Chat lingo

A free way to communicate with foreigners is “chat” online in a chat room or forum, and Yahoo Messenger is not a bad choice to do this. Open this page http://chat.yahoo.com, download the software, install it and you’ll be able to click the link “join chat rooms” to start chatting. But before you do this, there are a lot of “chat lingoes” (chat slang or acrothym) you have to know. Some are listed below:

JK——————Just Kidding
JMO—————Just My Opinion
k, K, or kk——O. K.
IC——————I See
IDN—————–I Don’t kNow
IDK—————–I Don’t Know
WC——————WelCome
THX—————–Thanks!
TIA——————Thanks In Advance
YW——————You’re Welcome

you can find more at Chat Lingoes or here

A few more quick notes on how this “slang and lingo” is created, which are very funny:
They can be put together in many different ways. Also, you will find some kids mixing numbers in with letters, so if you see:
“h3 l3Ft” substitute the 3 with an E, forget about the caps, and you have “he left”.
You will also notice 2 odd items,
1. people tend to extend letters in chat rooms to convey emotion, so HEYYYYYYYY BILLLLLLLL, simply means someone is expressing a lot of emotion in saying hello to Bill.
2. Vowels get left out a lot in chat, and that’s wrd. (in this case, weird, although I’ve seen it mean word)
And lastly, you will see the letter z everywhere. Usually it replaces s or es (the plural of something)
i.e.: 2 many billz = I have too many bills. Although that z gets tossed around a lot, as in hugzzzz, thankz, huggelzzzz, kkz, for OK, etc. Stick with it a while, and you’ll be able to catch most of it.
143 means I love you (1=I, 4=Love, and 3=You, so the meaning comes from the number of letters in each word)
% is usually to replace the double o ‘oo’ , as in T%K means took,
& replaces ‘and’ so b& would be band,