Comments on: Acronym Speak

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 15 May 2008 09:45:08 +0000

I had a similar bout with alphabet soup when I was working for a defense contractor:

I remember some poor bastard tried to compile all defense-related acronyms on a single web page. It was a scary thing to behold. There were like fifteen different translations of “AAA”!

By: ClintJCL

ClintJCL — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:30:37 +0000

y rly

I use lol when I lol, otherwise I laugh the same way I have since getting online in ’88!

By: Sour Swinger

Sour Swinger — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:49:34 +0000

The military is well known to invent acronyms for EVERYTHING.

By: DJ Nicko

DJ Nicko — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:47:43 +0000

I usually giggle like a school girl as well.

Or guffaw. Or chuckle. Or cackle.

And BMF is not FTW, he is a lame TLA.

By: BMF

BMF — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:31:24 +0000

FWIW Nicko has a point. I rarely LOL. I usually hehe. Does that make me a male chauvinist?

BTW BMF FTW.

By: DJ Nicko

DJ Nicko — Thu, 15 May 2008 03:12:27 +0000

I will always belittle people for using “lol”. It doesnt really make sense anymore the way that people use it. It used to describe an action, and still does, but in the “talking sense” which angers me the most.

Especially when people aren’t even laughing out loud.

It is like people saying “sneeze” when sneezing, instead of exclaiming achoo. Dumb.