My husband is a gamer - WOW and Starcraft mostly - and he got me into WOW. One thing most people know about nerdy online gamers is that there's a whole other language being used:
"Can't cast" - "I can't cast a spell and am probably going to die,"
"Sheep him!" - "Turn that bad guy into a sheep, rendering him defenseless"
"Lok'Tar!" - Orc for "victory!"
"pwning n00bs" - Killing players who are low level
"qq more n00b" - (sarcasm) "Go ahead and cry about that some more"
"L2P" - "Learn to Play" which I've been told a few times :(
...are some that come to mind.
One that I've never quite understood was OMGWTFBBQ - OMG and WTF are self explanatory, but BBQ? Idk.
When I started reading about conception and fertility, I learned that this world, not unlike the World of Warcraft, has its own language too (from The Leaky Boob and The Impatient Woman's Guide):
AF - Aunt Flo (period)
AP - Attachment Parenting
APNO - all purpose nipple ointment
BBT - Basal Body Temp
BC - Birth Control
BD - Baby Dance (sex)
BF - Breastfeeding
BFP - Big Fat Positive
BFN - Big Fat Negative
BM - breastmilk
CIO - cry it out
CLW -child led weaning
CM - cervical mucus
DD - Dear Daughter
DH - Dear Husband
DOC - date of conception
DS - Dear Son
DTD - Do the deed
EBF - Exclusively Breastfeeding/breastfed
EBM - expressed breastmilk
EGCW - eggwhite cervical mucus (means you're fertile)
FTT - failure to thrive
FT - full term
FX - Fingers Crossed
HCP - health care provider
HPT - home pregnancy test
LC - Lactation Consultant
LO - little one/loved one
MC - miscarriage
MW - midwife
NIP - nursing in public
OB - obstetrician
POAS - pee on a stick
SAHM - Stay At Home Mom
SAHD - Stay At Home Dad
SAHP - Stay At Home Parent
SO - significant other
STTN - Sleep through the night
TTC - trying to conceive
US - ultrasound
2WW - wait time from ovulation to using a pregnancy test
... And that's just a small sample! OMGWTFBBQ!!
Take a look at any message board about fertility, childbirth or parenting and you'll see whole paragraphs that look like:
"DH and I have been TTC, just got EGCW and BBT rose, so BD tonite! FX during 2WW to POAS on HPT and get BFP!!"
Honestly, I would never refer to Hubs as DH (gag!) and if the term BD ever came to mind while we were TTC I'd probably laugh too hard to DTD! And I don't know why it's so hard to type things like "pregnancy test" or instead of BFP, just saying "I'm knocked up!"
Keep it simple, folks!
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