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WFH – work from home. Used in the subject line or body of the email. 1L – One Liner. Used at the beginning of the subject when the subject of the email is the only text contained in the email. This prefix indicates to the reader that it is not necessary to open the email. E.g., "1L: WFH today".
IDS —Intrusion Detection System. IE —Internet Explorer. IEC —International Electrotechnical Commission. IEEE —Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. IETF —Internet Engineering Task Force. IFL —Integrated Facility for Linux. IGMP —Internet Group Management Protocol. IGRP —Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.
The table below lists information technology initialisms and acronyms in common and current usage. These acronyms are used to discuss LAN, internet, WAN, routing and switching protocols, and their applicable organizations. [1] [2] [3] The table contains only current, common, non-proprietary initialisms that are specific to information technology.
Classic texting abbreviations 1. LOL. This is perhaps the most ubiquitous texting acronym. Short for “laughing out loud,” “LOL” is now used to express even the mildest amusement.
SMS language displayed on a mobile phone screen: "It is great to see you tonight. Thank you for your treats." Short Message Service language, textism, or textese is the abbreviated language and slang commonly used in the late 1990s and early 2000s with mobile phone text messaging, and occasionally through Internet-based communication such as email and instant messaging.
This guideline covers the use of abbreviations —including acronyms and initialisms, contractions, and other shortenings —in the English Wikipedia . Maintaining a consistent abbreviation style allows Wikipedia to be read, written, edited, and navigated more easily by readers and editors. The style should always be consistent within a page.
These abbreviations are, however, commonly used as the basis for glosses for symmetrical voice systems (formerly called 'trigger' agreement, and by some still 'focus' (misleadingly, as it is not grammatical focus ), such as AV (agent voice), BF (beneficiary 'focus'), LT (locative 'trigger').
An abbreviation (from Latin brevis, meaning "short" [1]) is a shortened form of a word or phrase, by any method including shortening, contraction, initialism (which includes acronym) or crasis . An abbreviation may be a shortened form of a word with a trailing period.