Ashesworee: sup

Sandhya: nm

Ashesworee: wat u doin’ now?

Sandhya: chillin’

Need a translation? Well, all they are saying is ‘sup’ — ‘what’s up’ or ‘how are you’, and ‘nm’ is ‘not much’, and to the question to ‘wat u doin’ now’ meaning ‘what are you doing now’ ‘chillin’ means ‘just relaxing’.

Well, that is online or computer- or e-chatting lingo for you.

Online lingo has changed the way people communicate on line. Writing online quickly is just a matter of expressing yourself without being very descriptive as you would be when you talk face to face.

Some lingo meanings are —

BRB: A widely used internet acronym for ‘Be Right Back’, indicating that a user is still connected to the site but is busy doing something else and probably won’t respond to anything you say. It is similar to ‘AFK’ or ‘Away From Keyboard’.

LOL: It is an acronym for ‘Laughing Out Loud’ — a reaction to something humourous.

LTNS: Long Time No See.

CUL8R: See You Later.

WB: Welcome Back.

OTP: On the Phone.

The one bad effect this kind of lingo has is on your English grammar. It might even possibly make you forget the actual spelling.