YWNBAM/YWNBAW. Besides being transphobic (it's short for 'you will never be a man/woman'), I always automatically attempt to read/pronounce acronyms as if they were words, and this one sounds really stupid.
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Yikes, I've never seen these ones before but I hope they're confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don't see them too much
not an acronym, but 'Est.' as in 'Established xyz'. i read it as 'Ever Since The/Time'
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TBF
To Be Fucked.
Mine are "lol" and "lmao". I get what they originally meant, and I get why most people use them nowadays. It's just that they often signal "I have nothing to contribute, but still expect people to read my crap".
As a second (third?) place, "WYSIWYG". If you're going to coin such verbose acronym, might as well sub it with an actual word, like, dunno, "transparent".
EDIT - "lol" = "lots of laughs", "lmao" = "laughing my arse off", "WYSIWYG" = "what you see is what you get".
EDIT2: as another poster correctly pointed out, "lol" also originally meant "laughing out loud". Perhaps even more than "lots of laughs".
I actually kinda love WYSIWYG because itβs pronounced βwizzy-wigβ in some circles and that always makes me chuckle
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GABOS.
Prison lingo. Acronym for 'Game Ain't Based On Sympathy," first heard in the Louis Theroux documentary "Miami Mega Jail".
Louie: Don't... don't you feel sympathy for that person? For that other inmate you extorted?
Inmate: GABOS, man... GABOS.
ICYMI (in case you missed it) and IYKYK (if you know, you know) which frequently get crossed in my head
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IKR required a search to figure out. Autocorrect takes care of these typical phrases. Imo the only one I like to use is imo for some reason.
FLOSS; only because I can only pronounce the second word as leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeber.
Like all of them, I never remember what they mean and there are some people at work who love to use em. It just makes meetings take longer and emails become less legible.
PCMCIA but we don't need to use it much nowadays
Either FR or PFP. "FR" just feels like another filler word. PFP... I'm too used to calling them "avatars", it just feels wrong and superfluous. I'm probably aging myself here.
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What, no votes for 'goatse'?
I'll uh show myself to the logout button now
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Let's see how many of these the decronym bot knows
@Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz