According to the FBI, Web Slang Is ‘NIFOC’
http://watchingamerica.com/News/241023/according-to-the-fbi-web-slang-is-nifoc/The FBI has compiled a glossary of web slang for its agents. A commendable effort if it didnt result in a list of, at times, surrealist terms.
According to the FBI, Web Slang Is NIFOC
L'Express, France
By Marie Simon
Translated By Clare Durif
19 June 2014
Edited by Gillian Palmer
The FBI has compiled an (at times absurd) glossary of web slang in order to help its agents to browse social networks ... and speak with their grandchildren.
You are doubtless familiar with LOL, MDR or WTF. But have you already come across an ALOTBSOL, a BFFLTDDUP, a DILLIGAD or a SYWISY? The FBI is crazy about them. These abstruse terms are acronyms used by Internet users, and are part of a list of web slang that FBI agents are requested to know, a list which, according to The Washington Post, is as hilarious as it is frightening.
It has been made public by a collaborative website, Muckrock.com, through a freedom of information request to the FBI. This surreal glossary contains some 3,000 entries listed on 83 pages, which will be of use to FBI agents in their professional use of social networks ... but also for keeping up with their children or grandchildren. American taxpayers will be delighted to hear that, when the simple consultation of a site such as www.internetslang.com would have sufficed.
The FBI therefore appears convinced that in order to fight crime in the United States on a federal scale, it is vital to be able to identify a dangerous ALOTBSOL (always look on the bright side of life), a mysterious BFFLUDDUP ("best friend for life until death do us part" , a DILLIGAD threat ("does it look like I give a damn?" or a dissonant SYWISY ("see you when I see you" .
JustAnotherGen
(31,631 posts)Could have consulted a web site and instead chose to build their list from the ground up! *smh* LOL! YOLO!
merrily
(45,251 posts)I am to the left of Hillary and Obama. If I had been around in the 1930s, I may have wondered now and again if FDR wasn't maybe going a hair too far with all that recovery stuff. But, by the time I was old enough to learn about him, he looked pretty good to me, in hindsight, though heinous on internment and nothing to brag about on civil rights, to say the least--though Eleanor was better.
Anyway, I understand my political position, namely, left of center right New Democrats, makes me the worst possible enemy of Republicans, Democrats and the United States in general. Maybe the world. So, if you'd like me to turn myself in, just pm me.
WYSIWYG
You're welcome.
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)DILLIGAF
BOHICA
merrily
(45,251 posts)Thanks a lot. That's very kind of you. The Federal Bureau of Investigation appreciates your contribution. You must be a real patriot.
merrily
(45,251 posts)That's what I do.
Sometimes, it's a government agency. Sometimes I get the Urban Dictionary. It never takes more than a second or two.
What am I thinking, though? That would have cost nothing.
Anyone want to start a pool on what this cost us?
SNAFU
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)pipoman
(16,038 posts)All they need to do is carry around the 83 page book with their iPhone. Leave it to the government to find a way to spend money going backwards.
merrily
(45,251 posts)(not intended seriously)
fredamae
(4,458 posts)is familiar---Sorry, I am "embarrassed" that I have to ask--what is "MDR"?
I just did a quick search and couldn't find it's meaning....