What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant

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Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 312 points – 5 months ago

Didnt really pay attention to context or spelling, more like reading through words derived from a foreign language

FTFY is better as Fuck that, Fuck you.

Gets the same point across!

So much hate

(Until I figured out this acronym a couple years back, the internet was a much angrier place for me. )

That's what I thought it was until right now

I still can't believe it doesn't mean that.

I thought FTW meant ‘Fuck The World’

I’ve always thought it meant both

It does when scratched into school desks. In text messages/online posts, though, it means For The Win.

I am gonna steal FTFY, so whenever I use that, remember that's what I'm saying to you.

Fuck That Fuck You actually works in every context where FTFY is used

the better o2 lmao

OMW should be "oh my word"

"Oh my! Word?"

Nah its more like oh! My word!

Back twenty years ago when I first started seeing "SMH" it was "So. Much. Hate."

As in "I really dislike that."

As in "So, everybody unanimously said they want sheet cake for office birthdays and management decided to double down on the day old donuts again anyway? So Much Hate."

I thought I was nuts in remembering that it meant so much hate at one point

I think it was the original meaning when it was brand new and still very niche.

Part of me wonders if it made it onto one of those "Parents! Know these abbreviations!" memes where they purposely list the acronyms incorrectly (LOL--Lots of Love) and then got more popular that way.

I can use all of these to talk about a rousing game of football:

Newcastle United Fuck The What! We can't lose against Man United again SoMetHing.

MotherFuWwer Joelinton misses an absolute sitter 😨 (Some internet famous Lorem Ipsum)

On my way

*Oh My What. Fuck This, Fuck You.

The Fuck What we're actually winning Happy cat emoticon. Howeh the lads 0⁷(dunno how to subscript on my phone so this is the best you get)

>85 minutes later

We lost again‽ First Flayer Shooter!

I love when people make the effort to do this kind of stuff and I got the opportunity to have someone do it for my post.

Thanks dude. You have made my day...

english be like:

iirc atm btw nbd omw orly tbf rn tbh, wbu 👍

mfw isn't MotherFucker What??
and tfw isn't The Fuck What??

ig you learn something new every day

What the hell do cats look like in your neck of the woods? 🤨

A flayer shooter with Oz, you say? Well, the lore is there.

I always pronounce FFS in my head. I imagine it's the person breathing out in frustration.

I thought <3 was a set of balls

And E> is a set of cyborg balls.

...and why do kids these days say ooh-wooh?

It's spelled uwu

OwO

UwU

They're actually face emojis. First is eyes open, second is eyes closed.

But what face is this meant to be: lol ?

It's the referee signaling that the field goal was good.

UwU, OwO and OwU represent Cute Face. It is used to express various warm, happy, or affectionate feelings, often with an overtone of arousal.

I genuinely thought SMH meant "smack my head" as in facepalm. Which works in context, both mean I am dissapoint.

I thought it meant "so much hate".

I know someone who insists LOL means "lots of love".

His text "My mother-in-law died last night LOL" still fails to parse.

ffs: fuckfuck shit

I always internalize SMH as suck my head

Pretty sure that was the original meaning; see also SMDH. The head shaking is the kid friendly version.

Edit: I was mistaken. :o

I'm pretty sure this can't be true lol

Edit: decided to look into it further and found this page with an interesting tidbit from 2013 regarding dilution of Google search results:

While finding out what SMH stands for took about 10 seconds, it's what I noticed along the way that really struck me - Google's search results for SMH. I always like to examine interesting first page search results whenever I run across them so we can all better understand the direction search is headed. Before I dive into the details, take a look at the screenshot (click to enlarge):

See how these results differ from regular old Google search results?

Merrill Lynch Semiconductors HOLDRS ETF stock quote results at the top, complete with buttons to change the date range as well as links to details on SMH at Google Finance, Yahoo! Finance and MSN Money.

The "Knowledge Graph" area to right has image (logo) and text links to the Google+ page for the Sydney Morning Herald. Just below is a photo, excerpt and link to Sydney Morning Herald's most recent Google+ post.

Also in the knowledge graph is "place" preview info for Sarasota Memorial Hospital (another "SMH"). As with most things in the knowledge graph, however, this just links you to search results for "sarasota memorial hospital", whose website domain is smh.com

Back in the organic results, we see both the Sydney Morning Herald and Sarasota Memorial Hospital, along with related twitter accounts, Urban Dictionary definitions for SMH, etc. Also smh.org - South Mental Health. Lastly there's an app in the itunes store for the Sydney Morning Herald