esolla/Getty Images/Getty Images The FBI keeps a list of Internet slang to aid in its efforts of tracking hackers and other law breakers. You’re going to FP (face palm) when you see the FBI’s internal style guide for Internet slang.
It’s more than 80 pages of definitions and acronyms — or “Twitter shorthand” — for obvious terms such as LOL and WTF.
The document was acquired by the news site MuckRock in its crusade for Freedom of Information requests to see if agents understood leetspeak — a combination of American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) characters with the English language — to aid hacking investigations.
The request filed in January finally turned up on June 13. It shows FBI use the glossary to keep a handle on the evolving language of online users to keep “up with your children and/or grandchildren,” the document said.
The FBI is definitely on it for defining face palm as putting hand over face in dismay, crunk as crazy and drunk, and TARDIS as time and relative dimension in space.
It even gives a hat tip to “The X-Files” by observing MSR (Mulder/Scully Romance), a type of fan fiction for those who wanted more than a professional relationship between the fictional agents — but then it gets weird.
The list of more than 2,800 entries spirals into obscurity and, as the Washington Post describes it, is “a tad out of touch.”
It cites terms such as ALOTBSOL as slang, which doesn’t mean anything as an acronym, but when it’s spoken in its entirety, it quotes Monty Python: “Always look on the bright side of life.”
But TLGO (The List Goes On), and in case this is TL;DR (Too Long Didn’t Read), here’s a short list of oddball slang on the FBI’s radar:
- YKWRGMG (You Know What Really Grinds My Gear/Gets My Goat)
- SHCHOON (Shoot Hot Coffee Out Of Nose)
- QWERTYUIOP (Bored)
- IOKIYAR (It’s Okay If You Are Not Republican)
- SIFS (Secret Internet Fatties)
- TANSTAAFL (There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)
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