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Thursday, March 9, 2006
10:00:00 PM EST
Hearing Steps Ahead, Miles Away - Reprise (The Gentle Giant) Hi folks -- nothing too substantive today. I promise I'll have something more useful Friday, in addition to the Guest Editor's Picks.

In the meantime, here's a snippet from the tail-end of an IM conversation I had this morning with a cow-orker (names redacted to protect the innocent):

[JournalsEditor]:  ok, jlmk
[Cow-Orker]:  will do
[JournalsEditor]:  (do people actually use "jlmk"?)
[Cow-Orker]:  I don't know but I actually understood it when you sent it...strange!

Of course, I meant "just let me know" when I typed "jlmk." I was trying to be clever, but I did a search, and it does have a listing in the Free Dictionary, among other places.

It's a little awkward to type, which may be why it hasn't gained wider usage (this online chat acronym dictionary categorizes it as "Commonly used? No.")

It's certainly no wayw, yt, or j/k. Not even a bbiab.

TTYL. Thanks -- Joe


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• #5 Comment from lurkynat 
  3/10/06 6:13 PM | Permalink

  Dear Joe,
  thanks! very informative!
  natalie
• #4 Comment from journalseditorEntry Author 
  3/10/06 11:58 AM | Permalink

  For the uninitiated, WAYW is the old-fashioned "What Are You Wearing?" (or so I hear), YT is "You There?" (a typical IM "ping" message), as noted, JK is "Just Kidding" and "BBIAB" is "Be Back in a Bit."
  
  Thanks -- Joe
• #3 Comment from teeisme57 
  3/10/06 7:13 AM | Permalink

  Thanks for the dictionary link. It's pretty embarrasing when you ask your 12 year old daughter what a MILF is, and she tells you.
• #2 Comment from mavarin 
  3/9/06 10:52 PM | Permalink

  JLMK was easy to figure out, and of course I've seen j(ust)/k(idding) a lot. The others are complete mysteries to me, despite the fact that I've been online since the early 1990s.
  
  Karen
• #1 Comment from cdittric77 
  3/9/06 10:47 PM | Permalink

  Why is it that I feel the need to say:
  
  R U 4 r33l?
  
  ;)
  
  Charley
  http://journals.aol.com/CDittric77/Courage