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What is up with this? They’ll start a thread with: “I remember seeing him in THHDKFD. Didn’t like his performance.”
How are we supposed to know what THHDKFD stands for? I can understand if it was already referenced in another post but people are just being lazy with their cryptic typing now expecting everyone to be able to read what’s in their mind. Texting has made everyone lazy and weird.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 12, 2024 5:32 AM |
WAYTA?
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 11, 2024 11:24 AM |
[quote]Texting has made everyone lazy and weird.
This is Datalounge. We have managed to be lazy and weird since the last millennium.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 11, 2024 11:31 AM |
Raul Esparza owns this thread.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 11, 2024 11:35 AM |
DIAGF is permissible, surely.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 11, 2024 11:37 AM |
I don't mind the fun of working out an acronym new to me, it's like solving a crossword clue. If insoluble, the google is my acquaintance.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 11, 2024 11:38 AM |
I45BL25.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 11, 2024 11:39 AM |
'Vivian Vance'.
What's that all about?!
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 11, 2024 11:41 AM |
They're obviously referring to a movie or a TV show with a long-ish title. Like, IWTV (Interview... vampire), CMBYN, or KOTFM (Killers... moon). Engage your imagination and it'll take you a second to solve it.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 11, 2024 12:07 PM |
The theatre gossip threads are full of this issue. Apparently it makes some people feel like insiders to do it.
It is, however, wildly confusing for people who don't live in New York and have immediate knowledge of what is and has been on there.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 11, 2024 3:49 PM |
Acronyms have to spell out a pronounceable word. These are initialisms or acrostics.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 11, 2024 4:01 PM |
I was always taught that you write the word on first use then in brackets put the initialism. After that, you can use the initialism as much as you like. Unless, maybe, it’s something so obvious all readers would know without it being explained. I see happen a lot in formal work documents and I pull up the writer, if they report to me, to correct it when I see it. If the reader can’t understand what you mean you’ve wasted your time and theirs.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 11, 2024 5:05 PM |
LOL
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 11, 2024 5:06 PM |
R12 LOL is not a made up acronym. Must try harder.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 11, 2024 5:07 PM |
At some point someone made it up, r13. Must keep up.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 11, 2024 5:10 PM |
R14 but everyone knows what it means. Fail.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 11, 2024 5:11 PM |
FUOP
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 11, 2024 5:13 PM |
They do now, r15. Slow much?
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 11, 2024 5:13 PM |
Back on the AOL chat room days people would ask what LOL meant all the time, and then came LMAO.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 11, 2024 5:15 PM |
UK PM Cameron once ended an email to a familiar with LOL, thinking it meant 'lots of love.'
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 11, 2024 5:17 PM |
R17 you poor sweet summer child. The thread is about posters using made up acronyms (when they really mean initialisms) that other people… don’t know. People know what LOL means. It’s not that difficult really. Also, referring to use of LOL in chatrooms 30 years ago hardly proves the point. Keep digging in though, it’s amusing.
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 11, 2024 5:19 PM |
TTYBYCHA, r20!
Bye!
| by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 11, 2024 5:21 PM |
IYKYK
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 11, 2024 5:30 PM |
OMWTFYM
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | May 12, 2024 4:51 AM |
I don’t notice it that often on datalounge since we skew older. If I see one I don’t know, I google it. Takes about 5 seconds.
| by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 12, 2024 5:05 AM |
SJP sucked in H2$. Maybe M or G for tv movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 12, 2024 5:32 AM |
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