The most comprehensive Texting Dictionary to date. This pocket size reference book lists over 1500 symbols and acronyms used by the mainstream texting public. This book helps us identify and understand the latest language used by kids to grandparents today. Sentences and phrases are compressed into acronyms, abbreviations and symbols. This is the latest edition on the market today. Though it is edited for all ages, it is the most complete Texting Dictionary to date.

With emphasis on the personal, business, and technology aspects that make using the Internet so unique, this handy reference presents more than 2,500 computer-related terms and industry-specific jargon for anyone who needs to learn the new language of the Net. Newbies as well as techies will find commonly used shorthand, modern office phrases, and a large collection of emoticons and ASII art. An index sorts the terms into 10 popular categories with a complete list of international country codes and file extensions.

It is the future, so decode and use shorthand to communicate faster and with less thumb and finger strain. Emoticons are a lot of fun but more importantly add emotional tone so messages are not taken the wrong way. And for parents, this is your decoder guide to a new life language for kids, so stay in the conversation. Suggested uses: o Device Users - Increase your shorthand knowledge and increase how much you communicate and how fast o Text & Chat Novices - still wondering what WEG is? Find out in one glance with this handy reference o Parents - all kids with devices text, some text or chat with code so that you can not read the conversation, a smaller percentage are chatting with the wrong people - stay in the know for safety

This Dictionary covers information and communication technology (ICT), including hardware and software; information networks, including the Internet and the World Wide Web; automatic control; and ICT-related computer-aided fields. The Dictionary also lists abbreviated names of relevant organizations, conferences, symposia and workshops. This reference is important for all practitioners and users in the areas mentioned above, and those who consult or write technical material. This Second Edition contains 10,000 new entries, for a total of 33,000.

Published in 2001: Abbreviations, nicknames, jargon, and other short forms save time, space, and effort - provided they are understood. Thousands of new and potentially confusing terms become part of the international vocabulary each year, while our communications are relayed to one another with increasing speed. PDAs link to PCs. The Net has grown into data central, shopping mall, and grocery store all rolled into one. E-mail is faster than snail mail, cell phones are faster yet - and it is all done 24/7. Longtime and widespread use of certain abbreviations, such as R.S.V.P., has made them better understood standing alone than spelled out. Certainly we are more comfortable saying DNA than deoxyribonucleic acid - but how many people today really remember what the initials stand for? The Abbreviations Dictionary, Tenth Edition gives you this and other information from Airlines of the World to the Zodiacal Signs.