Slang and Abbreviations

[IBBoard]

Since this is the Newbie Outpost, I might as well finally put something helpful in, rather than just introductions This is just something I thought of now while using an abbreviation in a post:

• GW - Games Workshop
• WH40K, W40K or 40K - Warhammer 40,000
• WHFB - Warhammer Fantasy Battle
• BFG - Battle Fleet Gothic
• LotR - Lord of the Rings
• TT - Table Top
• BB - Bulletin Board (unlikely) or Blood Bowl
• WHQ - Warhammer Quest (dungeon exploration)
• DoW - Dawn of War (the GW Computer game)
• WA - Winter Assault (the DoW expansion pack)
• DC - Dark Crusade (the DoW expansion pack)
• WD - White Dwarf magazine
• SM - Space Marine
• CSM - Chaos Space Marine
• DE - Dark Eldar (possibly Dark Elf as well, but not that I've seen)
• BA - Blood Angels (the SM Chapter)
• DA - Dark Angels (again, the SM Chapter)
• SW - Space Wolves (again the SM Chapter) or Star Wars
• WFRP - Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
• IG - Imperial Guard
• Ult - Ultramarines
• WH - Witch hunters
• DH - Daemon Hunters
• BT - Black Templars
• FC - Force Commander
• HB - Heavy Bolter
• GK - Grey Knights

Any other suggestions on useful abbreviations to list, just tell me

[Librarian Rannos]

SM for Space marines?Annoying...

[IBBoard]

Some people use it, and CSM for Chaos Space Marines.

*thinks of a couple more and adds them.

[Librarian Rannos]

Well you forgot to add them.

[IBBoard]

I added Dark Eldar - I thought I had some more, but then couldn't think of them
Although I've just thought of BA for Blood Angels

[Librarian Rannos]

Whatever...BTW check out the debates forum-the story thread[the one which different people add a portion of the story].

[TGSC]

If you've got BA, you might want DA - Dark Angels

Some more common ones WH40k - Warhammer 40,000, WHFB - Warhammer Fantasy Battle, BFG - Battle Fleet Gothic. Also: 5-HT - 5-hydroxytryptamine (seratonin), EPSP - excitatory post synaptic potential, cAMP - cyclic adenosine monophosphate. Or not.

[IBBoard]

Added the game based ones (plus a couple more games) but I skipped your psychological ones (I'm assuming thats what they are)

[Librarian Rannos]

It seems that studies have driven mad[or nuts as I would put it] TGSC.Are you giving finals now TGSC?

[TGSC]

I'm in my first year of psychology at the moment, I took a biomedical module on Neuroscience and its a little more complex, gives you lots of intelligent sounding terms, although my medical student friends usually beat me with more complex ones

I've just found AMPA-R, which is a amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole proprionic acid glutamate receptor. Although thats cheating really cos I don't know what it is or what it does. I can see why they abbriviated it though .

[Librarian Rannos]

If you really want to use those terms at least use them with abbriviations!With my english [which are pretty bad] I can't figure out what these thingies are,nor what they do.Basically I'm not sure if I can pronounce them correctly!

[IBBoard]

*is tempted to split it into a separate topic*
Don't worry, don't think most people will understand those long words! or be able to pronounce them properly. Very specialised and scientific

[Librarian Rannos]

Yeah,a real ridle....
Whatever.

[Simguinus]

WFRP - for Warhammer Fantasy Role-Playing ?

Just a thought.[/b]

[IBBoard]

Nowhere near as common, but ok - it's been added now.