Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
I hate LFG because gamers can’t agree on how to spell it or what it means… Sometimes it’s spelled LFP, LFF or LFM… And sometimes it means “Looking for Guild”.
Let’s Fucking Go! Let’s Fucking Play! Let’s - oh wait
Isnt LFM looking for member? Like if you have part of a group already together and just need a healer lets say. I’d say its different than LFG which in my mind is a player looking for a group
It does sometimes mean that though it’s more common to see it as just trying to assemble a group. If you’re looking for more you’ll usually use something like LF1M, LF2M etc…
That’s not the experience I have. People will be scolded in chat for using LFM when they have no party already.
Ive only ever seen LFG and LFM in the MMO world
LFG is common enough in online TTRPG spaces, although there it means looking for game instead of guild which I suppose rather proves the above point
LFF, as an example was popular in LOTRO were groups were flavored as fellowships in game.
That’s delightful
BofA
What’s BofA?
It’s related to SugON.
What’s SugON?
SugON Deez nuts.
😔
FTW. For years I thought it meant “Fuck The What”. Even now that’s the first thing that comes to mind and have a hard time remembering the actual meaning.
Fuck the world.
But it’s normally For the win?
After “fuck the what” it started to mean “For the win”. What else is it supposed to be?
I’ve never heard “Fuck the What”, it’s always been “Fuck the World” before also becoming “For the Win” for me.
What else is it supposed to be?
- fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
- ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
- fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
- feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
- feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.
This list gets progressively more FTW.
It means fuck the world. But some jerk made it for the win and ruined all my fun
There’s also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up
It’s used so frequently for offences that I’m not surprised at that.
IKR required a search to figure out. Autocorrect takes care of these typical phrases. Imo the only one I like to use is imo for some reason.
i18n I know it’s not technically an acronym but what a fucking obscure way to write a word that’s going to be constantly around non-english speakers. All the other ones in this family are also quite obnoxious but i18n is especially awful.
Never heard of that one, what is it and when would it be used?
Internationalization, basically making your thing accessible in other languages and cultural customs (like twelve and a half being 12,5 and anything related to fucking dates).
There’s a11y and l10n. What else is there?
Somewhat similar: k8s
It’s a numeronym!
I agree, very weird. I thought i18n was some weird sound thing that I hadn’t figured out yet. “‘eye-eighteen-ehn’ isn’t too far from ‘internationalization’, I guess”
CAPTCHA is pretty bad, apparently it’s Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
Source: http://www.captcha.net/
Edit: I also dislike www, it’s annoying to say 👎
People in my old company used to genuinely say dub dub dub as in “double-u double-u double-u”. Fucking dicks 😂.
It’s the correct way to speak a URL… dub dub dub dot something dot com == https://www.something.com
Correct way is to double-u, not dub.
Correct way is to treat “www.” as silent and not even say it or type it. Then if a URL doesn’t support non-www URLs, don’t do business with them.
Extra credit: block www.* on you pi-hole or other DNS filter so you avoid those sites that force-redirect domain.com to www.domain.com.
Ah crap that’s what I say.
I’m only messing, it just gets on my tits that’s all.
Mtg. A lot of posts and articles use it for Marjory Taylor Green an it always confuses me, I keep trying to figure out what Magic the Gathering has to do with Jewish space lasers.
Tap to deal 5 damage to target creature or player, then add three recharge counters to Jewish Space Laser.
During the untap phase, if there are any recharge counters on Jewish Space Laser, instead of untapping remove one counter. Otherwise, untap as normal.
I haven’t played Magic in 25 (maybe 30?) years, but you captured the tone for sure. Do you work for Wizards?
I hate all TLAs
Zuko?
How about FLAs?
FLA itself is TLA.
FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.
Don’t have a least favourite.
But my favourite is WYSIWYG has been mine for 20 years now, it’s so fun to say.
It stands for “What You See Is What You Get” and was used for visual editing programs where you could move things around and the final product would reflect that.
For those who don’t know, much of the reason WYSIWYG is so fun is because the accepted pronunciation is “whizzy-wig”!
As a term it rarely gets used any longer, because “visual editors” are now the norm, where once they were the rarity.
Before visual editors, you’d have content on a screen like a document which you could only see how it would actually look by physically printing it onto a piece of paper. This is because the printer itself knew about fonts and paper size and all that, and the editor didn’t.
Nowadays even with technically non-WYSIWYG editors like markdown text you can still instantly preview the rendered output on screen, so there isn’t as much need to call it out as a feature.
WYSIWYG is also pretty common these days for tabletop gaming, with regard for models using the rules for whatever weapons or equipment they are actually holding. This came around as often people build the model one way (e.g. with a machine gun) before a rule change, after which they want to use the better rules without re-doing the model (e.g. with a flamethrower).
My least favorite is IANAL (no pun intended), my favorite is RTFM, I use it a lot!
BofA is ugly but it’s mainly a US thing, no one else uses it.
lots of people use bofa! >!bofa deez nuts!<
Spoiler tags work a little different here. Try this:
::: spoiler lots of people use bofa! bofa deez nuts! :::the tags I used work fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Gotcha. The tags didn’t render for me (I’m using Jerboa on Android)
That’s not official though
I can only read it as “I Anal” and the teenage boy in me giggles and I forget what I am reading.
WYD and IKR
YWNBAM/YWNBAW. Besides being transphobic (it’s short for ‘you will never be a man/woman’), I always automatically attempt to read/pronounce acronyms as if they were words, and this one sounds really stupid.
Yikes, I’ve never seen these ones before but I hope they’re confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don’t see them too much
I have a weird thing where I’ll know an acronym that’s close to another one, confuse the two, and come up with a new acronym that doesn’t exist or make sense, but it “works” and then the rest of the context is just off.
The latest victim of this is “Assigned Cis At Birth”
Now that that’s out in the world, I’m sorry that someone else is going to do the same thing…
I do the same thing. My brain kept misinterpreting ACAB for a while and usually slotted in “cat” for some reason until I figured out what it meant
all cats are bastards.
This is known.
In my area of specialty, Identity and Access Management, one of the recent fads is Attribute Based Access Control. I always do a little double take when there’s a serious conference topic going over ABAC.
Worst: TLA
Best: WOMBAT
What does WOMBAT stand for?
Waste of money brains and time 😸
I agree that’s a great acronym
