My primary mental association for the initialism "GL" is...
Good Luck
Girls' Love
Green Lantern
Graphics Library
Greenland
Other (specify)

seen from Malaysia

seen from Bangladesh
seen from United States

seen from Türkiye
seen from United Kingdom

seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from United Kingdom
seen from China

seen from India

seen from United Kingdom
seen from China
seen from Germany

seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Germany
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Brazil

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
My primary mental association for the initialism "GL" is...
Good Luck
Girls' Love
Green Lantern
Graphics Library
Greenland
Other (specify)
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!)
in my head:
MLM = memmilemm
WLW = wooluwoo
MLW = mooluwoo
WLM = woolimemm
how do you "pronounce" these internally while reading?
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!?
Answer as many questions as you feel comfortable with, all demographic questions are optional.
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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