Imho - Fwiw

I know it from Internet Geek Speak in the late 80s and early 90s. It came in about 10 years after I started using the Internet, I never picked up on it myself.

IMHO stands for "I Am Absolutely Right and Everyone Else is Completely Wrong."
 
Dave Wilkinson said:
Oh!....so that's what it means!, my education is lacking - for a long time I thought LOL was an abreviation of the name of someone called Lawrence!
- slightly off the topic, why does nobody here buy anything? they just 'score' it win it, or 'pick it up'!
Dave.
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You got it all wrong (IMHO, of course :p): they INVEST in something :p

Stefan.
 
Language is about communicating and conveying meaning. The little text abbreviations do that, so I see no problems with them, save the problem of not knowing if your abbreviation is being understood. And all words have that problem anyway.

Worth looking over, some funny ones:
http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
 
mackigator said:
Language is about communicating and conveying meaning. The little text abbreviations do that, so I see no problems with them, save the problem of not knowing if your abbreviation is being understood. And all words have that problem anyway.

Worth looking over, some funny ones:
http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php
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I think that the OP's point concerned exactly what meaning is conveyed either by the full phrase or by the abbreviation. Sir Terry Pratchett had no doubt, and I rather side with him. See page 146 of The Truth (a novel about newspaper publishing on the Discworld): "And something that distinguishes the Mr. Windlings of this world is the term 'in my humble opinion', which they think adds weight to their statements rather than indicating, in reality, 'these are the mean little views of someone with the social graces of duckweed'."


Cheers,

R.
 
I thought ( having english as a second language) IMHO was more polite than IMO as far as its polite to usen an abbreviation.
Best regards
 
Roger Hicks said:
Sir Terry Pratchett sums this one up beautifully in a footnote on page 146 of The Truth (a novel about newspaper publishing on the Discworld): "And something that distinguishes the Mr. Windlings of this world is the term 'in my humble opinion', which they think adds weight to their statements rather than indicating, in reality, 'these are the mean little views of someone with the social graces of duckweed'." R.
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+1 for Mr Pratchett --
He nails both the false humility and the smidgeon of anger, IMHO, if you see what I mean.:D
 
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