�Personals� redirects here. For other uses, see Personal.A personal or personal ad is an item or notice traditionally in the newspaper, similar to a classified ad but personal in nature. With its rise in popularity, the World Wide Web has also become a common medium for personals, commonly referred to as online dating. Personals are generally meant to find romance or friendship, and usually include a basic description of the person posting it, and their interests.Due to newspaper prices being based on characters or lines of text, a jargon of abbreviations, acronyms and code words arose in personals, and have carried over to the internet. The most common are:A: Asian--for 2nd letter of a three-letter acronym (TLA)B: Bisexual--for 1st letter of a TLAB: Black--for 2nd letter of a TLAF: Female--for 3rd letter of a TLAG: Gay--for 1st letter of a TLAJ: Jewish or Japanese--for 2nd letter of a TLAL: Latino or Latina--for 2nd letter of a TLAM: Male--for 3rd letter of a TLAM: Man--used before or after 4T: Transgender--used before or after 4W: White--for 2nd letter of a TLAW: Woman--used before or after 44: means "for", "seeking", "desires", etc.420 (or 4:20): refers to cannabis (see 420 (drug culture))B&D (also B/D): Bondage and

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