A crop of abbreviations common to texting and email have been included in the Oxford English Dictionary, legitimizing the language shift caused by rapid-fire, text-based communications.
The online abbreviations for "laughing out loud," or LOL, "best friends forever," or BFF, "in my humble opinion," or IMHO and "oh my God," or OMG, are now part of the OED, reflecting the influence of mobile and Internet technologies on contemporary language usage. The venerable tome recently added all four abbreviations during one of its quarterly updates. The heart symbol was also added to the dictionary, becoming the first symbol to make its way into the book as a "word."
"WTF? I need to get my GTL on so I can find a girl that is DTF and I don't even care if its OPP."
