FYI - what does this mean? Interesting facts about the abbreviation
For most people who have passed 30 years, yesand for those who are significantly younger than this category of the population, modern borrowed (most often from English) expressions in the field of Internet resources are incomprehensible. Rather, it can be said that these words, abbreviations and other designations cause inexperienced users to shock, making them feel uncomfortable or feel excessive age pressure. The strength lies in the omission of something important, laziness, the lack of youthful courage and the desire to improve. However, everything is fixable, it is only necessary to show a little interest and the desire to keep up with the times, well, with the youth, of course.
Questions?
The topic, which we will analyze today, will concernthree mysterious and incomprehensible letters. And it's not the letters that some inquisitive readers thought at this moment, and others - FYI. What does it mean? How to decipher a three-letter puzzle? Where can you use such a combination (so that it is appropriate)? The answers to all these questions are below.
Understand in order
In order to understand what this means to FYI, you needturn to the very origins. People always wrote letters to each other: first with a pen on paper, then with a pen, and then via the Internet. By the way, the electronic variant of correspondence is familiar to us for a long time already, and even people of the older generation skillfully use these benefits of civilization.
How does P.S., it is not a secret for anyone, but what does FYI mean? It's a more difficult task. It seems that those who received the letter with a note from these three letters for the first time had to break a lot over the meaning before understanding the meaning. And it is quite simple. The abbreviation FYI means that the interlocutor wants to simply draw your attention to the information written after it. In other words, the three-letter designation calls to read the opponent's opinion, but do not do anything about it. If this explanation is not completely understandable, then we will talk in more detail about FYI decoding in the next paragraph of the article and for an example we will show in which case it is most appropriate to use it.
From English with a concrete meaning
Let's look at three foreign words:
- For, which can be translated from English, as "for" or "to".
- Your - "your", "your".
- Information, literally meaning "information" and sometimes interest ("interesting").
So the capital letters of these English words, thenthere is FYI - this means that the interlocutor made a note with the meaning "for your information" or "you will be interested". Let's look at a living example. Let's say that two buddies are being rewritten, which we will call √1 and √2.
√1: Hi, did you see a new "Mercedes" at the car show?
√2: Hello! FYI, it has 306 horsepower ...
From this simple example it is easy to understand,which means FYI in the letter. And this value remains unchanged both in friendly correspondence and in business. Use it in communication through letters - the best option and the most acceptable.
It is interesting
First abbreviation FYI, which migrated toour life from Canada, used only in electronic correspondence. But then it began to be used almost everywhere, including "Weiber", "Vatsap" and even "VKontakte". And also thanks to the fact that three English letters have become so firmly entrenched on the Internet Olympus, some music collectives began to devote songs to them. Among the pioneers can be noted London performer TroyBoi.
