As they become more pervasive, it's going to be important to understand how you can harness the power of "intelligent search results" and use them to your advantage. Ever since I learned this distinction, I take every opportunity to educate others. Break it down Grammar Girl : Initialisms are another type of abbreviation.
They are often confused with acronyms because they are made up of letters, so they look similar, but they can't be pronounced as words. FBI and CIA are examples of initialisms because they're made up of the first letters of F ederal B ureau of I nvestigation and C entral I ntelligence A gency , respectively, but they can't be pronounced as words. I'm leaving "acronym" in the headline because that's what most people believe is correct and will search for , but I hope you've enjoyed your grammar lesson for the day.
It has, however, become increasingly clear that I'm quite out of the loop when it comes to internet shorthand - initialisms and acronyms that allow users to say more with fewer characters. But these days there are so many it can be tough to keep up. But I haven't had one of those "you're old! Via Urban Dictionary : Acronym for 'shake my head' or 'shaking my head.
Sometimes it's modified to 'smfh' or 'smmfh' by those that prefer profanity in their internet acronyms. So there you have it. Now neither you or I will have to pretend to be hip enough to know what these millenials are talking about when we see SMH pop up in our Twitter feeds, Facebook comments or Skype IMs. I always like to examine interesting first page search results whenever I run across them so we can all better understand the direction search is headed.
It might be in response to somebody else's behavior, an event that took place, or the state of a situation. The issue typically involves something that a person wants to respond to but is at a loss for the right words to use. Regardless, in real life, the only appropriate response is to shake your head. Hence the use of SMH as an online response. As an example, let's say that a Twitter user tweeted something about how their favorite sports team just lost a game.
They could add SMH at the end of the tweet to further express their disappointment:. They had it when Pizzaburghenshire made that shot!! In another example, let's say that your teenage son replied with nothing but a simple SMH text message after you messaged him to say that there's absolutely no way you can lend him the car on Saturday for a meet-up with his anime fan club friends.
He's clearly disappointed:. You: "I need the car this Saturday, so you'll have to find another way to get to your weekly Nakuro Dragonflame X meeting. Your son: "SMH". GIFs of people shaking their heads captioned with smh are popular on GIF keyboards, and can be sent via text message or attached to tweets as a reaction image.
SMH is also intensified, most commonly as smdh shaking my damn head but also smfh shaking my fucking head , and smmfh shaking my motherfucking head. Less often, SMH will stand for so much hate , showing or commenting on disdain, or s cratching my head , used for puzzlement. The internet slang is not be confused with the common abbreviation of the Australian newspaper, The Sydney Morning Herald.
This is not meant to be a formal definition of SMH like most terms we define on Dictionary. I am driving SMH. Here, SMH best translates as "while shaking my head. Of note, the word "shaking" is a present participle, making SMH a participle phrase. However, as text speak and internet chat involve so much brevity, SMH is routinely used as a standalone term which is not how participle phrases are typically used. Did you spot a typo?
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