Ang Mga Nagagawa ng mga Taong Walang Magawa (Things Done by People with Nothing to Do)

ASL? LOL? ROFL? ROTFL? BRB? GTG? Sounds family? Errr, familiar?

Yeah, yeah... Chat acronyms, what people usually say in chat rooms, in message boards, in emails, in SMS, and in almost any other form of electronica available today. But now, for the Pinoy chatter, there now are Pinoy versions of these acronyms available for use. Want to know what they are? First things first, let's define the given acronyms for the benefit of those who do not chat (or do not have a frickin' clue what these are)

ASL - Age/Sex/Location. Usually the first thing chatters ask each other. This usually opens the conversation, and sometimes this alone will end the conversation as well. (No way man, I was hoping to hook up with a 20-year-old girl living in QC, not a 48-year-old guy from Retroville or Nerdstown or wherever)

LOL - Laughing out loud. Used to show appreciation for a very good joke, a funny situation, or when the chatter is mentally deranged and laughs at almost every post.

ROFL / ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing. A more extreme version of LOL. This time it involves rolling on the floor while laughing. What's funny about this is that the chatter is still able to type in these letters while rolling on the floor laughing.

BRB - Be right back. Used when the chatter has to step out temporarily, either to get something to drink, or he / she has to go, either #1 or #2.

GTG - Got to go. Used when the chatter is leaving, due to a number of reasons, the most popular of which are the 2: (a) the chatter has to go somewhere; or (b) the chatter found out that the person he's / she's chatting with isn't what he / she expected the other person to be. (see quoted portion in ASL)

Having gotten this out of the way, here are the Pinoy versions of the acronyms.

ASL = EKL - Edad/Kasarian/Lugar, also Edad/Kan(bleep)/Lugar
LOL = TNM - Tawa nang malakas
ROFL/ROTFL = GSSHT - Gumugulong sa sahig habang tumatawa
BRB = BA - Balik ako
GTG = ANA - Alis na ako

Truly, the wonders of what extremely bored people can do.

(ps. potah mike, ala ka talaga magawa 'no? GSSHT)