"GratZ"

[Manique]

Ok this is a silly Thread but i think it has its meaning...
why do people say "gratz" and not "grats", afterall its an abreviation of conGRATualionS right ?

rep+ if im correct or if im not

[Jimmy B]

Some people say grats, but gratz is more common. Both are made-up shortened versions of congratulations, so there's no 'correct' way of saying it. The z version is more common though, often shortened to gz in events to save on typing time.

[Manique]

yeah i have to admit
I might have started this thread criticizing but i do use "gz" sometimes when im burried with mobs
that's why i said its silly lol, but well its kind of funny, im the only so far that i know that says "grats" if i'm not hunting

[kosmos]

could be poor net speak. alot of things are miss spelled from lazy abbreviation's etc. maybe there is a direct reason

[Cytheria]

There are so many abbreviation's in games now days one of the ones that always stumped me was lolz. I never understood the z at the end. I have asked so many people that I seen use it if they even knew what the z meant. Nobody could tell me. I told them they might not want to use it if they don't know what it means. I said that as a joke and they all stopped using it. I was in my college English class and I heard a guy verbally say lolz. I burst into laughter because all the people that I asked what the z was had no clue. My English teacher asked me what was so funny and I told her. All she said was "ok" as she looked at the guy that said lolz. 2 weeks later she called me to the front of the class to discuss it with her in front of the class. It turned out she spent 2 weeks trying to find out what the z stood for and was unable to find out. So she asked me. I told her I had no clue thats why I am always asking others. So does anyone actually know what the Z stands for?

[Leandro Kun]

Originally Posted by Cytheria

There are so many abbreviation's in games now days one of the ones that always stumped me was lolz. I never understood the z at the end. I have asked so many people that I seen use it if they even knew what the z meant. Nobody could tell me. I told them they might not want to use it if they don't know what it means. I said that as a joke and they all stopped using it. I was in my college English class and I heard a guy verbally say lolz. I burst into laughter because all the people that I asked what the z was had no clue. My English teacher asked me what was so funny and I told her. All she said was "ok" as she looked at the guy that said lolz. 2 weeks later she called me to the front of the class to discuss it with her in front of the class. It turned out she spent 2 weeks trying to find out what the z stood for and was unable to find out. So she asked me. I told her I had no clue thats why I am always asking others. So does anyone actually know what the Z stands for?

Zippy? (to short)

[Harvest]

Why is it AFK when it should be AFC? I thought I was bad at spelling!

[Hrafninn]

Originally Posted by Harvest

Why is it AFK when it should be AFC? I thought I was bad at spelling!

Away From Keyboard?

[EggRollOneDolla]

So can we have a thread within a thread?? Like what other words have been abbriavated twice due to lazyness??

Congradulations --> Grat(s/z) --> Gz

[Immortal]

gz means congratulations as much as lol means laugh out loud

i.e. neither have the same meaning they were originally abbreviated for - they are their own word