Acronym

Acronyms are capitalized abbreviations for common phrases and ideas which are pronounced as proper words. Generally, their comprehensibility decreases as a function of their length, essentially converting something from TL;DR to TS;DR, losing it's meaning.

Popular acronyms

Note: Most of the below aren't actually acronyms. They're initialisms.

• BRB (Be Right Back)
• BTW (By The Way)
• FTW (For The Win)
• FYI (For Your Information)
• WTF (What The fuck?)
• GTFO (Get The Fuck Out)
• IMHO (In My Homosexual Opinion)
• OMG (Oh My God) - popular among 16 year old girls and 30 year old IRC addicts
• IIRC (If I Remember Correctly / I Ingest Robot Cock) IIRC DOES NOT MEAN IN IRC YOU TARD
• LOL (Laughing out loud) - THIS HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY ANONYMOUS, AND IS NOW "LULZ"
• ED (Erectile Dysfunction)
• GNAA (Good News And Affability)
• OIC (Oh I See)
• ROFL (Rolling on floor laughing)
• TPB (The Pirate Bay)

Unpopular acronyms

• CP (Captain Picard)
• BME (British Methodist Episcopals)
• CIA (Conflicting Information Association)
• DEA (Don't Eat Acid)
• DRM (Digital Rights Mismanagement)
• DMCA (Dumbass Makes Court Action)
• SOPA (Screwing Over Pirates Again)
• FBI (Federal Butthurt Instigators)
• FCC (For Corporate Communication)
• MPAA (Making Pirates Always Angry)
• NAACP (Not Another Angry Colored Person)
• NAMBLA (North American Man-Boy Love Association)
• RIAA (Really Into Anal Adventures)
• RML (Read My Latest)

Troll acronyms

The entire HTH range.

• FOAD - Fuck off and Die
• HAND - Have A Nice Day - standard Usenet troll dialogue. Condescending. Denotes that the troll believes he has pwned you. He doesn't really want you to have a nice day.
• HTH - Hope that helps
• YHL - You Have Lost
• DIAF - Die in a fire - The troll actually means this.
• YHBT

See Also

• TLA
• акронімів UkrDramatica's article on this

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