• PixeIOrange@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 months ago

    zB = zum Beispiel = for example

    usw = und so weiter = and so forth

    etc = etcetera = and so forth

    we love shortings too

    • schnurrito
      6·
      6 months ago

      of course; all of these are very much pre-Internet ones and don’t correspond to any Internet slang in English

    • lud@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 months ago

      Et cetera is latin and “etc” is commonly used in English and quite a few other languages as well.