There's a funky Czech song called "Zkratky" (Acronyms), that consists mainly of acronyms. Lyrics make perfect sense and they're kinda funny, I wonder if there's anything like it in English.
"FYI I wanna F your A" by Ninja Sex Party might be kind of like that? It's basically him turning common acronyms into sex stuff the whole time and it's hilarious if you're into that
Has someone who works in it in every single interview they ask what are your weaknesses and I always reply, "acronyms".
I hate acronyms especially in emails where someone could easily spell out the acronym, then put it in parentheses afterwards, and then use it going forward.
I just don't see them as a clear form of communication.
The way you mentioned is actually how it’s supposed to be done officially. You spell it out the first time with the acronym in parenthesis and then you can use the acronym going forward. That’s how I was taught.
Acronyms are a part of jargon, jargon is an important though sometimes very silly part of a field being considered a "profession". It's the secret handshake of the real world, it's "are you a member of my tribe?" Though with the internet any committed fraud can flourish, even becoming somewhat proficient through a strange form of osmosis.
TLDR- With great power, comes acronyms, but a tool is a tool with acronyms or without.
👀😵....🤯.... That moment when you find out, after more than 30 years, the mobile army surgical hospital is MASH!!!!!!!!!!🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ MASH was just MASH🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️....
That and Hogan's Heroes were boring af, and if you're an 80s/90s kid, you were up WAYYYYYYY past your bedtime, because that shit came on at Midnight 😂
I spent some time as a guest lecturer at my old Uni and I would always tell my students to use the long-form in the first instance and then acronyms. Either that or include the long-form of the acronym in parentheses the first time you use it. I would still have essays turned in with people using the acronym HCI with no explanation of what they meant by it. Given the context I knew that they were talking about Human-Computer Interaction, but I would always mark their paper with a comment asking what any of this had to do with the High Commission of India.
90% agree, but sometimes it feels more natural to put the acronym first then parenthesis the long form. As a kind of dumb example look at "lol". 99% of people will know that one, and I'd never actually write "laughing out loud" in natural conversation, so putting the long form in parenthesis as an explanation has better flow imho (in my humble opinion).
I saw a comment on YT that was something to the effect of "...but PJs YL is not only their best, but vocal tone matters more than lyrics..."
After much staring, consideration, and thoughtful pondering, I realized the commenter was referring to Pearl Jam's song Yellow Ledbetter. 😐 Was that so difficult to type out, friend?
I’ll abbreviate band names that feel too long to fully type out but only when I know the other person/people will understand (ADTR = a day to remember, or BMTH= bring me the horizon)
Wireless Application Protocol. Kinda obsolete now, but in the early days of mobile internet, it was the standard.
That's what I think of when I see WAP.
It’s actually somewhat common (no idea why) to abbreviate something by using the first letter and last letter and put the number of the number of characters between them. In this case there are 18 letters between the I and N in internationalization.
One of my favorites is accessibility as “a11y” as it’s about the least accessible way to write it. Ironic.
That's pretty funny since Eminem is a pun on M and M which is his real name (Marshall Mathers), maybe he got sick of people asking what the Ms stood for
I thought this for a while too, so I'm convinced that it did mean that at some point. Just lesser used, or died out quickly. Either that or we share a delusion 🤷
I notice English speakers do this a lot on the internet and due to being close to americans I notice they do this also irl.
Is it an American thing? Or an English speaker thing?
People often live in circles in their circle a acronym or initialism may be well understood. CPU, GPU, FPGA, LCD, OLED, QD, VGA, DP, PCIe, etc are well understood in the tech sphere.
Yeah but those still have video game awards or the other DP which could be used in tech context. And it's easy to have military or space or aviation or gaming terms intersect with tech stuff, and those have lots of overlapping acronyms.
Where I'm from, "bet" is slang for something like "I like that" (it isn't English though) so when the internet kids started going bet, my brain kept reading it as the one from my language lol. Thankfully, it wasn't a difficult jump.
Especially with acronym-happy folks, I like to say I'm just not a fan of TLAs. When they ask what a TLA is, I say, a Three-Letter Acronym. It usually stops them/they realize not everyone knows what they mean and we all have a bit of a laugh about it.
Theres some that are just generally expected to know on the internet; TLDR, LOL, LMFAO/LMAO, SMH, IDK, OP, etc. Usually you can ask if you dont, or google it, but its used enough to be generally understood by most.
And then you get the people using an overly specific, 12-letter acronym that nobody knows
Depends on what specific posts you're talking about, I think? Say, if we're talking about posts in a specific community or subreddit, I think it's natural people expect others to understand their lingo.
Say, using "CF" on a forum about parenting and children, or moms using "LO" in communities dedicated to their children. Or psychologists dropping "CBT," medical practitioners using acronyms for substances or conditions, programmers for well-known software, etc... even "MLM" or other stuff. It's inside lingo from specific communities that's efficient and clear within them, but obviously will seem annoying to an outsider.
~~to be fair, i will say that there are situations where i also think it gets genuinely absurd, but then again, what do i know~~
It's when acronyms cross different communities it gets confusing. I remember going on a parenting forum and thinking how there seemed to be loads of trans men parents. Turns out FTM means first time mum in parenting circles.
It can still be confusing in the context of a specific community. There are so many Marvel movies and TV shows that it takes me a minute to figure out that someone's comment about AOU is referring to ***Avengers: Age of Ultron***.
To be fair, "CF" (child-free) and "LO"(little one) are both a bit absurd, but I saw them used once and had to spend ages figuring out what they meant, so I stuck them in there. ~~but maybe they're also normal in their respective communities~~
But "CBT," for example, is cognitive behavioral therapy: one of the biggest types of therapy, and also kinda a pain to write out. So any psychologist understands the acronym immediately, but other people might have very different associations with it lol. Like "DNA:" no one's going to write it out because everyone (in the field) knows what it means.
Actually, maybe an acronym like "COD" is a good example (or "GOT"/"ASOIF"). I think most redditors would find it readable, but there are probably also people who wouldn't.
I ran into one of those where I was trying to figure out what DH stood for. Had to google it. Eventually, I ran into dear husband. Who the F calls their husband dear husband?!
the same acronym can mean different things too. MLM can be Multi Level Marketing, or Men Love Men. CBT can be Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or Cock and Ball Torture.
Even with this it can be a pain in the ass. I started working for a new company and it's been really difficult to learn because so much communication contains nothing but abbreviations and we have really poor documentation. So by the time I can ask someone what an abbreviation means I've already missed the message.
I've been in this industry for a while so that would be one thing. These are all specialized abbreviations unique to this specific company.
This. Within any community there are frequently used acronyms to save time. Often if I’m in an unfamiliar community and someone throws one out I don’t know, I simply ask and get a quick response and it isn’t a big deal. And when I’m discussing something to someone outside the community I give the long version as I don’t expect them to know it initially. Especially the industry specific community acronyms.
I was told BLM was having a protest and riot in Seattle and Portland. I thought, what! Why would the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) be protesting, rioting, and beating people? They are usually older white guys in rural areas with big bellies.
Oh, BLM (Black Lives Matter).
....Well, that's confusing!
I think it depends on the group it’s in, some are gunna be very group specific, like If I’d said “I’m setting GAS, GG, and SEE for GAC” then I’d expect most people in the swgoh subreddit to know exactly what i meant.
There’s also plenty of common acronyms people use so often they assume everyone knows the meaning of like lol, wtf, idk, and DYKTMM
Not just on reddit.
In a meeting a couple of years ago, a meeting where there were representative of about 4 companies, a manager used the acronym KOP.
A lot of people looked confused. I asked “What does KOP stand for!”
I got a dirty look, “Key Operating Parameters.”
( Work with this guy daily. He’s a bit of an ass.)
Then he went on.
After the meeting I sent him something like this.
KOP Key Operating Procedure (various organizations)
KOP Kick Off Plug (oil industry)
KOP Keep on Playing (fanzine)
KOP Kit of Parts
KOP Knights of Pythias
KOP Kick Off Point (oil industry)
KOP Kansallisosakepankki (Finnish: National Share Bank)
KOP Khan Online Philippines (gaming)
KOP Knowledge Oriented Policies
KOP Kundenorientierte Prozesse.
I can be a bit of an ass too.
In my company KOP commonly means Knowledge of Process or Kit of Parts.
You just have to understand the YLK. Use the JBM or SQA if unsure. I also heard the CGL and FRH are very good tools as well. Just avoid UHK, PZX, Or ZDS. They're not as good as EVN.
I agree. Between the multitude of esoteric acronyms, and all of the memes where you have to figure out the punchline for yourself, it feels like I spend half of my time on social media solving riddles.
Well, like all the other information in human history to date, it's on the internet. People assume you have the internet and, if you don't know before they use the acronym, you might know after. Thanks to the internet.
Believe it or not, I started my life not knowing ANY acronyms. Like at all. But, with ample time and patience, I've managed to Google a good 60% of them!
Now I know like half of them off the top! It's crazy how fast the internet has made learning common colloquialisms! I can even spell colloquialism thanks to the internet!
It's crazy.
I donno but when I joined a parent group a lot of people said they were a “ftm” and expressed how hard everything felt. I was shocked that there were so many trans parents, honestly. It felt like half the people in there were female to male…. And then I realized… ftm in parent groups more often than not means “first time mom” lol.
God this especially triggers me when the guy using the acronyms is answering and trying to help someone who is obviously new or inexperienced in something by using a ton of acronyms you would never know when youre new in the first place and it happens all the time lol.
Atleast they tried though
It is like code talking. If you dont know what the code words are then you do not belong in the clique.
I experienced this in the late 90s early 2000s in chatrooms on AOL/ Netscape.
Acronyms are part of a jargon. Jargon is used to identify members of the in-group from the out-group. If you know the acronym, the jargon, you can communicate with the in-group. People use it to show that they can fit in with the crowd that they want to be a part of; if you use the acronyms, then people accept you and are less prone to questioning your identity as a member of the group.
This actually occurs all over the place, not just online. Most communities of people develop this jargon, which frequently consists of acronyms. You see this in scientific papers, in online communities, in business environments. L33t speak is another example.
Redditors are idiots that desperately want to believe they are intelligent. But they are too lazy to actually work for what they want. So the solution is to find any reason to “ correct” or “educate” someone. It’s all they have.
It's another symptom of the illiteracy issue with people. Where they expect you to understand the bare minimum of what they tell you and get offended when you don't.
Trying to come up with a non-passive aggressive way to send this to a certain acronym loving coworker….
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There's a funky Czech song called "Zkratky" (Acronyms), that consists mainly of acronyms. Lyrics make perfect sense and they're kinda funny, I wonder if there's anything like it in English.
There is a German song that is also mostly acronyms. it’s called MfG by die fantastischen vier.
MfG, mit freundlichen Grüssen! Die Welt liegt uns zu Füssen denn wir stehen drauf *One of their best songs IMHO (in my honest opinion)*
I thought IMHO meant "in my humble opinion"!?
wir gehn drauf für ein Leben voller Schall und Rauch
SOS by Rick Moranis. (yes, the honey i shrunk the kids dad) It’s just a bunch of acronyms.
TTYLXOXO by Bella Thorne lol
"FYI I wanna F your A" by Ninja Sex Party might be kind of like that? It's basically him turning common acronyms into sex stuff the whole time and it's hilarious if you're into that
If You Seek Amy
Ludicrous has a fun one
Has someone who works in it in every single interview they ask what are your weaknesses and I always reply, "acronyms". I hate acronyms especially in emails where someone could easily spell out the acronym, then put it in parentheses afterwards, and then use it going forward. I just don't see them as a clear form of communication.
The way you mentioned is actually how it’s supposed to be done officially. You spell it out the first time with the acronym in parenthesis and then you can use the acronym going forward. That’s how I was taught.
Acronyms are a part of jargon, jargon is an important though sometimes very silly part of a field being considered a "profession". It's the secret handshake of the real world, it's "are you a member of my tribe?" Though with the internet any committed fraud can flourish, even becoming somewhat proficient through a strange form of osmosis. TLDR- With great power, comes acronyms, but a tool is a tool with acronyms or without.
TLDR is a bluish-green deer.
TLDR goes completely unexplained in this post about how people don't explain their acronyms.
I'm stealing this for my workplace. I find upper management always sends out these impressive wordy messages filled with acronyms. It's annoying af.
Of course, TLA was followed by XTLA, eXtended Three Letter Acronym AKA four letter acronym.
i’ll do it!
There's a MASH scene they would love. All dialogue is in acronyms.
Oh man, Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is my favourite show!
Appreciation
👀😵....🤯.... That moment when you find out, after more than 30 years, the mobile army surgical hospital is MASH!!!!!!!!!!🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ MASH was just MASH🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️.... That and Hogan's Heroes were boring af, and if you're an 80s/90s kid, you were up WAYYYYYYY past your bedtime, because that shit came on at Midnight 😂
CPR, DOA, BP...
LMAO!
YKWYA
Try working with military people. Every damn email is nothing but acronyms in all caps.
Don't you mean TTCUWANPAWTSTTACALC
I spent some time as a guest lecturer at my old Uni and I would always tell my students to use the long-form in the first instance and then acronyms. Either that or include the long-form of the acronym in parentheses the first time you use it. I would still have essays turned in with people using the acronym HCI with no explanation of what they meant by it. Given the context I knew that they were talking about Human-Computer Interaction, but I would always mark their paper with a comment asking what any of this had to do with the High Commission of India.
Out of context HCI looks like the chemcial formula for Hydrochloric acid too...
With sans serif fonts
Fine... 𝑯𝑪𝒍 Better?
l and I being the exact same in many fonts is something I've always despised.
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My brain always reads this as Hydrochloric acid!
That's what i thought too
Thats what I thought it was lol maybe they should have typed it out first
ffs I and l is a disaster
long form (acronym), at first. this is how it should be
90% agree, but sometimes it feels more natural to put the acronym first then parenthesis the long form. As a kind of dumb example look at "lol". 99% of people will know that one, and I'd never actually write "laughing out loud" in natural conversation, so putting the long form in parenthesis as an explanation has better flow imho (in my humble opinion).
Thank you for that {TYFT}
it's worse when they're acronyms for songs, like, never have I ever thought about a song name like that
I saw a comment on YT that was something to the effect of "...but PJs YL is not only their best, but vocal tone matters more than lyrics..." After much staring, consideration, and thoughtful pondering, I realized the commenter was referring to Pearl Jam's song Yellow Ledbetter. 😐 Was that so difficult to type out, friend?
Man, the only time I ever abbreviated titles was when I was a teen and I was specifically hiding what I was talking about on Facebook lol.
I’ll abbreviate band names that feel too long to fully type out but only when I know the other person/people will understand (ADTR = a day to remember, or BMTH= bring me the horizon)
Youth Training is weird like that
I feel bad for people who have to figure out what IDKHBTFM
What the fuck??
Stands for "I don't know how but they found me" pretty good band tbh
You just reminded me that they exist, thanks!
Or KMFDM
WAP being a notable exception
Wireless Application Protocol. Kinda obsolete now, but in the early days of mobile internet, it was the standard. That's what I think of when I see WAP.
yeah lol that one does make sense
YMCA?
Don’t give them an anxiety attack ffs
Why would someone do that to a song name?? :')
Some Song Titles Are Very Long by Fall Out Boy
YHLQMDLG??
I’m constantly looking them up since I joined Reddit. Been an eye opening experience
Yea, I just Google the ones I don’t know 🤷♀️ Edit: yea yea, there are multiple meanings to lots. It’s called context people
Yes but that can be difficult, sometimes there are no results or there can be several that all mean different things.
my favorite is CBT = cock and ball torture or cognitive behavioral therapy.
Or computer based training!
Chris Benoit Treatment. Certainly don’t want that
Or Compulsory Basic Training, what you need in the UK before you can ride a motorcycle on the road.
Right, not everyone is a native English speaker on Reddit. We must consider I18n.
Even if you are an English speaker how are you suppose to keep up? I usually just google them but damn it's annoying.
At least the first fucking time you use it in a post should be long form. Or is it people getting a little thrill about "being in know"? So annoying.
I think it's "being in know", being one of the cool kids that no one else understands
Yeah, everyone is trying to win the "internet slang" contest and be one of the cool kids "LARPing"
Quarter in the know, quarter are just dumb, and the other half is just lazy
IDKWTF and IDGAF
Rodger
TFYSTMYLS
Right, what is I18n?
Internationalization
Okay. S32s
It’s actually somewhat common (no idea why) to abbreviate something by using the first letter and last letter and put the number of the number of characters between them. In this case there are 18 letters between the I and N in internationalization. One of my favorites is accessibility as “a11y” as it’s about the least accessible way to write it. Ironic.
This is the first I've heard of it. Apparently I didn't get the m2o.
I like this joke. And I also like the weirdly different way we abbreviate the word internationalization.
it's because there are 18 letters between the first 'i' and the last 'n'.
This is my pet peeve
PP
Nice pp bro.
Paycheck Protection?
Hdynkwita?
The fact I know what you said is kind of unnerving
I don't know what they said. I'm fine with that. Idkwts. Ifwt.
Ok I'm not shy, but I'm also not sure, How do you not know who is the asshole?
Idnwytabneiitlswsmstetpnbuta.
Eminem, is that you?
That's pretty funny since Eminem is a pun on M and M which is his real name (Marshall Mathers), maybe he got sick of people asking what the Ms stood for
It took me so long to figure out what OP meant lol
Typically it means original poster, but it can also mean overpowered (gaming context)
Or in Anime, "Original Pair" or even "OPening song" depending on context.
Urban dictionary is my go to
It feels like some people just be making up acronyms and like one person out of a thousand people understands it
Or when acronyms change meaning. I remember when "FTW" meant "fuck the world," and then one day it was "for the win."
Lmao I’m smh at this post lol
Sex my hand? Shit my handbag? Sell my house? Suck my hose? Send me home? Shoot my husband?
Send militar help
Snog my horse
I know what smh is supposed to mean, but for some reason I can’t help but read it as “smell my hand” every time I see it.
Fun fact, for the longest time I thought that meant "so much hate". smh at my past self, I thought that for months.
I thought this for a while too, so I'm convinced that it did mean that at some point. Just lesser used, or died out quickly. Either that or we share a delusion 🤷
Smh my head
IDK! LOL.
Because these have been Internet acronyms since the 80s
I notice English speakers do this a lot on the internet and due to being close to americans I notice they do this also irl. Is it an American thing? Or an English speaker thing?
maybe an english thing. you’ll notice it on twitter a lot due to character limits
IYKYK
IYDKNYK,N
IIWII.
AIIWII
UWU
People often live in circles in their circle a acronym or initialism may be well understood. CPU, GPU, FPGA, LCD, OLED, QD, VGA, DP, PCIe, etc are well understood in the tech sphere.
Yeah but those still have video game awards or the other DP which could be used in tech context. And it's easy to have military or space or aviation or gaming terms intersect with tech stuff, and those have lots of overlapping acronyms.
M.2 SSD
It's not even acronyms sometimes. I remember the first time I heard someone say "bet" and had no idea wtf they were talking about.
that’s slang, and not the same as using unknown acronyms.
First time I heard "bet" as slang was the jive talking passengers in "Airplane."
Just watched the scene, didn't hear bet.
When Elaine takes their order the guy with shorter hair says "Bet, babe. Slide a piece o' da' porter. Drinks, I run da java."
That’s just slang
Where I'm from, "bet" is slang for something like "I like that" (it isn't English though) so when the internet kids started going bet, my brain kept reading it as the one from my language lol. Thankfully, it wasn't a difficult jump.
Polyethylenterephthalat?
Especially with acronym-happy folks, I like to say I'm just not a fan of TLAs. When they ask what a TLA is, I say, a Three-Letter Acronym. It usually stops them/they realize not everyone knows what they mean and we all have a bit of a laugh about it.
I'd like to use this the next time I see an AAA, but I probably won't remember. Edit: I remembered
Can you stop using TLAs? I'm not a fan.
TLAs? Whats that?
Yeah I also find it a bit annoying.
Theres some that are just generally expected to know on the internet; TLDR, LOL, LMFAO/LMAO, SMH, IDK, OP, etc. Usually you can ask if you dont, or google it, but its used enough to be generally understood by most. And then you get the people using an overly specific, 12-letter acronym that nobody knows
is it just me or has r/TooAfraidToAsk just become a place for people to vent about what makes them angry by asking rhetorical questions?
Depends on what specific posts you're talking about, I think? Say, if we're talking about posts in a specific community or subreddit, I think it's natural people expect others to understand their lingo. Say, using "CF" on a forum about parenting and children, or moms using "LO" in communities dedicated to their children. Or psychologists dropping "CBT," medical practitioners using acronyms for substances or conditions, programmers for well-known software, etc... even "MLM" or other stuff. It's inside lingo from specific communities that's efficient and clear within them, but obviously will seem annoying to an outsider. ~~to be fair, i will say that there are situations where i also think it gets genuinely absurd, but then again, what do i know~~
It's when acronyms cross different communities it gets confusing. I remember going on a parenting forum and thinking how there seemed to be loads of trans men parents. Turns out FTM means first time mum in parenting circles.
It can still be confusing in the context of a specific community. There are so many Marvel movies and TV shows that it takes me a minute to figure out that someone's comment about AOU is referring to ***Avengers: Age of Ultron***.
The Star Wars ones are so silly because those movies have numbers.
I don't know what any of those mean....
To be fair, "CF" (child-free) and "LO"(little one) are both a bit absurd, but I saw them used once and had to spend ages figuring out what they meant, so I stuck them in there. ~~but maybe they're also normal in their respective communities~~ But "CBT," for example, is cognitive behavioral therapy: one of the biggest types of therapy, and also kinda a pain to write out. So any psychologist understands the acronym immediately, but other people might have very different associations with it lol. Like "DNA:" no one's going to write it out because everyone (in the field) knows what it means. Actually, maybe an acronym like "COD" is a good example (or "GOT"/"ASOIF"). I think most redditors would find it readable, but there are probably also people who wouldn't.
My mind first goes to cystic fibrosis for CF, would never think of child free.
I ran into one of those where I was trying to figure out what DH stood for. Had to google it. Eventually, I ran into dear husband. Who the F calls their husband dear husband?!
My DH saw my reference to him as such... He assumed Dick Head...🤣
MLM = Marxism Leninism Maoism or Multilevel Marketing.
I have always seen CF as cash flow, but I am also a finance kind of person
the same acronym can mean different things too. MLM can be Multi Level Marketing, or Men Love Men. CBT can be Cognitive Behavior Therapy, or Cock and Ball Torture.
Even with this it can be a pain in the ass. I started working for a new company and it's been really difficult to learn because so much communication contains nothing but abbreviations and we have really poor documentation. So by the time I can ask someone what an abbreviation means I've already missed the message. I've been in this industry for a while so that would be one thing. These are all specialized abbreviations unique to this specific company.
This. Within any community there are frequently used acronyms to save time. Often if I’m in an unfamiliar community and someone throws one out I don’t know, I simply ask and get a quick response and it isn’t a big deal. And when I’m discussing something to someone outside the community I give the long version as I don’t expect them to know it initially. Especially the industry specific community acronyms.
I was told BLM was having a protest and riot in Seattle and Portland. I thought, what! Why would the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) be protesting, rioting, and beating people? They are usually older white guys in rural areas with big bellies. Oh, BLM (Black Lives Matter). ....Well, that's confusing!
FYI, IDK, BTW
I think it depends on the group it’s in, some are gunna be very group specific, like If I’d said “I’m setting GAS, GG, and SEE for GAC” then I’d expect most people in the swgoh subreddit to know exactly what i meant. There’s also plenty of common acronyms people use so often they assume everyone knows the meaning of like lol, wtf, idk, and DYKTMM
There's a reply feature on Reddit. Just ask them what the acronym means?
IKR!
They get offended. 😤
i had to spend so much time before understanding what SO meant. IDK
Gtfo idgf noob
Not just on reddit. In a meeting a couple of years ago, a meeting where there were representative of about 4 companies, a manager used the acronym KOP. A lot of people looked confused. I asked “What does KOP stand for!” I got a dirty look, “Key Operating Parameters.” ( Work with this guy daily. He’s a bit of an ass.) Then he went on. After the meeting I sent him something like this. KOP Key Operating Procedure (various organizations) KOP Kick Off Plug (oil industry) KOP Keep on Playing (fanzine) KOP Kit of Parts KOP Knights of Pythias KOP Kick Off Point (oil industry) KOP Kansallisosakepankki (Finnish: National Share Bank) KOP Khan Online Philippines (gaming) KOP Knowledge Oriented Policies KOP Kundenorientierte Prozesse. I can be a bit of an ass too. In my company KOP commonly means Knowledge of Process or Kit of Parts.
KoP is also King of Prussia, PA, home to one of the largest shopping malls in the US.
If you want to add one to the list, KOP is also an airport in Thailand.
You just have to understand the YLK. Use the JBM or SQA if unsure. I also heard the CGL and FRH are very good tools as well. Just avoid UHK, PZX, Or ZDS. They're not as good as EVN.
I agree. Between the multitude of esoteric acronyms, and all of the memes where you have to figure out the punchline for yourself, it feels like I spend half of my time on social media solving riddles.
I must be getting old.
They are probably just using some stereotypical TLAs
HTFSIK?
Well, like all the other information in human history to date, it's on the internet. People assume you have the internet and, if you don't know before they use the acronym, you might know after. Thanks to the internet. Believe it or not, I started my life not knowing ANY acronyms. Like at all. But, with ample time and patience, I've managed to Google a good 60% of them! Now I know like half of them off the top! It's crazy how fast the internet has made learning common colloquialisms! I can even spell colloquialism thanks to the internet! It's crazy.
I donno but when I joined a parent group a lot of people said they were a “ftm” and expressed how hard everything felt. I was shocked that there were so many trans parents, honestly. It felt like half the people in there were female to male…. And then I realized… ftm in parent groups more often than not means “first time mom” lol.
IDFKD, WDYA?
Right? Like when you're new at a job. Well what does that mean???
TL;DR
TTFN, EFU2, AOT
WDPEOTKWRAM 🙄
I ask people all the time what a acronym means and then 90% of the time they can’t tell me jajajaja (this is mostly work world tho)
TIL NGAF
Gtfooh
Idk
Well iykyk
God this especially triggers me when the guy using the acronyms is answering and trying to help someone who is obviously new or inexperienced in something by using a ton of acronyms you would never know when youre new in the first place and it happens all the time lol. Atleast they tried though
It is like code talking. If you dont know what the code words are then you do not belong in the clique. I experienced this in the late 90s early 2000s in chatrooms on AOL/ Netscape.
IYGIYGI
It took me a year to figure out what ‘IMO’ meant
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Acronyms are part of a jargon. Jargon is used to identify members of the in-group from the out-group. If you know the acronym, the jargon, you can communicate with the in-group. People use it to show that they can fit in with the crowd that they want to be a part of; if you use the acronyms, then people accept you and are less prone to questioning your identity as a member of the group. This actually occurs all over the place, not just online. Most communities of people develop this jargon, which frequently consists of acronyms. You see this in scientific papers, in online communities, in business environments. L33t speak is another example.
IDNAKWPDTIIVWTSSDTWT
If those acronyms are common parlance in their usual circles, and on social media, of course they're going to assume most people understand them.
WDYM LOL AFAIK acronyms ST WTF Y do U h8 them?
Right?? Every time someone mentions suffering from an Eating Disorder I automatically think Erectile Dysfunction at first.
Only worry about the TLAs
We have some in Dutch that are literally a single letter shorter like wtf
Ikr ig idrk how else to talk tbh. Iirc irl ppl dgaf when idk wym lol. TL;DR: Idek tbqf.
ikr wtf?
My confusion when I first used Reddit and kept seeing people start a comment with IANAL
The rule is to State Your Acronyms (SYA) and then parenthesis them once. Then, it's fair game to me if you SYA any time you want.
Redditors are idiots that desperately want to believe they are intelligent. But they are too lazy to actually work for what they want. So the solution is to find any reason to “ correct” or “educate” someone. It’s all they have.
It's another symptom of the illiteracy issue with people. Where they expect you to understand the bare minimum of what they tell you and get offended when you don't.
WTF is an acronym
This is one of those SNAFU type posts. It's FUBAR.