Acronyms I never thought about ...

[In_The_Wind]

AMF!

A means "Adios". MF does not mean "My Friend".

http://www.ultimatetop10s.com/10-funny-acronyms-to-use-when-texting/

Please add yours ...

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I don't use many acronyms, but my adult grandchildren were surprised to learn that

I knew the meaning of WTF. I guess they think I've been an old woman my entire life.

[In_The_Wind]

2. I've been getting laughs out in public by saying: WTF

If I used the words I'd be getting disapproving looks.
One very good DU friend PMed ... It's about the tone [img][/img][img][/img]
Getting older is becoming fun.

[freshwest]

25. Most people don't know what KMA means.

Used to say AMF to the guys as I walked out the door everyday, but didn't use the initials.

Just woulda had to be there...

[In_The_Wind]

29. Too many college boys locally. They would ask when!

SUNY @ NP

[Raine1967]

42. That one I know!

Great town...

was at the Gilded Otter a few weeks ago!

[freshwest]

51. Yup. Frat reference. Don't know why it's not used more often. Now I say Kiss Off~ It's cleaner.

[undeterred]

12. It used to be the Wisconsin Tourism Foundation

but they had to change it.

[OriginalGeek]

47. We have a local fast-ish Mexican food chain

where the employees routinely wear shirts that say "WTF?" on the front.


Of course, on the back, it says "Want Tijuana Flats?"

And my answer is "yes!" They have great food.

[lastlib]

3. A useful one: TMALSS--

"To Make A Long Story Short..."

[In_The_Wind]

4. I like that one a lot!

I see so many that I'm guessing about.

[CBGLuthier]

5. Hate to be a spoil sport, but only two of those are close to acronyms

the rest are abbreviations.

Acronyms have to form a word.

Radar and Laser are acronyms. IRS is not.

[In_The_Wind]

7. Did I mention any of those?

[CBGLuthier]

9. Those that I mentioned were my examples

Of the eight "acronyms" you linked to, only the two that form words are actually acronyms.

An acronym has to form a word. Otherwise it is just an abbreviation. I do not think that you understand what an acronym is. It seems to be a very common misconception.

[Art_from_Ark]

61. There are many different types of acronyms

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym

[LiberalAndProud]

11. So, SCSI an acronym?

We pronounce that scuzzy, so does it qualify?

I think the definition of acronym has evolved.

[Iggo]

13. I'd say yes.

My brain is telling me: -nym is name, and scuzzy qualifies as the name of that thing, so yeah, it's an acronym.

But sometimes, even when my brain gets to the right answer, it got there by taking the wrong road, so you might not want to quote me on that...lol.

[Paulie]

27. Apple for a while tried to pronounce it Sec-sea

I still ROTFLMAO for 30+ years about it.

[CBGLuthier]

31. definitions don't evolve.

People just insist upon inaccuracy.

I have always pronounced SCSI the way that Apple does not care for so yes that makes it a word.

Just because many people believe something does not make it true. Even in the internet era.

[LiberalAndProud]

45. Etymologists would disagree.

Awful used to mean 'deserving of awe', for example.

Once every ten years, the Merriam- Webster dictionary is updated. Their 11th edition for 2003 included some 10,000 new words along with 100,000 new meanings to words already existing and some 225,00 revised definitions.
http://ezinearticles.com/?-Etymology--How-Words-Change-Over-Time&id=12709

[kurtzapril4]

74. They sure would!

For instance, the meaning of "gay" has definitely evolved over time.

[bike man]

24. Actually, you might find this definition interesting - initials can be acronyms.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym

Definition of ACRONYM
: a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also: an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters : initialism

(bolding mine)

[patricia92243]

32. I was thinking the same thing. :)

[NightWatcher]

68. Do SNAFU and FUBAR count?

Situation Normal: All Fucked Up

Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

I also like BOHICA

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Which was and is a real college, although they recently switched it to Notre Dame University of Maryland to avoid some embarassment.

Kind of ironic for a Catholic school.

[In_The_Wind]

8. It is interesting.

[lastlib]

46. or Stevens-Hoboken Institute of Technology.

They've renamed it the Stevens Institute of Technology....for some odd reason...........

[olddots]

10. it took me a month to figure out LOL

asking someone would have been embarrassing so it finally came to me .

I don't even know any short cuts on computers and sometimes take the long way home because its more interesting .

we used to use music and art slang to confuse outsiders then realized we were outsiders .

well Lust of life as we say .

[Iggo]

14. I thought is was "Lots of Luck", as in "Um yeah, good luck with that."

[sharp_stick]

44. I know someone who thought it

meant "Lots Of Love" and used to sign her emails/texts with it. Including one that was announcing the recent death of her uncle.

"Just a quick note to inform you of the recent passing of my beloved Uncle Tom. He'd been sick for quite some time and is now in the arms of our Lord.

LOL."

It took about a week before someone clued her in. I think it actually made her feel better but not until she knew that everyone was OK with her mistake.

[In_The_Wind]

21. LALA

Lust after life always! [img][/img]

[Amber89vhernz]

15. N.F.W

NO FREAKING WAY

Means NFW haha... ROFL..

Duhhh

[hrmjustin]

16. Welcome to DU my friend!

[olddots]

18. welcome and whose this guy ROLF ?

[In_The_Wind]

19. Hey there Amber89vhernz. N.F.W.

can you visit my thread without this ~~> [img][/img] to DU!

[bigwillq]

65. Hello

Welcome to DU!

[olddots]

17. this language seems to have grown so many words

and meanings in such a short time .

AMF wasn't that the company that made bowling balls ?

BVD
DMV
IBM
DVD

OY !!!!!

[In_The_Wind]

20. Oy!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

72. American Machine and Foundry.

I know too much trivia.

And then there was BSA-crappy British motorcycles. Birmingham Small Arms.



Fark.com uses lots of acronyms. STFU, GBTW, FOAD, EABOD.....

[hobbit709]

22. FOAD and TSTL

[Iggo]

33. ...and FUAH.

I like that one. I write it on the sodas that I put in the fridge at work.

[In_The_Wind]

37. I give up.

[hobbit709]

38. The answers are

Fuck Off And Die and Too Stupid To Live

[In_The_Wind]

39. cool

thank you

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

23. FUBAR

F'ed Up Beyond All Recognition

[Lady Freedom Returns]

26. YOLO!

You only live once!

[Paulie]

28. PEBCAK (or PEBKAC)

Problem exists between chair and keyboard

[EvilAL]

30. I'm just pissed that the kids took FTW

and changed it to 'For the Win'.

[Iggo]

34. Took me a while to figure out they meant something totally else.

[EvilAL]

35. and they use it to congratulate themselves on a sarcastic post

You smell of elderberries FTW!

[In_The_Wind]

36. It was Fuck_The_World.

I prefer Fuck The War!

[R B Garr]

40. FM

means F*cking Magic

Like when you did something to impress yourself or others, that's FM, especially if they ask you about it.

[In_The_Wind]

41. I like that one!

[Raine1967]

43. TWAIN

Technology without an interesting name.

To this day it is disputed by the owners of said technology.

[Moondog]

48. BOHICA

Bend Over, Here It Comes Again

[In_The_Wind]

52. IBTL

In Before The Lock!
O. M. G.
On My Gosh!

[Moondog]

53. A time-honored expression

from my days with Uncle, and which I am reliably given to understand is au courant even today.

[In_The_Wind]

54. Honestly, it's a new expression that I should have heard before.

BOHICA

Yep.

I know I've thought that. [img][/img] Once or twice.

[Moondog]

55. Usually pronounced

bo-hee-ka, with the accent on the middle syllable.

[In_The_Wind]

56. bo-hee-ka

I can remember that.

We transplanted 16 year old bulbs and Peonies today.
The Jonquils smelled so sweet.

[Moondog]

57. Jonquils? Oh, daffodils! Heh. Regionalism.

Lived in the DC area for years. At the National Arboretum, they used to (probably still do) have a daffodil walk, for lack of a better term, through a wooded area with a lot of ferns and ivies. Wonderful, a week or two after the tulips (lots of tulips in DC) would peak.

Peonies too! Lucky you.

I used to shoot a lot of film (before the digital era) at this time of year. Took a "normal", a small telephoto, and two macros - one normal and one long. With a tripod. The stuff weighed a ton. You could go there every week from early spring through early summer and catch something else in bloom. Plus the national bonsai collection. Probably the only thing I miss about DC these days, except the bars and expense account restaurants.

[In_The_Wind]

58. The Weeping Redbud may get moved tomorrow.

Sigh. It will become a container plant at the new place. I'm gonna leave the Magnolia.

[Moondog]

59. I forgot about redbuds.

They pretty well begin to peter out around DC.

Was in a wedding, as a favor to an old friend, in upstate NY a number of years ago. I seem to recall the latter half of May. Anyway, as one drove north from DC, the most obvious harbinger of spring were the redbuds. Which got nicer and nicer as oen headed north.

Not a bad looking tree / bush even when they are out of bloom.

I have a few magnolias at my current abode. (For a retirement type community, I have a large lot. Just shy of half an acre.) They are all about ten years away from being wonderful. They are all the southern, grandiflora type. The Nat'l Arboretum has an entire section, a few acres, of various types of magnolias. They, too, take their time coming in during spring.

[In_The_Wind]

64. The Redbud is here.

Now I have to go buy a HUGE pot.
The roots on a ten year old tree are longer than the pot is wide.

[olddots]

49. remember cougar and milf ?

why don't we have RILTP republican I'd like to punch or ADB authoritarian douche bag

the possibilities are never ending

[Taverner]

50. ROFL: Scooby Doo saying "Waffle"

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

60. There's a famous cocktail drink called an AMF

but the actual words are used. They used to feature them in a bar/restaurant at the pier in Newport Beach called the Studio Cafe. They'd really knock you out. I've been waiting for Rachel Maddow to mix one on one of her Friday happy hour shows.

[In_The_Wind]

66. What is in it? Looks awesome!

It's going to be a very long weekend!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

67. I was never quite sure but it's tasty and packs a whallop

According to this:

http://www.idrink.com/v.html?id=5154

"Adios Mother Fucker drink recipe made with Blue Curacao,Gin,Ice,Rum,Sour mix,Triple Sec,Vodka,"

[Scuba]

62. The Wisconsin Tourism Foundation no longers uses WTF.COM.

[In_The_Wind]

63. I wonder why!!!

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[HeiressofBickworth]

69. In Seattle

the South Lake Union Trolly had to be re-named.

[Lionel Mandrake]

70. WLOGA, WIMP, QCD

Of these, only WIMP ("weakly interacting massive particle&quot is a acronym in the strict sense. It is also a backronym, showing that physicists have a sense of humor.

WLOGA & QCD stand for "without loss of generality assume" (math jargon) and "quantum chromodynamics" (physics jargon).

Speaking of backronyms, let's not forget USA PATRIOT, which stands for either “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism" or "Usual Suspects Alert: Politicians Attacking Traditional Rights Instead Of Terrorists", depending on whom you ask. (I prefer the latter.)

[panader0]

71. After a lifetime in construction

I know many that I couldn't post here.

[Locut0s]

73. I'd never heard of POTUS before coming here. nt.