List of Internet / Usenet / Email Acronyms: new Slang / shorthands The following is a list of some common words or phrases that are used.. The list is far from being complete, it just co
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The following is a list of some common words or phrases that are used The list is far from being complete, it just contains the abbreviations, which I consider most useful The acronyms /
abbreviations are mostly written in upper case
2F4U Too Fast For You
4YEO
FYEO For Your Eyes Only
AAMOF As A Matter Of Fact
ACK Acknowledgment
AFAIK As far as I know
AFAIR As far as I remember / recall
AFK Away from keyboard
ASAP As Soon As Possible
B2K BTK Back To Keyboard
BTT Back To Topic
BTW By the way
C&P Copy and Paste
CU See you
CYS Check your settings
DIY Do it yourself
EOBD End Of Business day
EOD End Of Discussion
EOM End Of Message
EOT End Of Thread / End of Text / End of Transmission
FAQ Frequently asked questions
FACK Full Acknowledge
FKA Formerly Known As
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For your information
HF Have fun
HTH Hope This Helps
IIRC If I Recall / Remember Correctly
IMHO In my humble opinion
IMO In my opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble / Honest Opinion
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ITT In this thread
LOL Laugh out loud
MMW Mark My Words
N/A Not Available / Applicable
NaN Not a Number
noob n00b Newbie
NOYB None of your business
OMG Oh my God
OP Original Poster, Original Post
OT Off Topic
OTOH On The Other Hand
PEBKAC Problem exists between keyboard and chair
POV Point of view
ROFL Rolling on the floor laughing
RTFM Read the fucking manual
SCNR Sorry, Could Not Resist
TBA To be announced
TBC To be continued / To be confirmed
TIA Thanks in advance
THX TNX Thanks
TQ Thank You
TYT Take your time
TTYL Talk to you later
w00t Whoomp, there it is; meaning "Hooray"
WFM Works For Me
WTF What The Fuck
WTH What The Hell / What the Heck
YMMD You made my Day
YMMV Your mileage may vary
50 Rules for Writing Good - Writing tips
One of the more popular items that circulate through the network of folk faxology is a perverse set of rules along the lines of Thimk, We Never Make Mistakes and (this one runs off the page) PlanAhe These injunctions call attention to the very mistakes they seek to enjoin English teachers, students, scientists and (scientific) writers have been circulating a list of
self-contradictory rules of usage for more than a century, and have been collecting and creating them
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1 Each pronoun should agree with their antecedent
2 Between you and I, case is important
3 A writer must be sure to avoid using sexist pronouns in his writing
4 Verbs has to agree with their subjects
5 Don't be a person whom people realize confuses who and whom
6 Never use no double negatives
7 Never use a preposition to end a sentence with That is something up with which your readers will not put
8 When writing, participles must not be dangled
9 Be careful to never, under any circumstances, split infinitives
10 Hopefully, you won't float your adverbs
11 A writer must not shift your point of view
12 Lay down and die before using a transitive verb without an object
13 Join clauses good, like a conjunction should
14 The passive voice should be avoided
15 About sentence fragments
16 Don't verb nouns
17 In letters themes reports and ad use commas to separate items in a series
18 Don't use commas, that aren't necessary
19 "Don't overuse 'quotation marks.'"
20 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (if the truth be told) superfluous
21 Contractions won't, don't and can't help your writing voice
22 Don't write run-on sentences they are hard to read
23 Don't forget to use end punctuation
24 Its important to use apostrophe's in the right places
25 Don't abbrev
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27 Resist Unnecessary Capitalization
28 Avoid mispellings
29 Check to see if you any words out
30 One word sentences? Eliminate
31 Avoid annoying, affected, and awkward alliterations, always
32 Never, ever use repetitive redundancies
33 The bottom line is to bag trendy locutions that sound flaky
34 By observing the distinctions between adjectives and adverbs, you will treat your readers real good
35 Parallel structure will help you in writing more effective sentences and to express
yourself more gracefully
36 In my own personal opinion at this point of time, I think that authors, when they are writing, should not get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words that they don't really need
37 Foreign words and phrases are the reader's bete noire and are not apropos
38 Who needs rhetorical questions?
39 Always go in search for the correct idiom
40 Do not cast statements in the negative form
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A Translation of common Scientific Research Phrases [Source: unknown]
This list of phrases and their translations might help you understand the mysterious language of science in general and medicine / biology specifically These special phrases are also applicable
to anyone working on a Ph.D dissertation or academic paper at a university anywhere on earth
It has long been known I didn't look up the original reference
A definite trend is evident These data are practically meaningless
Of great theoretical and practical importance Interesting to me
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definite answers to these questions
An unsuccessful experiment, but I still hope to get it published
Three of the samples were chosen for detailed
study The results of the others didn't make any sense. Typical results are shown This is the prettiest graph
These results will be shown in a subsequent
report
I might get around to this sometime, if I'm pushed / funded
The most reliable results are those obtained by
Jones
He was my graduate assistant
It is generally believed that A couple of other people think so, too
It is clear that much additional work will be
required before a complete understanding of the
phenomenon occurs
I don't understand it
Correct within an order of magnitude Wrong
According to statistical analysis Rumor has it
A statistically oriented projection of the
significance of these findings A wild guess.
Thanks are due to Joe Blotz for assistance with
the experiment and to George Frink for valuable
discussions
Blotz did the work and Frink explained to me what it meant
A careful analysis of obtainable data Three pages of notes were obliterated when I
knocked over a glass of wine
It is hoped that this study will stimulate further
investigation in this field
I quit
Different Terms / Categories for different
Types of Writing
• Extended Abstract
• Conference Paper
• Journal Paper
• Thesis
• Correspondence
• Proposal
• Instruction
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• Presentation
• Report (technical, management)
• Web presentation
• Tutorial
• Textbook
• Literature