The Internet is full of bizarre and bewildering neologisms, that anyone though a text-addled teen would onslaught to understand. So a fine, taxpayer-funded people of a FBI - apparently not calm to trawl Urban Dictionary, like a rest of us - gathered a glossary of Internet slang. An 83-page glossary. Containing scarcely 3,000 terms. The glossary was recently finished open by a Freedom of Information ask by a organisation MuckRock, that posted a PDF, called "Twitter shorthand," online. Despite a name, this isn't only Twitter slang: As a FBI's Intelligence Research Support Unit explains in a introduction, it's a authority on shorthand used opposite a Internet, including in "instant messages, Facebook and Myspace." As if that Myspace anxiety wasn't explanation adequate that a FBI's a tad out of touch, a IRSU afterwards promises a list will infer useful both professionally and "for gripping adult with your children and/or grandchildren." (Your taxation dollars during work!)

All of these teenager gaffes could be forgiven, however, if a glossary itself was indeed good. Obviously, FBI operatives and researchers need to know Internet jargon - a Internet is, increasingly, where crime goes down these days. But afterwards we get things like ALOTBSOL ("always demeanour on a splendid side of life") and AMOG ("alpha masculine of group") … within a initial 10 entries. ALOTBSOL has, for a record, been tweeted fewer than 500 times in a whole eight-year story of Twitter. AMOG has been tweeted distant some-more often, though customarily in Spanish … as a misspelling, it would appear, of "amor" and "amigo."

Among a other head-scratching terms a FBI considers can't-miss Internet slang:

    AYFKMWTS ("are we f-- teasing me with this s-?") - 990 tweets
    BFFLTDDUP ("best friends for life until genocide do us part) - 414 tweets
    BOGSAT ("bunch of guys sitting around talking") - 144 tweets
    BTDTGTTSAWIO ("been there, finished that, got a T-shirt and wore it out") - 47 tweets
    BTWITIAILWY ("by a way, we consider we am in adore with you") - 535 tweets
    DILLIGAD ("does it demeanour like we give a damn?") - 289 tweets
    DITYID ("did we tell we I'm depressed?") - 69 tweets
    E2EG ("ear-to-ear grin") - 125 tweets
    GIWIST ("gee, we wish we pronounced that") - 56 tweets
    HCDAJFU ("he could do a pursuit for us") - 25 tweets
    IAWTCSM ("I determine with this criticism so much") - 20 tweets
    IITYWIMWYBMAD ("if we tell we what it means will we buy me a drink?") - 250 tweets
    LLTA ("lots and lots of howling applause") - 855 tweets
    NIFOC ("naked in front of computer") - 1,065 tweets, many of them referring to acronym guides like this one.
    PMYMHMMFSWGAD ("pardon me, we contingency have mistaken me for someone who gives a damn") - 128 tweets
    SOMSW ("someone over my shoulder watching) - 170 tweets
    WAPCE ("women are pristine strong evil") - 233 tweets, few relating to women
    YKWRGMG ("you know what unequivocally grinds my gears?") - 1,204 tweets