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Author: Subject: Acronyms - A Useful List
Rob Lane

posted on 18/6/03 at 08:49 PM Reply With Quote
Acronyms - A Useful List

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AFAIK - As far as I know (mainly used in chatrooms)
AFK - Away From Keyboard (mainly used in chatrooms)
AI - Artificial Intelligence
AIFF - Audio Interchange File Format
AIM - AOL Instant Messenger (a competitor to ICQ)
ANSI - American National Standards Institute
AOL - America OnLine
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP - Active Server Page (by Micro$oft. Kinda like a dynamic web page. For example: it can receives parameters from you, such as stocks you want to look up, and it will display them with nice graphs besides them)
AUP - Acceptable Use Policy
AVI - Audio Visual Interface (an extremely lame computer video format, used mainly by Micro$oft... Surprise, surprise)
AWG - American Wire Gauge
BBS - Bulletin Board System
BL - Belly laughing (mainly used in chatrooms)
BTW - By The way (mainly used in chatrooms and ICQ)
BWC - Because We Can
CNID - Calling Number IDentification
CU - See you (mainly used in chatrooms)
CUL - See you later (mainly used in chatrooms)
CYA - Cover your ass / See ya (mainly used in chatrooms)
CYO - See you online (mainly used in chatrooms)
DBA - Doing business as (mainly used in chatrooms)
DND - Do Not Disturb (mainly used in chatrooms and ICQ)
DQMOT - Don't quote me on this (mainly used in chatrooms)
EG - Evil grin (mainly used in chatrooms)
EMFBI - Excuse me for butting in (mainly used in chatrooms)
F2F - Face to face (mainly used in chatrooms)
FOMCL - Falling off my chair laughing (mainly used in chatrooms)
FWIW - For what it's worth (mainly used in chatrooms)
FYI - For your information (mainly used in chatrooms)
GD&R - Grinning, ducking, and running (mainly used in chatrooms)
GL - Good Luck (mainly used in chatrooms)
GMTA - Great minds think alike (mainly used in chatrooms)
HTH - Happy To Help / Hope This/That helped (mainly used in chatrooms)
IAC - In any case (mainly used in chatrooms)
IHA - I hate acronyms (mainly used in chatrooms)
IMHO - In my humble opinion (mainly used in chatrooms)
IMNSHO - In my not so humble opinion (mainly used in chatrooms)
IOW - In other words (mainly used in chatrooms)
IRL - In real life (that is, when not chatting) (mainly used in chatrooms)
ISDN - Integrated Services Digital Network (a faster phone line. Supports multi-usage, which means you can use your modem and your phone on the same line simultaneously, each getting 6.4KPS)
ISP - Internet Service Provider
IYSWIM - If you see what I mean (mainly used in chatrooms)
JIC - Just in case (mainly used in chatrooms)
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
KWIM? - Know what I mean? (mainly used in chatrooms)
LOL - Laughing Out Loud / Lots of Laughs
LTM - Laugh to myself (mainly used in chatrooms)
MorF - Male or female (mainly used in chatrooms)
MOSS - Member of the same sex (mainly used in chatrooms)
MOTD - Message Of The Day (mainly used in chatrooms)
MOTM - Message Of The Month (mainly used in chatrooms)
MOTOS - Member of the opposite sex (mainly used in chatrooms)
NFW - No feasible way / no bleeping way (mainly used in chatrooms)
NM - Never Mind (mainly used in chatrooms)
NRN - No response necessary (mainly used in chatrooms)
OIC - Oh, I see (mainly used in chatrooms)
OTF - Off The Floor (mainly used in chatrooms)
OTOH - On the other hand (mainly used in chatrooms)
OTTOMH - Off the top of my head (mainly used in chatrooms)
PITA - Pain in the ass (mainly used in chatrooms)
RL - Real life (that is, when not chatting) (mainly used in chatrooms)
ROFL / ROTFL - Rolling On (The) Floor Laughing
ROFLMAO / ROTFLMAO - Rolling On (The) Floor Laughing My Ass Out
ROFLMBO / ROTFMBO - Rolling On (The) Floor Laughing My Butt Out (mainly used in chatrooms)
ROTFL - Rolling on the floor laughing (mainly used in chatrooms)
ROTFLMAO - Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off (mainly used in chatrooms)
ROTFLMAOWPIMP - Rolling On (The) Floor Laughing My Ass Out While Peeing In My Pants (mainly used in chatrooms)
RTFM - Read the f***ing/fine manual (mainly used in chatrooms)
RYO - Roll your own (write your own program; derived from cigarettes rolled yourself with tobacco and paper) (mainly used in chatrooms)
SNAFU - Situation normal, all f***ed up (mainly used in chatrooms)
SO - Significant other (mainly used in chatrooms)
SOL - Smilling out loud or sh*t out of luck (mainly used in chatrooms)
STFW - Search the f*****g Web (mainly used in chatrooms)
STW - Search the Web (mainly used in chatrooms)
SWAG - Stupid wild-a** guess (mainly used in chatrooms)
TAFN - That's all for now (mainly used in chatrooms)
TGIF - Thank God it's Friday (mainly used in chatrooms)
TIA - Thanks in advance (used if you post a question and are expecting a helpful reply) (mainly used in chatrooms)
TPTB - The powers that be (mainly used in chatrooms)
TTFN - Ta-Ta for now (mainly used in chatrooms)
TTYL - Talk to you later (mainly used in chatrooms)
TU - Thank you (mainly used in chatrooms)
TY - Thank You (mainly used in chatrooms)
UAE - Unrecoverable Application Error (program crash)
UAPITA - You're a pain in the ass (mainly used in chatrooms)
VBG - Very big grin (mainly used in chatrooms)
WB - Welcome Back
WFM - Works for me (mainly used in chatrooms)
WTF - What the F***!
WTG - Way to go! (mainly used in chatrooms)
WUF? - Where are you from? (mainly used in chatrooms)
WYPIWYG - Where You Point Is Where You Go
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get (for example, Micro$oft Word is a WYSIWYG editor because it shows you what you'll get when you'll print your document. Old UNIX or DOS editors are mostly not WYSIWYG editors)
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get (mainly used in chatrooms)
YBWC - Why? Because We Can

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stephen_gusterson

posted on 18/6/03 at 10:20 PM Reply With Quote
you dont have the following


ATB

Steve




perhaps I should get that trademarked






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Mark Allanson

posted on 18/6/03 at 10:55 PM Reply With Quote
I used to run a pub, years ago - we had a little sign above a charity bos which said...

YCWCYAQFTB

Your Curiocity Will Cost You A Quid For The Blind

Worked every time, no-one would be as tight not to donate to the worthy cause, especially with all the knowing locals watching!!

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kingr

posted on 19/6/03 at 09:08 AM Reply With Quote
Here's a couple of more amusing ones :

TWAIN - tool without an interesting name
PCMCIA - People can't memorise computer industry acronyms

And one that has always caused much confusion :

ISO - International organisation for standardisation

Kingr

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Alan B

posted on 19/6/03 at 01:06 PM Reply With Quote
Don't you hate nit picking bastards......

but......

very few of those listed are acronyms...most are abbreviations

An acronym has to create a new/separate word..

NASA
TWAIN
SNAFU
ASCII
FUBAR

are acronyms....they are said as words

but....

BTW
ATB
ROTFLMAO
WTF

etc are not, they are abbreviations because you sound each letter and don't say them as a word.

Right...where else can I go to annoy someone...

ATB TTFN YMMV

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Alan B

posted on 19/6/03 at 02:39 PM Reply With Quote
Guys, I was only having a nit-pick BTW...sorry...

No critisism (sp?) of Rob or anyone else implied....who are here helping others....

Just ignore me and I'll go away....

Perhaps...

NLSA

nobody likes a smartarse....

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Alan B

posted on 19/6/03 at 09:46 PM Reply With Quote
A few more:

NFG No f*****g good
BTF Bent to f**k
RTFM Read the f*****g manual
MIL-TFP-41 Make it like the f****g print for once (there is a story behind this one)
TWIGPTBB That's why I get paid the big bucks

Better go and wash my mouth out now....

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bob

posted on 19/6/03 at 10:21 PM Reply With Quote
Yeah RTFM is great one,i've got it on the box that the SVA manual came in.

Perfect place for it i think.






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Ian Pearson

posted on 20/6/03 at 06:58 AM Reply With Quote
NFG!
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Rob Lane

posted on 20/6/03 at 09:28 AM Reply With Quote
You certainly didn't RTFL (read the f****g list) as RTFM is on it.

It wasn't a comprehensive list, that one I have and it's over 10 pages long.


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timf

posted on 20/6/03 at 11:36 AM Reply With Quote
the best one is still missing

ymmfswgas - youv'e mistaken me for someone who gives a sh*t
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Alan B

posted on 20/6/03 at 12:13 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Rob Lane
You certainly didn't RTFL (read the f****g list) as RTFM is on it.

It wasn't a comprehensive list, that one I have and it's over 10 pages long.




I deserved that..

Good thread

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chrisg

posted on 20/6/03 at 06:41 PM Reply With Quote
Got a bit of time on your hands there, Rob?

LOL

Cheers

Chris





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bob

posted on 21/6/03 at 04:25 AM Reply With Quote
CHRIS

If Rob had time we would have 10 pages of it






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Rob Lane

posted on 23/6/03 at 08:53 AM Reply With Quote
Ahhh Time, that elusive element, the more you look for it, the less there is!

What with business, home jobs, wish list for the car, sons business, garden etc etc. I need a infinite probability drive to get me back to where I started

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stephen_gusterson

posted on 25/6/03 at 06:11 PM Reply With Quote
I like

IDGAF

I dont give a f

atb

(trademarked)

steve






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stephen_gusterson

posted on 25/6/03 at 06:12 PM Reply With Quote
NORWICH

is also a good one








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kingr

posted on 26/6/03 at 08:57 AM Reply With Quote
Apart from the fact that knickers starts with a K, not an N!!

Kingr

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kingr

posted on 27/6/03 at 10:11 AM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Alan B

An acronym has to create a new/separate word..

NASA
TWAIN
SNAFU
ASCII
FUBAR

are acronyms....they are said as words

but....

BTW
ATB
ROTFLMAO
WTF

etc are not, they are abbreviations because you sound each letter and don't say them as a word.




Hmmm, I've been thinking about this, and I'm not convinced, in my opinion an acronym does not have to be able to be sounded out. An acronym is defined as a word formed from the first letters of a multi-word name, the definition of it that I found did not make any comment that it had to be pronounceable as a single word. Also your definition causes a lot of confusion - is SCSI an acronym? It's hardly pronounceable in any traditional sense, but it's still said as a single word, but that could be applied to a lot of abbreviations/acronyms - ROFL (roffle) LMAO (le-mow) ADSL (adsell), you get the point.

Kingr

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Spyderman

posted on 27/6/03 at 12:41 PM Reply With Quote
How do you type AFK ?

Ok I'll get my coat!

Terry






Spyderman

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Alan B

posted on 27/6/03 at 04:28 PM Reply With Quote
Kingr...

"ac·ro·nym [ ákrnim ] (plural ac·ro·nyms)
noun

word formed from initials: a word formed from the initials or other parts of several words, for example, “NATO,” from the initial letters of “North Atlantic Treaty Organization”

Taken from Encarta World dictionary....I'm convinced..

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chunkielad

posted on 12/2/05 at 08:35 PM Reply With Quote
Sorry to bring back an old thread but TWAIN is - TECHNOLOGY without an interesting name

PCMCIA - Personal Computer Memory Card International Association

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dave1888

posted on 23/2/05 at 10:54 PM Reply With Quote
When i worked in BT my job title was
Customer
Underground
Network
Technician


or how about
Fine
Art
Restoration
Technicians

[Edited on 23/2/2005 by dave1888]

[Edited on 23/2/2005 by dave1888]






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Benzine

posted on 23/2/05 at 11:25 PM Reply With Quote
DNA - National Dyslexia Association





The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make it moral.


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pbura

posted on 24/2/05 at 12:13 AM Reply With Quote
DILLIGAF - Do I look like I give a f***?





Pete

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