I can't think of an acronym for BOOM, so here is Baldrick doing his war poems instead.toriver said:
ZOMGWTFBBQ...Acronyms!
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Doesn't an acronym have to be an abbreviation that you pronouce like a word rather than the individual letters? Thefe WTF is a good abbreviation but not an acronym. Whereas as something like RAM (random access memory) is an acronym.
Don't get me started on anacronyms and backronyms.
Don't get me started on anacronyms and backronyms.
i remember one, a friend told last day:
ROFLSHMSFOAIDMT = Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard My Sombrero Falls Off And I Drop My Taco
ROFLSHMSFOAIDMT = Rolling On The Floor Laughing So Hard My Sombrero Falls Off And I Drop My Taco
ZOMGWTFFBBQSAUSROTFLMFAOROFLCOPTERLOLWUT?
Sadly, I took an hour out of my life to learn how to say this entire thing in less then five seconds, but it has served me well.
Sadly, I took an hour out of my life to learn how to say this entire thing in less then five seconds, but it has served me well.
Don't think too hard about this. People refer to the ones that don't even make words as acronyms, even if it's technically a mistake.WolfThomas said:
You guys know the difference between acronyms and regular initialisms right? FUBAR is an acronym, WTF is not. An acronym is an initialism you pronounce as a word, like FUBAR, you can say FUBAR (Foo-Bar.) You cannot say WTF as anything but W. T. F. At least not without looking mental.
C.R.A.F.T - Can't Remember a Fucking Thing!
F.I.G J.A.M - Fuck I'm Good Just Ask Me!
S.N.A.F.U - Situation Normal All Fucked Up!
H.E.A.P - High Explosive Armour Piercing
P.L.U.T.O - Pipe Line Under The Ocean
S.C.U.B.A - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
C.A.T - Computerised Axial Tomography
G.I.N.S.A.F.U - Grand Imperial Non Self Adjusting Fuck Up!
<Bows to audience applause - not a sausage> Thank You! Thank You!
F.I.G J.A.M - Fuck I'm Good Just Ask Me!
S.N.A.F.U - Situation Normal All Fucked Up!
H.E.A.P - High Explosive Armour Piercing
P.L.U.T.O - Pipe Line Under The Ocean
S.C.U.B.A - Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
C.A.T - Computerised Axial Tomography
G.I.N.S.A.F.U - Grand Imperial Non Self Adjusting Fuck Up!
<Bows to audience applause - not a sausage> Thank You! Thank You!
It gets into iffy territory. Some sets of letters are used as initialisms and acronyms based on context (IRA and the IRA), a lot of things commonly used as initialisms can be pronounced, but aren't in common usage (OMG, USA). Abbreviations weren't really formally formalized in the English language until after they had already become pretty common and the "rules" are still pretty shaky.Zedayen said:
If you want to be really strict you wind up with silly things like WsMD or MsP instead of WMDs and MPs. Never mind things like GNU which have acronyms in the acronym.
Anacronym is where the acronym is so popular it replaces the word in language, e.g. RAM, no one says random access memory anymore.AvsJoe said:
Backronym is where a company pick the word they want and then build an acronym around it, such as F.E.A.R. the game, First Encounter Assault Recon.
I always thought QFT was an acronym for QUIT FUCKING TALKING not quoted for truth....It made certain conversations make so much more sense when I figured that out.