No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney!

Of the people who understand it, who LIKES this internet jargon, and who doesn't?

I hate the acronym jargon, like DH, IMHO, LOL, ROTFL, etc., but I think some of the little pictures made up of letters and marks are ingenious.

This thread died 2 years ago....

There is some slang that is peculiar to THIS internet forum, that I've not seen elsewhere, or I have seen elsewhere but used only by people I met on Fodors, or I've seen often on Fodors but rarely anywhere else. Examples:

faboo
resto
piccie

Do you think this forum has its own slang?

Not sure if it does, but will someone tell me what DH stands for? It's the only one I haven't figured out, and my two teenagers were of no use. Darling Husband, maybe?

Close: dear husband.

Hormel invented SPAM during the 30s (depression), but I gather it was eaten a lot during WWII also due to shortages. My dad used to eat it every once in a while (memories, I guess).

It's "darling husband." I used to think it was "divorced husband." Tee hee. So much for communicating!

Is "piccie" used by non-Fodors people, or does that qualify as a slang word that originated on Fodors? I'm also not sure whether I ever heard "resto" anywhere but there.

I never heard "faboo" used before I saw it here, but I did a search for it on Google. Here's what I found:


http://www.slangsite.com/slang/F.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/stephj/sunnydaleslang.html

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4219/

http://www.panikon.com/phurba/alteng/f.html

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Thanks Cmt!

'piccie' (or piccy) is well-established in British and I think Australian English from well before internet days. I would think of the 'internet American' term as 'pix'; likewise 'addy' I've only ever seen from US posters here.

How is "piccie" pronounced?

And what about "faboo"? I detest that word! Where have you heard/seen it used besides on Fodors?

Carol, I think I may be one of the few that uses the common Provençal Resto.

In the 60s, resto was French slang for restaurant; student restaurant = resto-U.

Is "piccie" pronounced like "pixie" or "picky" or "pitchy"?

http://www.aixbynight.net/restos-res...-aix-page1.htm

this is an example

cmt, I would guess that it's pronounced "picky". Despite Australians' habit of abbreviating words I can't recall hearing it, but I guess it's in use. Maybe in the state of Queensland, where the heat makes polysyllabic words just too exhausting to deal with - once in Brisbane a friend announced his intention of setting up the barbie (outside his new four-beddie overlooking South Straddie) and grilling a few muddies, washed down with a tinny or two. By the time I'd interpreted this to mean that he planned a barbecue outside his four-bedroom home overlooking South Stradbrooke Island, complete with mud crabs and cans of beer I was exhausted too.

I don't much like the acronyms, but many times I've found to my cost that tongue-in-cheek humour doesn't always communicate itself in this medium. I got sick of being flamed, LOL, :)

NeilOz: I always find it harder to understand someone's writing when there are acronyms. (I thought it was supposed to make things easier!) Maybe I'm just not enough of a follower/conformer to cheerfully adopt the various trendy lingos of every group that I belong to, Internet or otherwise.

I just saw another one here yesterday: S/O. Someone said it means "significant other."

Still wondering...any info on "faboo" (one of my least favorite adult-use slang words), which I've seen only on the Internet?

I've heard "faboo" outside the internet, but not for several decades I think. Certainly not current now.

cmt, no one answered your piccie (?sp) question. It's pronounced "picky" and is part of the British penchant for adding an "ee" sound to the end of shortened words.
Examples:
Make a rezzie for dinner.
Got lots of prezzies for my birthday.
Oh, what delicious choccies (chockies?)! (chocolates)
Etc.

I think some people did answer my "piccie" question, but no one had replied re "faboo," which I was more interested in pursuing. (For "piccie," it makes sense to give it the "k" sound. I just tend to pronounce a "c" in unfamiliar words as the soft "c' when followed by "i" or "e" so I wasn't getting it.) I saw "faboo" again today, so thought to bring it up again.

In what contextx did you hear FABOO? Funny that I never saw or heard of it until Fodors, and now I see it in several places on the Internet, but still haven't heard it or even seen it in print (on paper, that is).

For some reason I associate the word with the era of Glam Rock. Definitely campy. I would only use it in a satirical, over-the-top way in my own speech. From 5 minutes of googling, it looks like it's having a comeback.

From http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=faboo

1. faboo
It is a slang, shortened version of fabulous. Also can be spelled fabu.
It would be totally faboo if we got tickets to the concert!
Source: Sally, Aug 27, 2004

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Other sites with definitions, explanations, and historical information about "faboo":

http://www.slangsite.com/slang/F.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/stephj/sunnydaleslang.html

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4219/

http://www.panikon.com/phurba/alteng/f.html

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=faboo

http://www.slangcity.com/email_archive/1_15_04.htm

As a techie type since the early 80's I can report:

Flame: to contribute to a discussion by adding more heat (i.e. insults and ranting) than light. This word was around long before the internet.

I think lots of the smileys and LOL's and such have come into use because online communication removes facial expressions and intonation -- without little interjections like this, some witty statments can be difficult to interpret (sarcasm? hostility? insanity?)

Emoticons add information to text by giving a sort of ``stage direction'' for the utterance of the content.

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Cross-referencing to this newer thread: http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34685746

What does UH mean?