What is your least favourite acronym?

thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 358 points –

Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn't translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

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FTW. For years I thought it meant "Fuck The What". Even now that's the first thing that comes to mind and have a hard time remembering the actual meaning.

There's also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up

I've been told what it means yet every time I see it my brain goes "for the...." and I can't figure out the last 2 letters. And I have to look it up to be reminded that it means "fixed that for you". But every time I forget and I have to look it up again.

It's used so frequently for offences that I'm not surprised at that.

After "fuck the what" it started to mean "For the win". What else is it supposed to be?

What else is it supposed to be?

  • fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
  • ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
  • fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
  • feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
  • feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.

I’ve never heard “Fuck the What”, it’s always been “Fuck the World” before also becoming “For the Win” for me.

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Fuck the world.

But it's normally For the win?

Dated someone with FTW tattoo. I always thought it was Fuck the World but he sweaaaars he meant it as “Forever Two Wheels”, some motorcycle thing. Yeh right bud.

These two sayings mean the same thing. They both mean “I’m not staying here”

It's always been For The Win to me. Fuck the world seems to have been before my time.

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