Acronyms Used Online Part 1
SLANG: Secret Language
WHIPs: short for Women who are Hot, Intelligent and in their Prime.
Prancercise: another one I came upon by accident, Prancerising is having its 5 minutes of fame on YouTube (go and do a search, I know you want to!). Wikipedia bills it as a holistic fitness method based on “a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse’s gait and ideally induced by elation”. It was created by an American woman, Joanna Rohrback and has been compared to the low-impact aerobics that were popularized by 1980s workout videos.
ELI5: Used when someone gives a complex explanation for an event and you need them to make it simpler, you ask them to “explain it like I’m 5 years old”, or ELI5.
PAW: used by teenagers to indicate that parents are watching.
TIL: When you come across some information that isn’t new but is new to you, so you share it then add the tag TIL – “today I learned”.
TIA: thanks in advance. Personally, I really dislike the use of this one as if you can’t be bothered to write it in full then you don’t come across as being thankful.
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