Thread: 40 useful abbreviations in English

Even if you know English well, then on social networks and when communicating with native speakers, you will probably come across something incomprehensible. Abbreviations stand out here especially, which is not always even clear how to google. On Twitter, a girl named "Mint Gingerbread" gave a list of 40 abbreviations - with their transcript into "human English".

b - be
asap - as soon as possible
b4 - before
bout - about
brb - be right back
c - see
u - you
da - the
dey - they
idk - I don’t know

- Mint Gingerbread🍃 ll russian volcra (@mint___ttt) June 30, 2020

l8r - later
gr8 - great
ova - over
g2g - gotta go
r - are
rite - right
ttyl - talk to you later
wht - what
y’all - you all
lol - laughing out loud
lmao - laughing my ass out

- Mint Gingerbread🍃 ll russian volcra (@mint___ttt) June 30, 2020

Ama - I’m
Dunno - don’t know
10x - thanks
b4n - bye for now
ho - no one
atm - at the moment
btw - by the way
np - no problem
cu - see you
fml - fuck mu life
fyi - for your information
imo - in my opinion

- Mint Gingerbread🍃 ll russian volcra (@mint___ttt) June 30, 2020

hru - how are you
sby - somebody
sth - something
tbh - to be honest
tmi (it's not only the mortal instruments)) - too much information
xoxo - hugs and kisses
wknd - weekend

- Mint Gingerbread🍃 ll russian volcra (@mint___ttt) June 30, 2020

In the comments, users have added a few more abbreviations - in case you already know everything from the list above.

And my experience
sm - so much
tysm - thank you so much
idc - i dont care

- lemon 🐉 (@unusualfeature) July 1, 2020

wdum- what do you mean

From this phrase, I personally already have a nervous tic😹😹

- blind mole (@fiorerossoo) June 30, 2020

Istg - I swear to god
It seems to be

- Vnya🗿✌🏻 ༼ ಢ_ಢ ༽ (@_ya_divan) June 30, 2020

from my communication I can add only hbu - how about you pic.twitter.com/DfLfWCZNyH

- Tennant sexy (@anusalinus) June 30, 2020

Catch for international doctors)
Smd - suck my dick
Ho - whore
Stfu - shut the fuck up
K - ok
What - wot (the British are actively using it because they have it that way)
Yh / ya - yeah (ya may still be you)
Y - why
W / e - whatever

- you go glenn coco (@noma_dick) July 2, 2020