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
• KYS – Kill yourself. Used by trolls when the trolled person in question says something that specifically annoys the troll. Often overused.

See Also

• TLA
• UkrDramatica's article on this

Acronym is part of a series on acronyms

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