I’m running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.
I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?
It’s not annoying, only quite funny, but every time I see CSM (Chainsaw Man) I can only think of Coño’e su Madre / Cocha’e su Madre (Motherfucker in Latinamerica).
AC – alternating current, ass crust
DTF – downtime failure, discreet time fourier, down to funkyland
SMB – server message block, some mammamia bros
IANAL – i am not a lawyer, sure you do
SNAFU, how it went from chaotic situation to make a blunder?
Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?
Also, why are Americans so obsessed with acronyms?
My guess would be WW2 and the US Army. The military likes to keep messages concise, so they love to use acronyms. For many service men, the Army was their first experience outside of their small towns. When the soldiers entered the civilian world they brought their training with them. AWOL [Absent With Out Leave] is still a common expression here. SNAFU [Situation Normal, All Fouled UP] and FUBAR [Fouled Up Beyond All Repair] went from being gags to part of the common speech.
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I don’t mean the military acronyms, those make the most sense of all.
I mean all the other, you just need to see the reat of the comments, video games, names of celebrities and politicians, others are used as euphemisms. Now you can even read news articles were only use the acronym of whatever without mentioning a single time what that acronym stands for.
I meant that when the ex-soldiers entered the civilian world they brought the idea of acronyms with them. They looked around and created new ones because that’s what they thought was appropriate.
Also texting on Nokias happened, many were invented to save clicks.
Furthermore it’s arguably natural for organizations to be abbreviated/initialized and it’s not an American phenomenon, as evidenced by the кгб and фсб; or the YPG, KSB, YPJ; ETC.
Therapy be wild taking CBT for cognitive behavioral therapy when it’s been cock and ball torture for so, so long.
“Therapist said I needed CBT. I just walked out. That dude’s fucking crazy if he thinks Imma smash my nuts.”
My shop we sell cheese and bacon traveller pies, abbreviated to CBT…
I use dbt at work, meaning both data build tool, as well as dialectic behavioural theory
MTG it’s a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I also see ‘meeting’ abbreviated as MTG. Which, is now what I call it when I send texts to my friends to play Magic. “Hey, got time for a MTG MTG?”
Gotta run with the lowercase “t” to have a little distinction
I try to pronounce it “Empty G” with a slight emphasis on the “p”.
All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don’t let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.
Lol, i can’t think of PoE as anything but Power over Ethernet.
To be fair “SC” was replaced by “SC:BW” within like a year.
I was late to the party. The only acronym I ever used was SC2.
SC is soundcloud to me
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means “Power over Ethernet” lol.
Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.
Nice
bruh it’s South Carolina
Sorry, can’t read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement
PoE is power over ethernet
PoE = Portal of Evil which was a directory of weird-ass websites.
Acromyms form words. You mean abbreviations.
SWIFT is not a programming language it’s a trading protocol that runs the global financial markets which I’m working very hard to forget but still it deserves respect.
But the name of the language isn’t an acronym it’s just the word swift.
DP is Diet Pepsi
Dr. Pepper
Ummm…no it isn’t. Sorry
It’s dog park.
It’s weird seeing news articles about the SEC that have nothing to do with college football.
You mean size exclusion chromatography, surely.
The Southeastern Conference was founded in 1932. The Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.
Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
SRS/GRS is absolutely everywhere as an acronym. It stands for Sex/Gender Reassignment Surgery
HRT too (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
This! It’s so frustrating trying to fill my hen house
I love how someone uploaded a video titled “Virgin asshole destroyed by BBC” to pornhub, and it was a video of Ben Shapiro losing his shit after badly failing at debating one of the BBC hosts.
Duh, it’s British Broadcasting Chicken.
Those of a vintage beyond even my own will know that it stands for “Broken Biscuit Company”, which I believe originated on BBC radio with The Goon Show. Now that’s not an acronym, but it is another word that’s picked up an unfortunate extra meaning in recent years.
Huh, I though it was British Black Chicken!
A lot of british women I knew just loved BBC.
Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I ‘worked on WAP in the early 2000s’.
I’m working with data, where we have a concept called “write, audit, publish” (also abbreviated WAP). I’m laughing on the inside everyone I hear anyone talking about it.
What is WAP, if not wireless application protocol?
Wide area progressive, when slot machines across multiple casinos contribute to one combined jackpot.
LETS GO GAMBLING!!!
Moist butt cat
MoistCr1tikal?
a pop star made a popular song about it, I too was lost but someone pointed it out… Wet Ass Pussy
OMS! I don’t want to know what ass pussy is!
Leaving out the hyphen totally changed the meaning !
Ask your mom for me. She knows 😏
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
“Changed Block Tracking” for me.
Cannabis CBT and in turn THC, that’s all I know the CBT acronym for
I think you’re thinking of CBD
probably, i don’t like acronyms for this exact reason
Central business district?
