Re[2]: [tied] AFAIK

At 2:22:19 PM on Monday, May 5, 2008, Rick McCallister
wrote:

> --- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

[...]

>> 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.

> I've never seen these type of abbreviations in
> Spanish, but do they exist in other languages. In
> Spanish, I see oddball and popular or hillbilly
> spellings e.g. ¿ke onda? ¿on ta? for "¿Qué onda?
> ¿Dónde estás?

In German I've seen WIMRE 'wenn ich mich recht erinnere',
but mostly I've seen the more common English abbreviations.

Brian