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 (Brown Rectum Bob)
• BTW (Blunt Trauma Weiner)
• FTW (Fuck Tom Wopat)
• WTF (Wheres The Faggot?)
• GTFO (Got To Fuck Onions)
• IMHO (In My Homosexual Opinion)
• OMG (Orly My Goooooaaaaaaallllllll) - popular among 16 year old girls and 30 year old IRC addicts
• IIRC (I Ingest Robot Cock) IIRC DOES NOT MEAN IN IRC YOU TARD DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS
• LOL (Little Old Lady) - THIS HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY ANONYMOUS, AND IS NOW "LULZ"
• ED (Epic Dick)
• GNAA (Gynocologyst Nigger Asshole Ackbar)
• OIC (Oh I Suck)
• ROFL (Rukking on freds loli)
• 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)
• 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)

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

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