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  • Assuming you mean texting style acronyms, yeah, we have them in German and I'd assume in other languages too.

    Alongside the stuff borrowed from English 1:1, there's stuff like bb for "Bis bald" (See you soon) or hdl for "hab dich lieb" (Love you)

    I'd assume other languages do the same out of efficiency or laziness.

  • ex-USSR early rusophonic internet had a lot of original and transliterated ones but I rarely see them nowadays, and most are community-specific. Some didn't carry over, some replaced by chat stickers, and the writing\reading of longer posts itself seems like a niche now when there are audio and video messages at hand. Add there that the web space I talk about is now also fragmented and occupied by bots\dummies due to the war and many sites for international communication on russian lost a big part of frequent posters\mods and later effectively musk'ed themselves.

    Those I've heard the last: 

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            imo > кмк > как мне кажется > what I suspect is
    bf > мч > молодой человек > young partner
    wtf > чзх > что за хуйня > what's a dickshit
    idk > хз > хуй (его) знает > dick knows (that)

    A lot of newer words I googled after hearing it from kids came from TikTok and they are mostly translations of trends carried in by local influencers.

    • I've been saying it for years, what is a dickshit?

      • In Russian? There are like five basic words you make your obscene lexics from (like 'fuck' in English), and хуй (khooy) is one of them, meaning dick, and хуйня (khooy-nya) is a thing related to a dick in a bad way, like a borked project or a complicated situation, while not having a direct translation on it's own. Something like, ehm, a dick-thing? as it's a noun, just like хуета (khu-e-tah), meaning the same. There are also an adverb хуёво (khoo-yovo) meaning something isn't going great, and забил хуй (zah-beel khooy) when you discarded your dick in that situation and don't give a fuck about what's going on.

        Many of them you can hear on the recordings from the ongoing war.

        I'm not sure I've understood you correctly, so you can specify what you want to know.

    • I'd say хз (the last one) is still used very commonly, but the rest are a bit outdated and I barely see them anymore.

      Another thing I thought was outdated but some of my friends use is shortening common words. "I like" would be "мне нравится" and some people save themselves a second and write it like "мне нрав".

      And another thing I just thought of is "etc" equivalent in Russian, "и т.д.", this one is used officially in documents etc, it's a shortening of "и так далее", literally "and so on". And some people simplify it further by writing "итд" without spaces and dots.

  • One that I'm aware of is "tskr" in Japanese. It's a slang term that derives from たすかる (tasukaru). The meaning depends on the context and it can mean something like either "you saved me" or "thanks for helping me".

  • The only Hindi acronyms that I know of are offensive. There's mc, which stands for madarchod (motherfucker), and bc, which stands for behenchod (sister fucker).

    There's also the rarely used AMJ, Hindi equivalent of TIL, used on the Hindi version of r/todayilearnt (r/aajmainejana).

  • Of course! In Greek we say ΓΤΠ and sometimes anglicise it a gtp. It directly translates "for the dick" which means something is rubbish.

    We sometimes shorten γαμώτο (fuck) το 'γμτ'

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