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[keptwoman]

OK, so a few people have asked this. Firstly you have all the forum jargon which is pretty common across the www, but added on top of that is all the home ed jargon, good fun.

Can I have help to make a master list? I'll put down all the ones I can think of and you can add to it, I'll sticky a new master list when we are done.

General

DS/DD/DC Dear daughter/Dear son/ Dear children
DSS/DSD Dear Step son/daughter
DH/DW/DP Dear Husband/Dear Wife/Dear Partner
XH Ex husband
eta edited to add
HTH Hope that helps
MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL Mother/Father/Sister/Brother In law
ROFL Roll on floor laughing
LOL Lots of laughs/Laugh out loud
kwim?/iykwim know what I mean?/if you know what I mean
fwiw for what it's worth
jm2c just my 2 cents
ATM At the moment
IME In my experience
IMO/IMHO In my opinion/ In my Honest Opinion/In my humble opinion
TIA Thanks in advance
YMMV your mileage may vary (ie your experience may differ or it may not work the same for you)

Home Education general and Curricula (Alphabetical order)

AAS All About Spelling
AG Analytical Grammar
BLM Blackline masters.
FIAR Five In A Row
FLL First Language Lessons (for the Well Trained Mind)
GDI Getty Dubay Italic
GWG Growing with Grammar
HEA Home Education Australia
HEN Home Education Network (Victoria)
HS/HSing Homeschool/Homeschooling and sometimes High School
HWT Handwriting Without Tears
IEW Institute for Excellence in Writing
JAG Junior Analytical Grammar
KLAs - Key Learning Areas
LA Language Arts (English)
LEM Light Education Ministries
LLATL Learning Language Arts Through Literature
LOTE Language other than English
MCT Micheal Clay Thompson Language Arts Program
MrQ Mr Q's Classical Science
MUS Math U See
OUA Open Universities Australia
PP Phonics Pathways
RFWP Royal Fireworks Press, Publisher of MCT
RSO REAL Science Odyssey
RS4K Real Science 4 Kids
SL Sonlight
SOSE Studies of Society and Environment
SoTW Story of the World
SWR Spell to Write and Read
TOG Tapestry of Grace
TT Teaching Textbooks
WTM/TWTM The Well Trained Mind
VELS Victorian Essential Learning Standards
VSL Victorian School of Languages
SAT Scholarship Aptitude Test

[Joanne]

keptwoman wrote: General DS/DD/DC Dear daughter/Dear son/ Dear children DSS/DSD Dear Step son/daughter DH/DW/DP Dear Husband/Dear Wife/Dear Partner XH Ex husband MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL Mother/Father/Sister/Brother In law ROFL Roll on floor laughing LOL Lots of laughs/Laugh out loud kwim?/iykwim know what I mean?/if you know what I mean fwiw for what it\'s worth jm2c just my 2 cents ATM At the moment IMO/IMHO In my opinion/ In my Honest Opinion TIA Thanks in advance Home Education (I\'ll put them in alphabetical order) FLL First Language Lessons MUS Math U See PP Phonics Pathways SoTW Story of the World TT Teaching Textbooks Copy and add your ones :) Thanks Sandra! :slider_than

[kyles978]

General DS/DD/DC Dear daughter/Dear son/ Dear children DSS/DSD Dear Step son/daughter DH/DW/DP Dear Husband/Dear Wife/Dear Partner XH Ex husband MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL Mother/Father/Sister/Brother In law ROFL Roll on floor laughing LOL Lots of laughs/Laugh out loud kwim?/iykwim know what I mean?/if you know what I mean fwiw for what it\'s worth jm2c just my 2 cents ATM At the moment IMO/IMHO In my opinion/ In my Honest Opinion/In my humble opinion TIA Thanks in advance Home Education (I\'ll put them in alphabetical order) FLL First Language Lessons HS/HSing Homeschool/Homeschooling MUS Math U See PP Phonics Pathways SoTW Story of the World TT Teaching Textbooks WTM/TWTM The Well Trained Mind

[sarahtee]

DS/DD/DC Dear daughter/Dear son/ Dear children DSS/DSD Dear Step son/daughter DH/DW/DP Dear Husband/Dear Wife/Dear Partner XH Ex husband MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL Mother/Father/Sister/Brother In law ROFL Roll on floor laughing LOL Lots of laughs/Laugh out loud kwim?/iykwim know what I mean?/if you know what I mean fwiw for what it\'s worth jm2c just my 2 cents ATM At the moment IME In my experience IMO/IMHO In my opinion/ In my Honest Opinion/In my humble opinion TIA Thanks in advance YMMV your mileage may vary (ie your experience may differ or it may not work the same for you) Home Education (I\'ll put them in alphabetical order) FLL First Language Lessons HS/HSing Homeschool/Homeschooling MUS Math U See PP Phonics Pathways SL Sonlight SoTW Story of the World TT Teaching Textbooks WTM/TWTM The Well Trained Mind

[OldSchoolGeek]

FIAR (Five In A Row) HEN HEA BM (blackine masters. Or is that BLM?)

[Jenni]

O0 Great Idea!! At 3.40am I can\'t think of any others..... :2funny: Jenni

[alecat]

DS/DD/DC Dear daughter/Dear son/ Dear children DSS/DSD Dear Step son/daughter DH/DW/DP Dear Husband/Dear Wife/Dear Partner XH Ex husband HTH Hope that helps MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL Mother/Father/Sister/Brother In law ROFL Roll on floor laughing LOL Lots of laughs/Laugh out loud kwim?/iykwim know what I mean?/if you know what I mean fwiw for what it\'s worth jm2c just my 2 cents ATM At the moment IME In my experience IMO/IMHO In my opinion/ In my Honest Opinion/In my humble opinion TIA Thanks in advance YMMV your mileage may vary (ie your experience may differ or it may not work the same for you) Home Education (I\'ll put them in alphabetical order) BM (blackine masters. Or is that BLM?) FIAR (Five In A Row) FLL First Language Lessons HEA HEN HS/HSing Homeschool/Homeschooling MUS Math U See PP Phonics Pathways SL Sonlight SoTW Story of the World TT Teaching Textbooks WTM/TWTM The Well Trained Mind ]

[homehandymum]

also KLAs - Key Learning Areas

[alecat]

DS/DD/DC Dear daughter/Dear son/ Dear children DSS/DSD Dear Step son/daughter DH/DW/DP Dear Husband/Dear Wife/Dear Partner XH Ex husband eta edited to add HTH Hope that helps MIL/FIL/SIL/BIL Mother/Father/Sister/Brother In law ROFL Roll on floor laughing LOL Lots of laughs/Laugh out loud kwim?/iykwim know what I mean?/if you know what I mean fwiw for what it\'s worth jm2c just my 2 cents ATM At the moment IME In my experience IMO/IMHO In my opinion/ In my Honest Opinion/In my humble opinion TIA Thanks in advance YMMV your mileage may vary (ie your experience may differ or it may not work the same for you) Home Education (I\'ll put them in alphabetical order) BM (blackine masters. Or is that BLM?) FIAR (Five In A Row) FLL First Language Lessons HEA HEN HS/HSing Homeschool/Homeschooling KLAs - Key Learning Areas MUS Math U See PP Phonics Pathways SL Sonlight SoTW Story of the World TT Teaching Textbooks WTM/TWTM The Well Trained Mind

[Joanne]

Bumped for Bella.

Hmm, this didn't format well in the changeover. I'd love to tidy it up a bit but I've got.... to go fold some clothes.

[keptwoman]

I've reformated it and put all the acronyms in the first post, plus added a few. Feel free to keep adding more and I'll just keep updating the first post.

[joan]

Thanks so much for the explaination of all the acronyms, greatly appreciated. One question though, what is PM? In the rockpool not back to school day it says to PM you, I assume this means post message. In any forum? I don't see where I should post when I am reading the info.

Sorry I never really bothered with forums before, didn't realize how useful they were.
TIA
Joan

[rialla]

joan, on 10 December 2009 - 06:29 PM, said:

Thanks so much for the explaination of all the acronyms, greatly appreciated. One question though, what is PM? In the rockpool not back to school day it says to PM you, I assume this means post message. In any forum? I don't see where I should post when I am reading the info.

Sorry I never really bothered with forums before, didn't realize how useful they were.
TIA
Joan

Hi Joan

PM stands for Private Message. You can click the little envelope picture under someone's name and that will let you send a message just to them.

Hope that makes sense

[Bella01]

Oh yipee thanks for this!

OK now I'm going to do some reading to find some things i don't know the meaning of, and bring them back to here.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the three RRR's.?

[Jenni]

Bella01, on 10 December 2009 - 08:10 PM, said:

Oh yipee thanks for this!

OK now I'm going to do some reading to find some things i don't know the meaning of, and bring them back to here.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the three RRR's.?

Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic.





Jenni

[Joanne]

LOF Life of Fred.
Took me a while to figure out what LOF had to do with Maths!

[joan]

Thanks for that! Yes it made complete sence

[kyles978]

American to Australian

Kindergarten = 1st year of school
Seasons start on the soltice and exquinox = Seansons start on the first day of the month
High school = Grades 9 - 12

[fliztea]

*Bump*

[Renascent College]

Ohhhh.............. I always thought DD meant Darling Daughter - etc
I'm still going to think of it this way :-)