Internet Lingo You Hate (daughter, wife, how to, open)

[MICoastieMom]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

HAMLET: Act I, Scene IV

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damn'd,
Bring with thee airs from heaven or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet,
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer me!
Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath oped his ponderous and marble jaws,
To cast thee up again. What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon,
Making night hideous; and we fools of nature
So horridly to shake our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should we do?

Hamlet - 2008:

Yo, back off, dude!
RU fly or not?
RU from da hood or uptown?
U lookin 2 party or what?
U pretty damn weird lookin, IMO, dude!
Yo tag be "Hammie" - holla back, yo!
Thawt U wuz ded, dog!
'Sup? LOL!

ROFLOL! When my DH has to come ask why I am laughing so hard, I know it is definitely an ROFLOL moment!

[Fishy]

i used to hate "LOL". now i used it all the time, lol

[115db]

For the longest time I used to think 'DH' meant 'dead husband' since most of the sentences that used the term referred to something 'my dh and I used to do', indicating that past tense, former, guess its easy to be mislead.

[StuckPA]

Eventually all husbands become dead anyway

[SifuPhil]

Originally Posted by StuckPA

Eventually all husbands become dead anyway

Some while they're still living...

[hollygolightly]

When I once saw someone use the abbreviation "stbx" I thought it meant sh*tbox. Now that I know it means "soon to be ex," I guess it could be both.

[BlueWillowPlate]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

To me, it's just another phase of evolution of our language. When the evolution stops, that's when you start having problems.

And fnord - I'm sorry, but there's something suspect about anyone who is unamused with lolcats!

heh
Agreed. And lolcats is so mainstream now that I-google offers it as a feature.
However
I've been on "the internets" since 1995 and I never have seen this DH business anywhere but City Data.
I don't really care for DH. Just not my style.
But I do use many of the other typical acronyms.
A lot of them (such as "pwned") come from gamer types, but many of them are just regular messageboard shortcuts.

[AliceT]

Well, believe it or not, I first heard "The Wife" from a man I worked with. It was about a year before I got my first computer. He always referred to his wife as an object. No endearment at all. I think it shows dislike, no love and no respect. A sure sign that the wedded bliss does not exist in their union.

[StuckPA]

Originally Posted by AliceT

Well, believe it or not, I first heard "The Wife" from a man I worked with. He always referred to his wife as an object. No endearment at all. I think it shows dislike, no love and no respect. A sure sign that the wedded bliss does not exist in their union.

That sounds like my former friend from PA,actually he never was married but he referred to my wife as 'the woman'...
We suspected he was a misogynist all along anyway.

[SifuPhil]

"The little woman" is even better...