#initialisms

[prokopetz]

My primary mental association for the initialism "GL" is...

Good Luck

Girls' Love

Green Lantern

Graphics Library

Greenland

Other (specify)

Voting ended onJan 11

[sociolingarticles]

[wanderingandfound]

What does TFA mean to you?

The First Adventure (Alanna:)

The First Avenger (Captain America:)

The Force Awakens (Star Wars:)

Transformers Animated

Trifluoroacetic Acid

Teach For America

Other (please tell me!)

Voting ended onSep 23, 2023

[dalniente]

in my head:

MLM = memmilemm

WLW = wooluwoo

MLW = mooluwoo

WLM = woolimemm

how do you "pronounce" these internally while reading?

[adtothebone]

20 Fresh Abbreviations, Some Acronyms

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WIIAS: Winging It Is A Strategy

GHDAH: Good Handshake, Dumb As Hell

INTHITH: It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humidity

MCGE: May Contain Grammatical Errors

WFHIT: What Fresh Hell Is This?

INSB: It’s Not So Bad

INBABATR: I’ll Never Be A Billionaire At This Rate

IDSUFT: I Didn’t Sign Up For This

BIMD: Back In My Day…

SPA: Shuffling Papers Around

IWPO: I Was Pretty Once

YMDIUH: Your Master’s Degree Is Useless Here

TIMLN: This Is My Life Now

TDSLAGI: This Doesn’t Seem Like A Good Idea

IAOOS: I’m All Out Of Snacks

AYKM: Are You Kidding Me!?

TCBR: This Can’t Be Right

PDW: Pretty Damn Whenever

AEAP: As Eventually As Possible

CYBTS: Can You Believe This Shit!?

[theromanticbatman]

Shortenings Survey

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Hey, so I’m doing some linguistics research with a friend about internet shortenings so we made a quick survey for it. It’s only like 10 questions and we’d be super appreciative if you could take the time to fill it out! We need as much data as possible so please pass it on as well if you can! 

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[prokopetz]

Sometimes it's hard to tell whether or not I'm being Goncharoved because some fandom blogs make it very difficult to identify what media they're actually about. Headers, tags, post captions – all cryptic initialisms. I try to look it up and it's like