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. Before I dive into the details, take a look at the screenshot click to enlarge : See how these results differ from regular old Google search results?
Finance and MSN Money. As with most things in the knowledge graph, however, this just links you to search results for "sarasota memorial hospital", whose website domain is smh.
Also smh. Lastly there's an app in the itunes store for the Sydney Morning Herald. As you can see a search for 'smh' produces very diverse search results, not only in the organic listings, but in the "intelligent" search results sections - stock info and knowledge graph. I call these "intelligent" because they demonstrate well how Google is attempting to serve up search results in new ways based on its interpretation of search intent.
People usually write about something and then add the acronym "smh" at the end of that sentence. For instance, a person might write "Did you see that movie? The reviews said it told the true story about relationships between men and women.
For instance, "smh "XYZ" movie. When "smh" is written, it expresses that the person feels or felt one or more of the following: disbelief about or negative judgment of what a person has said or done, for example the belief that the person is ignorant, or foolish, or a liar, or racist.
In that regard, it appears to me that "smh" has the same or similar meanings as "kiss teeth" "suck teeth" does among Black people in the Caribbean and in Africa. I think that "kiss teeth", "suck teeth" have and "smh" usually has an element of heightened impatience with the person whose comments or actions caused that person to make that gesture or caused the writer to add "smh" at the end of her or his comments or at the beginning of those comments.
I also believe that the reasons for writing "smh" are quite similar to the reasons someone would do a "side eye" or "eye roll". In addition, writing "smh" might also sometimes be motivated by the same reasons that people lightly smack their forehead with their hand do a "face palm" , although it seems to me that a face palm is usually done because the person is exasperated with his or her foolish, stupid non-serious and non-offensive actions or those types of actions or words that someone else has done or said.
Furthermore, I think that the face palm gesture is one that is most often done by non-Black Americans, and I think mostly Black females- write "eyeroll" or write "side eye" at the end of a sentence the same way and for the same reasons that people- I think at least early on, mostly African American people- wrote "smh". But in contrast to those other gestures, I think that probably few people who write "smh" take the time and use their energy to actually shake their head.
Instead, it's my sense that writing "smh" is a way of conveying the action of shaking one's head and saying "un un un" along with that gesture. I listed above what I believe are main reasons why people write "smh" online or in text messages. Most of the examples from whoissugar's two featured videos in this pancocojams series demonstrate that type of usage of "smh". Unlike "side eye", "eye roll", "kiss teeth", and "suck teeth", "smh" isn't an old-school traditional African Diaspora or African cultural term.
Nor does it appear to be an old school, traditional non-Black term. I don't know when or where "smh" was first used. Here's that question "is smh a black internet slang? The use of the term "message boards" instead of "blogs" provides some clue about when this "asker" saw "smh" used. Yes I know what it means - "shake my head" But it seems as if a large majority of black people say "SMH" on facebook, through text, etc.
Although Facebook began in , I wonder what the research indicates about when a significant number of Facebook users -whatever that percentage would be- were African American. Beecause of the "digital divide", I wouldn't be surprised if that didn't happen until Returning to that Yahoo answers:smh query page, there are six responses to that question "Is smh a Black internet acronym?
Three of the commenters either self-idenfied as Black or their accompanying photograph was of a person who people would usually identify as Black. One of those three commenters indicated that she or he knew about the acronym "smh", but denied that it was or should be associated with Black people. Get over it.. Its just an internet slang.. The speculation and discussion in fact all over the Internet is just based on the media -- it came from the media level. And as a company ourselves.
And the discussion is generally from the media or the Internet users and it's just based on their own speculation or imaginations and there is no ground to those discussions. And from our perspective, we think that's from a global perspective, the regulations Internet content, game or live broadcasting, it will be more and more standardized and rule based and that hasn't changed.
HK is up Reply Replies 3. Is this company named after twins named Billy? Besides hearts and smiley faces, what are the revenue, active user analytics for nexts weeks report? Bilibili is up 8. Price held its own today on low volume, good sign?
Why BILI jumped today? I see no news. Can't be in any Chinese stocks. They are all on there way too being delisted in 2 short yrs.
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