florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agoDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?message-squaremessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down16
arrow-up1139arrow-down1message-squareDo other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?florge@feddit.uk to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square93fedilink
minus-squarePixeIOrange@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·5 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-up6·5 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-up2·edit-24 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.