I’m running into this more and more with BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Bungo Stray Dogs.
I was wondering if anyone else has run into anything similar?
DNF: Disjunctive normal form, Dandified YUM
It’s Did Not Finish in racing
I put DNF stickers on items around the house, to remind myself that not everything exists for sexual gratification.
The Linux Kernel has a specific one, whereby DRM doesn’t mean Digital Rights Protection, only thing I could think of.
yeah, I still get confused with that one
That one’s especially egregious because the Direct Rendering Manager handles displaying things to the screen, where you might have Digital Rights Management involvement in the form of HDCP support, etc.
Not annoyed but amused. I suffer from IBS. And in my work there are Internal Business Systems. So I suffer from IBS twice.
SRS/GRS is absolutely everywhere as an acronym. It stands for Sex/Gender Reassignment Surgery
HRT too (Hormone Replacement Therapy)
POV is just not point of view anymore. In modern social media it mostly shows something where there could be a POV, but now you see it in 3rd person because people don’t care about what POV means.
CP does not mean:
- Cyberpunk
- Club Penguin
- Cleft Palate
- Cerebral Policy
- Conservative Party
If you’re on a Unix terminal it means “copy,” anywhere else it means what Josh Duggar is into.
Cerebral Policy? We could use some of that
Where I am it universally refers to a railroad company, Canadian Pacific.
cheese pizza
I used
cpto refer tocode pointerat work. Got very weird looks…
MK, Mortal Kombat, not Mario Kart.
CH, Chapulín Colorado, not Christina Herrera.
SNK, Shin Nihon Kikaku, not Shingeki no Kyojin.
SNK - Saturday Night Korea!
Ooh I’ve got one! I wanna do a poll within this thread, so please respond with a spoiler tag so you don’t influence anyone’s answers.
But what does IMHO mean to you?
Comment below and then come back and read this:
spoiler
To me it means in my humble opinion, but it seems more and more these days I see people referring to it as in my honest opinion.
Is this a coincidence? Or a commentary on how people have gotten more rude or self centered? IDK, I’m not qualified to answer. I just think it’s really interesting that it means both things, and it completely changes the vibe of what you’re saying if someone interprets it one way or the other.
In my honest opinion of course
CS2
Counter Strike 2 or Cities Skylines 2?
For me CS2 is Counter Strike 2 and CS:2 is Cities Skylines 2. No idea why though.
I guess it is suppose be C:S2 for Cities Skylines because that is where the colon is in the name.
You’re right, my bad, I remembered wrong.
Apparently BBC no longer means Big Black Chicken
A lot of british women I knew just loved BBC.
I love how someone uploaded a video titled “Virgin asshole destroyed by BBC” to pornhub, and it was a video of Ben Shapiro losing his shit after badly failing at debating one of the BBC hosts.
Duh, it’s British Broadcasting Chicken.
Huh, I though it was British Black Chicken!
Those of a vintage beyond even my own will know that it stands for “Broken Biscuit Company”, which I believe originated on BBC radio with The Goon Show. Now that’s not an acronym, but it is another word that’s picked up an unfortunate extra meaning in recent years.
This! It’s so frustrating trying to fill my hen house
CBT - Clifford Brick Transport. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Cock Ball torture.
Cannabis CBT and in turn THC, that’s all I know the CBT acronym for
I think you’re thinking of CBD
probably, i don’t like acronyms for this exact reason
Central business district?
“Changed Block Tracking” for me.
So many people think Mac is an acronym for whatever reason, as in “Do you use MAC or PC?”.
I don’t know why they think this. It was never formatted that way in any of Apple’s marketing materials.
It really annoys me. In my head when I read it I hear “MAC” pronounced in the voice of Gilbert Godfrey.
I’m guessing they’re confusing it with MAC addresses? They probably saw the term somewhere and wrongly assumed it had something to do with Apple Macs.
Macintosh Apple Computer
MAC stands for MAC Apple Computer. It’s a recursive acronym.
True, although it’s more formally known as an Apple MAC Apple Computer, or Apple Mackintosh Apple Computer Apple Computer.
With Apple standing, of course, for Applied Possibility and Permutation Learning Environment.
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PDF file must be one of the Most brainrot offenders
MTG it’s a trading card game and not some dumb ass politician.
I try to pronounce it “Empty G” with a slight emphasis on the “p”.
I also see ‘meeting’ abbreviated as MTG. Which, is now what I call it when I send texts to my friends to play Magic. “Hey, got time for a MTG MTG?”
Gotta run with the lowercase “t” to have a little distinction
All the time. Like at some point SC stopped meaning StarCraft and started meaning Splinter Cell. And don’t let me get started about the famous roleplaying game PoE. Yes, or course I mean Pillars of Eternity and not Path of Exile.
PoE = Portal of Evil which was a directory of weird-ass websites.
For me, SC means Supreme Court and PoE means “Power over Ethernet” lol.
Nah, Supreme Court is abbreviated as SCROTUM.
Nice
Sorry, can’t read PoE as anything besides Permit Office Enforcement
PoE is power over ethernet
To be fair “SC” was replaced by “SC:BW” within like a year.
I was late to the party. The only acronym I ever used was SC2.
SC is soundcloud to me
Lol, i can’t think of PoE as anything but Power over Ethernet.
bruh it’s South Carolina
