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Old 11-12-2011, 18:50
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Sorry I have cracked and had to start a thread to find out.....what the heck does BIB mean I have seen it on several posts but I just cant work out what it is. I know I am going to feel extremely stupid when its revealed.
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Old 11-12-2011, 18:51
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Bit in Bold.
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Old 11-12-2011, 18:51
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Old 11-12-2011, 18:51
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Old 11-12-2011, 18:53
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Sorry I have cracked and had to start a thread to find out.....what the heck does BIB mean I have seen it on several posts but I just cant work out what it is. I know I am going to feel extremely stupid when its revealed.
Bit in Bold - people often put a section of a previous person's post in bold they want to reply to, or to pick out a bit they agree with in particular.
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Old 11-12-2011, 18:53
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Old 11-12-2011, 19:39
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Thanks guys.....see now I feel silly lol.
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Old 11-12-2011, 19:47
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Thanks guys.....see now I feel silly lol.
Don't because I didnt know what it meant either and could not figure it out
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Old 11-12-2011, 19:58
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Me neither! Thanks Jan2555*GG* for sticking your neck out and asking.
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:07
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Thanks guys.....see now I feel silly lol.
I had to ask on another forum after months of guessing!
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:17
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can I add one ETA
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:33
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I had to ask about WUM and ETA and felt very silly
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:34
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can I add one ETA
Edit To Add
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:37
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Thanks guys.....see now I feel silly lol.
dont feel silly, I didnt know what it meant either
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:39
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Old 11-12-2011, 20:52
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See now ETA would have been estimated time of arrival for me and that probably wouldnt have made sense at all
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:06
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There's a new abbreviation every year! I've been using computers for over 20 years and when I saw BIB on here this year I didn't have a clue!

There is an increased use of

/\/\ This

too even when a post is quoted!
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:29
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whilst here can I also add ZOMG
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Old 11-12-2011, 21:48
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whilst here can I also add ZOMG
That imitates an excited spelling error of OMG, at least I think. A bit like how 'pwn' is used instead of 'own' in the gaming community.
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Old 11-12-2011, 22:07
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Thanks guys.....see now I feel silly lol.
No need to feel silly.

There is no need for that abbreviation either. It is long established practice on DS to highlight in bold whatever you are commenting on, without needing to state (albeit cryptically) that that is what you are doing.
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Old 11-12-2011, 22:11
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See now ETA would have been estimated time of arrival for me and that probably wouldnt have made sense at all
That's what I thought too before I discovered the alternative that it was used for. It would be better to write Edit: instead of some mystifying abbreviation.
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Old 12-12-2011, 21:53
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That imitates an excited spelling error of OMG, at least I think. A bit like how 'pwn' is used instead of 'own' in the gaming community.
Mostly right, ZOMG is simply Oh My God with an additional Z showing you were so excited about typing you got it wrong. On internet gaming forums it's usually typed ZMOG though
However, pwn doesn't equal own in the same way, it's usually used in a negative sense and implies the originator of the statement got one over on the pwn-ee rather than simply being a mistype ie you got pwned in that last PvP (person versus person for those who don't play multi player games) encounter or "I pwned you".

A more equivalent mistype from the gaming world would be teh where the is incorrectly typed because you're doing something too quickly

ETA: Edited to add/Edit to Add.

^^ or /\/\ means this above and is usually quoted when the person you're agreeing with has posted directly before you.

There was a very useful sticky thread on the old BBC forums where we collated all the abbreviations usually used on the internet in discussion groups. Sadly there doesn't seem to be an equivalent over here.

That's what I thought too before I discovered the alternative that it was used for. It would be better to write Edit: instead of some mystifying abbreviation.
No because Edit simply means you've edited your original post. ETA means you've ADDED something to the post, the two things are different.
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Old 12-12-2011, 21:58
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No because Edit simply means you've edited your original post. ETA means you've ADDED something to the post, the two things are different.
This. ^
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Old 12-12-2011, 22:02
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Old 12-12-2011, 22:05
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whilst here can I also add ZOMG
That imitates an excited spelling error of OMG, at least I think. A bit like how 'pwn' is used instead of 'own' in the gaming community.

Never heard or come across either these!
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