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.

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Popular acronyms

Acronyms in action.

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

• OP – Original Poster/Pedophile
• OC – Original Creator/Content
• OG – Original Gangster – used by niggers and wiggers in herds.
• BRB – Be Right Back
• BTW – By The Way
• FTW – For The Win \ Fuck That Woman
• FYI – For Your Information
• JFC – Jesus Fucking Cennedy
• WTF – What The fuck?
• STFU – Shut The Fuck Up
• GTFO – Get The Fuck Out
• BTFO – Blown/Bent The Fuck Out/Over
• NP – Nigger Pardon – problem?
• IMHO – In My Homosexual Opinion
• J/K – Just Kiking
• 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
• FPBP – First Post Best Post
• LOL – Laughing Out Loud – THIS HAS BEEN CORRUPTED BY ANONYMOUS, AND IS NOW "LULZ"
• FFS – For Fuck’s Sake
• ED – Erectile Dysfunction
• IDK – I Digg Kids
• GG – Good Game/Going
• GNAA – Good News And Affability
• YWN – You Will Never
• NORP – Normal Ordinary Responsible Person
• M-O – Modus Operandi – a procedure for approaching something (latin for "method of operation").
• BFF – Butt Fuckers Forevar
• (Y/M)FW – Your/My Face When
• TFW – That Feeling When
• NSFW – Now Show Friends and Workmates
• G2G – Got To Go
• IDGAF – I Don't Give A Fuck
• OIC – Oh I See
• ASAP – As Soon As Possible / Already Sucking Anybody’s Penis
• YOLO – You Only Live Once
• IRL – In Real Life
• OL – On-Line
• BBC – Big Black Cock
• ILY – I Lack Yoghurt – most commonly used by social whores and 16-year-old girls.
• ROFL – Rolling On Floor Laughing
• LM(F)AO – Laughing My (Fucking) Ass Off
• TPB – The Pirate Bay
• IKR – Initiate Kid Rape
• TSMT – This. So Much This – agreement to a thought that was expressed better by another.

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
• DUI – Doing Underage Incest
• NAACP – Not Another Angry Colored Person
• NAMBLA – North American Man-Boy Love Association
• P2P – Penis to Penis
• RIAA – Really Into Anal Adventures
• RML – Read My Latest

Troll acronyms

The entire HTH range.

• FOAD – Fuck Off And Die
• IDIFTL – I Did It For The Lulz
• 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 – You Have Just Been Trolled
• FTFY – Fixed That For You
• 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

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