What Do All Those Acronyms Mean?
| A | Adult region rating |
| AFK | Away from Keyboard |
| AO | Animation Overrider, a set of realistic animations in a HUD that your avatar cycles through (stands, walks, sits, etc.) |
| AR | Abuse report, formal report to Linden Lab of a violation of Terms of Service and/or Community Standards |
| ARC | Avatar Rendering Cost, processing power consumed to render an avatar |
| AV | Avatar |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BTW | By the way |
| FPS | Frames per second, a measure of performance |
| FWIW | For what it's worth |
| G | Region rating that does not allow profanity, nudity, sex |
| GTSY | Good to see you |
| HUD | Head Up Display, an on screen control panel |
| IKR | I know, right? |
| IM | a private instant message |
| IMHO | in my honest opinion |
| IRL | in real life |
| JIRA | bug tracker |
| L$ | Lindens = Second life money/currency |
| LL | Linden Lab, Owner/Creator of Second Life |
| LM | Landmark, used to teleport to and store Second Life locations |
| m | square meters |
| M | Mature region rating |
| NC | Note card, used to store and share information |
| NVM | never mind |
| OMG | Oh my God |
| OOC | Out of character |
| PG | Club/Business/Parcel rating that does not allow profanity, nudity, sex |
| RL | Real life |
| RLV | Restrained Love Viewer |
| RP | Role Play |
| SL | Second Life |
| SLT | Second Life Time = California, USA Time |
| SLURL | A web link that launches a teleport |
| TOS | Terms of Service, Second Life rules |
| TP | teleport, how avatars travel in Second Life |
| TTYL | Talk to you later |
| TY | Thank you |
| TYT | Take your time |
| UUID | unique identifier # in Second Life Asset Server Data base |
| WB | Welcome Back |
| YW | You're welcome |
| YVW | You're very welcome |
More information (terms and acronyms) at these links:
- NCI's "The Big Damn SL Glossary" (Now very much out of date)