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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)
Troll acronyms
- 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
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| Internets Lingo |
AFAIK • ASL • BFF • BRB • BTFO • BTW • CBF • DBI • DFC • FFS • FTFY • FTW • G2G • GG • GTFO • IAWTC • IDGAF • IDK • IIRC • ILY • IMO • IMHO • ISHYGDDT • J/K • JFC • LMAO • LOL • M/F? • NSFW • OMG • QFT • PHP • ROFL • RTFM • SNCA • STFU • STFW • SWTF • TMI • TND • TTYL • WTF • YGGR • YWNBAW • ZOMG |
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| Other Lingo |
BCC • FIRRIB • FYIAD • FUBAR • GABYAW • IDIFTL • PITR • TLA • YHBT |
| Internet Places/Group | |
| Moar Internet Shit | |
| IRL Acronyms | |
| Bad Acronyms |
ACLU • ACMA • ACORN • ALF • ATF • BDSM • BLP • CIA • CP • CSD • DMCA • EDL • ESRB • FBI • FA • FFA • FNB • IWF • L.U.L.Z. • MGTOW • MPAA • MTP • MUGEN • NAMBLA • NEDM • RIAA • SPH • SPLC • TBBT • TOW • WWJD |
| Acronym is part of a series on Language & Communication | |
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Languages and Dialects • Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling, Style, and Usage • Rhetorical Strategies • Poetry •
The Politics of Language and Communication • Media • Visual Rhetoric
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