Over my years of online gaming and chatting I have seen a lot of acronyms, shorthand, and alternate spelling of common words and phrases. The purpose of this post is to let you enjoy the idiocy of the online world.

u - you

r - are

k - okay

lol - laughing/laughs out loud

lmao - laughing my ass off (variations; lmfao lmmfao)

wtf - what the f***

wth - what the hell (can be combined with wtf; wtfh)

newb/noob/n00bie/nub - referring to someone who is new at a game or subject

pr0n - porn (most often a word's vowels are replaced by numbers)

ffs - for f*** sake

omg - oh my god

gd - god damn

hax/haxx0r - refers to the act of hacking/hackers

lamer - someone who attempts to hack something but fails

trainer - in online gaming this is what you call someone who runs past you bringing one or more enemies onto you that eventually attack you ("I was trained" "we might have to train our way back" "that s*** head is a trainer")

plx/plz/pls/plis/plix - please

thx/tks/tnks - thanks

asl - age, sex, and location

lft - in some cases while playing an online game you might to get a team together or join a team to accomplish something, when you are "lft" you are flagged as "looking for a team"

stfu - shut the f*** up

hs - holy s*** or high school

wtf mate - essentially the same as asking or saying "what's going on"

f - most of the time the word f*** is shortened to F and the suffix is variable (fn, fed, f u, etc)

pwn/own - the act of defeating something or someone "I owned your ass newb"

main - your main character in an online game (most of the time your highest leveled or best equipped character)

With that being said I'm sure you can decipher the below statement.

As most of the above is insults, sadly, the Internet and online gaming is mostly insulting each other instead of cooperating. Now that you have been educated in online and gaming slang, go out and pwn some newbs! With that being said I'm sure you can decipher the below statement.

Omfg wtfh hs asl plxkthxbye lol omg newb stfu rofl omg lmmfao!!1!11!!