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All Chat Abbreviations: What do LOL, ROFL and OMG mean?

The cell phone beeps. A SMS. "Hello, FANTA! Jfyi. BG!" And do you understand what it's about? Abbreviations in SMS and chat can be confusing unless you've lived half your life in virtual worlds. The question mark in the face is inevitable in this case.

Abbreviations such as asap and FYI have now even become common in working life. And a nice GK for "greetings and kisses" at the end of a message is certainly understood by most of us.

Poor Goethe, poor Schiller
Even if many linguists cry out loud that this type of shortened communication is not exactly conducive to an extensive vocabulary and that many young people can hardly formulate correct sentences, the abbreviations in chat are still quite practical. Who likes to tap a wolf when it has to be quick?

True to the motto "sometimes it just has to be quick", there are numerous abbreviations for SMS and chat. One can now almost speak of a separate language that has developed there. Stupid only if this language is only understood by a few.

Chat abbreviations: not always easy, but short
It gets even trickier because many chat abbreviations are not from German, but from English. This makes it difficult to understand the abbreviations right from the start. You don't have to understand such a LOL aka "Laughing out loud" when you read it for the first time.

To shed some light on the alphabet jumble, we've put together a small dictionary of SMS and chat abbreviations. From "ASAP" to "BIDUNOWA" to "ZDOM": Let's see if you understand all the abbreviations and maybe there are quite a few that you can use for yourself. Of course, only when things have to be done quickly.

Just one note we have: The abbreviation widumihei for "Will you marry me?" it's just a bad joke please. Anyone who asks this question via SMS simply does not belong in marriage.