From: jouppe
Message: 58327
Date: 2008-05-03
>May be there is a IIRC-glossary somewhere on the net? Wikipedia?
> At 12:16:42 PM on Saturday, May 3, 2008, Andrew Jarrette
> wrote:
>
> > I would like to know, what does this AFAIK that I have
> > seen frequently lately stand for?
>
> Standard abbreviation for 'as far as I know'. It's one of
> many such: IIRC 'if I remember correctly', AFAICT 'as far as
> I can tell', LOL 'laughing out loud', ROTFL 'rolling on the
> floor laughing', IANAL 'I am not a lawyer', IM(H)O 'in my
> (humble) opinion', IMNSHO 'in my not so humble opinion',
> YMMV 'your mileage may vary', etc. Like emoticons, they're
> common on Usenet and may well have begun there.
>
> Brian
>