examples. New ...

You probably use acronyms every day without even realizing it. Some abbreviations get used so much they just become regular words, and most people have no idea they started as a string of initials. It ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – Just when you thought you had ...

Have you ever been texting and ended up being confused by certain acronyms and Internet slang like "idk?" Online communication has certainly changed over the last several decades, and there seems to ...

Acronyms are the military’s coping mechanism and cultural shorthand. They take massive, messy systems (logistics, pay, assignments, housing, healthcare) and compress them into three- or four-letter ...

(NEXSTAR) – Just when you thought you had them all memorized, yet another internet-driven slang term has arrived to make you feel out-of-touch. The latest of these slang terms is “IJBOL,” an acronym ...