General Chat

Detective thought this might be a good discussion for the General Chat board. So here goes...

Some people think IMHO stands for "In MY Honest Opinion", whilst others think the H stands for Humble. Which do you think? Does it matter?

Are there other commonly used sets of initials that have confused you? Have you ever had to google a set of initials to find out what they stood for?

When I first started using these boards I didn't know what OP or OH meant. Initials can be confusing.

Have you ever mistook what somebody was trying to say, because you thought the initials meant something else?

lol I thought it meant lots of love

you all think you have problems
you should try to understand a text sent by Stray
by the time I read it decipher it she is long home from work ;-) ;-)

Sir John Cheke (16 June 1514 – 13 September 1557) was an English classical scholar who wrote:

‘I am of this opinion that our own tung should be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges; wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt‘.

Was that a bit tung in Cheke? :-D

Text speak can be confusing, then when sending a text I sometimes find myself using parts of it (4 for 'for', 2 for twoetc) for speed. :-)

I am unable to text - however, I can do shorthand!!!! :-D :-D

I heard of someone (NOT ME!) who thought "wtf" meant ~ Wow, That's Fantastic!

:-D

Well done Graham :-D

They're strange sayings, aren't they? if you give or have an opinion, it should be honestly held. I believe I'm right but open to persuasion.

Humble opinion? Well, I'm pretending to be subservient; you can disagree with me if you like, but I'm right and you're wrong.

IMHO ;-)

I'm learning slowly but surely that sometimes my opinion is best kept to myself.

But I do enjoy contributing to threads like this especially in the midst of diverse interpretations and conflicting opinions.

I love the phrase "IMHO"

It means the exact opposite as you correctly say - it's like many of these phrases/abbreviations - they do not genuinely mean anything in reality.

IMHO is actually quite a controlling phrase if you think about it.

Then again, I suppose many things said by text/email/bulletin board are probably not how the person would speak in real life or what they might even say.

I know people who laugh and then actually say "lol" :-)

I hope they don't also say pmsl

;-)