you crazy kids with your slang:

[wisdomeagle]

"bb" as endearment: does it stand for "best beloved" or something else?

Comments

[tresa-cho.livejournal.com]

bb = behbeh = baby. :D

[wisdomeagle]

I never would've guessed that.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I think I've seen it used as Best Beloved aka thefourthvine's partner.

ETA: Nevermind, I take that back. She doesn't use the initials bb, just calls her Best Beloved.

[wisdomeagle]

I've been auto-reading it as "best beloved," but that seems awfully intimate for a random internet endearment. If it is "baby" that makes more sense.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I'd been sort of wondering about "bb" myself, 'cause one of my friends is all into bandom now and peppers her posts with that and I wasn't quite sure how to parse it (an endearment, obv., but y'know).

[Addendum: Can I tag this entry "bandom," or did you actually see the usage elsewhere?]

[wisdomeagle]

I haven't really noticed the demographic of where I've seen it, but if you think it's bandom, go ahead. :)

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

If it's young people using internet slang, it's baby. If it's older people, it might be best beloved, along the lines of DH for dear husband/hubby, DD for dear daughter, DS for dear son, etc.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Also the usage. bb = baby would be direct address to someone, whereas if it were best beloved, it would be referring to a third person.

[rydra_wong]

I've had it translated for me as "best buddy".

[raedbard.livejournal.com]

I figured it as 'baby', as per your first commenter. (The usage bothers the hell out of me for some reason ... )

[rhi-silverflame.livejournal.com]

I'm mostly stuck on ". . . the extra two whole letters were that much of a hardship?"

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

WORD. I thought I was the only person the use of "bb" bothered.

[mayhap]

I always hear it in my brainvoice as BB, as in Red Ryder BB gun, as in "You'll shoot your eye out!"

One day I will vocalize this as an endearment to someone and they will be confused. Or not, since I find that I never, ever use endearments aloud.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

bb = baby

I knew immediately, in terms of context of what someone was writing it, what it meant. Then again, there's a lot of places I go where those kinds of Internet slang is used a lot. Most times used in an affectionate/silly way or in a mocking/macros kind of manner.

[attaining.livejournal.com]

This!