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#1 2007-03-01 9:22 pm
- CrashingtehWarehouse
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Acronyms
WWWJSTSO? ITMLTFOTATIWTTUTJSTFSO! IDGI.
Sorry, let me define that....
What's wrong with just spelling the sentence out? It takes me longer to figure out the acronym than it would take the user to just spell the freakin' sentence out! I don't get it. 
I understand that we're in the age of the lazy, but man. Whole sentences are at risk here!
ok, </rant>
Can we compile a list of what these things mean? IMO took me forever to figure out.
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#2 2007-03-01 9:48 pm
- Aqua OS X
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Re: Acronyms
I've some in the recent habit of using "IMHO," but I need to stop doing that.
I do enjoy a good "WFT" from time to time, but aside from that, I would tend to agree with you about internet acronyms. They're smurfing retarded.
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#3 2007-03-01 9:56 pm
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Re: Acronyms
And what is WFT? Wireline Formation testing? Wet Front Teeth? When Forests Try?
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#4 2007-03-01 10:17 pm
- sturner
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Re: Acronyms
Or is it a typo for WTF?
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
"There are few things graven in stone, excepting your date of death."
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#6 2007-03-01 10:35 pm
Re: Acronyms
CrashingtehWarehouse wrote:
WWWJSTSO? ITMLTFOTATIWTTUTJSTFSO! IDGI.
Sorry, let me define that....
What's wrong with just spelling the sentence out? It takes me longer to figure out the acronym than it would take the user to just spell the freakin' sentence out! I don't get it.
I understand that we're in the age of the lazy, but man. Whole sentences are at risk here!
ok, </rant>
Can we compile a list of what these things mean? IMO took me forever to figure out.
GTFO.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#7 2007-03-01 11:01 pm
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Re: Acronyms
WTF. What the smurf
I'm not dead yet.
There are 3 types of people, those who can count and those who can't.
"There are few things graven in stone, excepting your date of death."
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#8 2007-03-01 11:06 pm
- 333imacman
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Re: Acronyms
LMAO
i don't understand most things
i don't really want to
i just want the strength
to keep fighting it
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#9 2007-03-01 11:24 pm
#11 2007-03-02 1:56 am
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Re: Acronyms
WTS?
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#12 2007-03-02 2:14 am
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Re: Acronyms
CrashingtehWarehouse wrote:
WWWJSTSO? ITMLTFOTATIWTTUTJSTFSO! IDGI.
Sorry, let me define that....
What's wrong with just spelling the sentence out? It takes me longer to figure out the acronym than it would take the user to just spell the freakin' sentence out! I don't get it.
I understand that we're in the age of the lazy, but man. Whole sentences are at risk here!
ok, </rant>
Can we compile a list of what these things mean? IMO took me forever to figure out.
QFMFT.
but seriously, i'm totally with you there. people that don't type up their words drive me up the wall.
EDIT: grammar
Last edited by Alleycat (2007-03-02 2:14 am)
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#14 2007-03-02 8:10 am
- pottymouth
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Re: Acronyms
OMG STFU
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#15 2007-03-02 9:00 am
- user
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Re: Acronyms
I am just so original!
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#16 2007-03-02 9:28 am
Re: Acronyms
Alien wrote:
IANRTLB
,xtG
.tsooJ
tl;dr
zoh muh guh wuh tuh fuh bah buh que
That, my friends, is so much fun to actually say.
Spirit was crushed; now is fading, But I want to help make things right.
Because I can see and I can feel, and you can see and you can feel
So why don't we both either stand up and fight
Or at least together we'll call it a night.
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#17 2007-03-02 10:11 am
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Re: Acronyms
Perhaps I should just go into school/ work tomorrow and only speak in forunyms. That's right! If you can make up acronyms, I can make up words! Bwa ha ha ha ha!
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#18 2007-03-02 10:35 am
Re: Acronyms
The examples in this thread are initialisms, not acronyms. Just saying! 
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#19 2007-03-02 10:39 am
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Re: Acronyms
WOMPR
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#21 2007-03-02 11:18 am
- Aqua OS X
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Re: Acronyms
I guess "WFT" is short for "What f*cked the ____?"
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#22 2007-03-02 12:16 pm
#24 2007-03-02 2:35 pm
- longboy
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Re: Acronyms
PIITB?
User.
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#25 2007-03-02 2:46 pm
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Re: Acronyms
kb5zhh wrote:
stfu=http://homepage.mac.com/jedwhite/.Pictures/stfu.gif
is that better?
I'm fully aware of the meaning of STFU. But Penn does make it better, thanks.
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