Salam ........

On the Internet, you sometimes see this dude and his relatives:

:-)

People don't want to offend, so they "smile when they say that,

pardner." Personally, I think that we see too much of this. Some

people use these at the end of almost every sentence. But, it

doesn't hurt to know what they mean. Here is a list, from the

World Almanac:


:-) Smile

;-) Wink

:-* Kiss

{*} Hug and a kiss

:-( Unhappy

:-o Shouting


Internet abbreviations, given in the same source, are:

BTW By the way

HHOS Ha, ha, only serious

F2F Face to face (personal meeting)

FCOL For crying out loud

IMO In my opinion

LOL Laughing out loud

OTOH On the other hand

ROFL or ROTFL Rolling on the floor, laughing

TAFN That's all for now

Two or three of these seem to be fairly important (BTW, LOL, and IMO).

This is the most used abbreviations on the internet " in Emails,

Irc ,Icq and all other chat places ...