Comment on Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PixeIOrange@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  zB = zum Beispiel = for example

  usw = und so weiter = and so forth

  etc = etcetera = and so forth

  we love shortings too

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    of course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English

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  • lud@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Et cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and other languages as well.

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• umfk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  hdgdl

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  • trk@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that what you do with Bitcoin?

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• zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  smh = iwie (irgendwie)

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  • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    smh means shaking my head though

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    • zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lol, I always used it for “somehow” :')

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  • exocortex@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m using none of these. But what i use almost all the time : possibly = evtl (eventuell) maybe = vllt (vielleicht) kindest regards = LG (Liebe Grüße) e.g. /for example = zB (z.B.: / zum Beispiel) (i omit the dots and colons)

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    • zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, I use those too ^^

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