So true
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The fact that someone would shorten 'good morning' to 'GM' and go through the trouble to put it in all caps bothers me
Maybe the phone autocorrected it
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TMA is a problem. (too many acronyms)
That's My Ass!
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Who's up for some AC?
Armor Class?
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In my friend circle it's very common to use gm as one of the typical greetings
Maybe it's pointless to abbreviate, but let's not pretend language is all logical and rational. There's reasons for why people use it ranging from it being part of your speech identity, to preferring the flow to it, to it taking less space, and so on
A lot of it is just vibes based
I get it. Esp if it was a long night lol
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I keep getting "Bon Jour"s from my maman
wrote last edited by [email protected]Here, have a Bon Jovi
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Genetically modified
You and your GM foods
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“Please talk to me like I’m your grandmother. I’m tired of asking what you mean.”
Ohhh, GM is grandMother!
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D ppl nt txt lyk dis n e mor
Could someone let me know please? I’ve been wondering.
J00 5H4LL N0T P455!
-- &4ND4LF
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Yeah, CD is for Compact Disc! E.g. CDRdao
No, Certificate of Deposit!
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No, Certificate of Deposit!
imagine for a second if they trademarked Kompact Disc instead to avoid confusion XD
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That's My Ass!
The Mighty Ape!
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My latest one was rq.
I thought it was a typo.
It stands for 'real quick'.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Idk, I mean can't you just pick it up from context?
Lmk if you genuinely can't.
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Game Master
George Michael
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AC, GoW, EA, POE, CS, DS, so, so many.
Assassins Creed, God of War, No idea, Path of Exile or Pillars of Eternity, Dark Souls.
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Idk, I mean can't you just pick it up from context?
Lmk if you genuinely can't.
This comment made me RQ
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If there’s one thing I miss after deleting my social media’s it’s skweezy jibbs
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Lol, my running group uses "CD" for cool-down. I'm always confused as to why and how they are cross-dressing for 2 kilometers.
Compact disk?
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That's true, but it's also true that within a small community sometimes acronyms are necessary. Like, imagine NASA:
"Jones exited the AL in his AES but the C4ISP flagged an error either in the LSPG or WFCA."
vs.
"Jones exited the air lock in his Anthropometric Extra Vehicular Activity Suit but the Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Information Systems Protection system flagged an error in the Life Support Power Generation System or Water Flow Control Assembly"
Insiders can use the acronyms to be much more efficient. Outsiders probably wouldn't even understand what they're talking about even if they did spell things out fully.
The only problem is when acronyms leak and what's a well known and clear acronym in one group becomes a confusing one to another group, or worse is confused for a different acronym from a different group.
If the intended reader is a regular person just use normal words, even if it's not 100 % accurate.
Jones exited the air lock in his space suit but the control system flagged an error with life support or water flow
All three ways don't mean much to me as an outsider, but the last one at least paints a somewhat understandable picture.
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I don't know how many times I had to look up "SMH" before I got it.
Then people started using "SMDH", and I could start all over again, because you can't figure simple damn things out after a certain age.
I always read those as somehow so I'm now stumped by "SMDH". It's starting to sound like a bondage thing.
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My partner thought “SMH” meant “so much hate”, and “SMDH” meant “so much damn hate”. It worked perfectly in every situation they heard it in. I taught them the real meaning when I realized this about a half decade into dating.
Well… do share
