florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agoDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?message-squaremessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1139arrow-down15
arrow-up1134arrow-down1message-squareDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-squarePixeIOrange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 months agozB = zum Beispiel = for example usw = und so weiter = and so forth etc = etcetera = and so forth we love shortings too
minus-squareschnurrito@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoof course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-26 months agoEt cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.
zB = zum Beispiel = for example
usw = und so weiter = and so forth
etc = etcetera = and so forth
we love shortings too
of course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English
Et cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.