Abbreviations Used in Posts - Submit here
I recently joined and was amazed by all of the abbreviations people were using in their messages; it was like another language.
Then I noticed other people were having the same difficulty I was in decyphering some of them, leading to some rather hilarious ideas.
Thus this thread: to help us make sense out of all the abbreviations. Heck, supposeedly the US military has a dictionary for all of the ones it uses. We need one, too.
My hope would be that there will be lots of serious submissions and that the silly ones are posted too, as they can be quite creative and entertaining.
As the thread progressees, I will try to "sum up" the serious ones for the newbies out there, and laugh along at the crazy ones.
Let's have some fun, and get some work done.8)
Then I noticed other people were having the same difficulty I was in decyphering some of them, leading to some rather hilarious ideas.
Thus this thread: to help us make sense out of all the abbreviations. Heck, supposeedly the US military has a dictionary for all of the ones it uses. We need one, too.
My hope would be that there will be lots of serious submissions and that the silly ones are posted too, as they can be quite creative and entertaining.
As the thread progressees, I will try to "sum up" the serious ones for the newbies out there, and laugh along at the crazy ones.
Let's have some fun, and get some work done.8)
Comments
IMO - in my opinion
IMHO - in my humble opinion
FYI - for your information
MS - Microshaft
CE- consumer electronics
AIO - All-In-One (like the iMac)
FTFF - Fix The efffin Finder
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
... wow, that was lame
AS = AppleScript (sometimes, otherwise it might just be "as". As in "as in").
RTFM = Read The Fscking Manual.
OMG = Oh My God! Boobies!
FUD - Fear, uncertainty and doubt
followed closely by PLBKAC Problem Lies Between Keyboard
And Chair
btw, here's a pretty darn big list
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/abbrev.html
AFZ\t\tAcronym Free Zone
IANLOL - I am not laughing out loud.
STFU - Shut the fuck up.
STFUOIWSIFY - Shut the fuck up or I will shut it for you.
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get (GUI metaphor)
YGWYPF - You get what you pay for (caveat emptor metaphor)
LOL / ROTFL - Laugh out loud / Rolling on the floor laughing
(to express animated laughter, see also)
not very common, but its important to have these kinds of phrases covered in this word-y book you speak of.
TANSTAAFL - There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
Originally posted by livatlantis
Mac = Macintosh by Apple Computers
...as opposed to...
MAC = Media Access Control, a unique identification assigned to one (and usually only one) device on the internet.
Mac is the computer
MAC is the protocol
Everyone clear?
Originally posted by CosmoNut
...as opposed to...
MAC = Media Access Control, a unique identification assigned to one (and usually only one) device on the internet.
Mac is the computer
MAC is the protocol
Everyone clear?
Man, I wish that one could be branded onto the brains of every internet user.....
Really drives me crazy.
Hopefully this one doesn't come up too often in your conversations.
Originally posted by shetline
YTRCBPAYOHATWTL = Your test results came back positive, and you only have about three weeks to live.
Hopefully this one doesn't come up too often in your conversations.
Wouldn't that need to be YTRCBPAYOHA3WTL since "T" could be two, three, ten, twelve, thirteen, twenty, twenty-one.....
Originally posted by CosmoNut
Wouldn't that need to be YTRCBPAYOHA3WTL
I don't know why, but there's something distinctly cyrillic about that acronym. That is, if I were walking around the former USSR, I wouldn't be surprised if I saw a big red sign glaring at me with:
YTRCBPAYOHA3WTL!
Originally posted by Splinemodel
YTRCBPAYOHA3WTL!
<downs a big gulp of your vodka, hands you your bottle back>
ДA! УTЯCBPAУOHA3ШTЛ!