MetaFilter posts tagged with acronyms

BOHICA

Krrrlson — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 23:47:19 -0800

AWGTHTGTTA? FYI, NALOPKT. Alas, TMIKTLIU. (Previously)

Medical terms, such as "LOLFDGB" - Little Old Lady, Fall Down, Go Boom

dios — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:32:19 -0800

Doctor's slang that might be on your chart.

Gimme a G.......gimme an W.....gimme a break!

lalochezia — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:11:32 -0800

Corollaries to famous quotes pt 1: "Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted." - Shelley.

Blogstop

coudal — Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:07:04 -0800

BlogStop. Where the last word of an entry must be used as an acronym for the next entry. Simple.

RAS Syndrome

twine42 — Mon, 19 May 2003 05:46:17 -0800

Am I the only one who gets annoyed by RAS Syndrome? Apparently not. But why do even apparently intelligent people repeatedly refer to PIN Numbers (google 69,200), ATM Machines (google 68,500), RAM Memory (google 173,000), HIV Virus (google 104,000) or GUI Interfaces (google 93,900)? I wouldn't mind, but today even the BBC are getting in on the act. Oh, and incase you care, they are technically called Acronym-Assisted Pleonasms.

I'd ask you to list others you know of, but I know this will get out of hand very quickly... ;)

WolfDaddy — Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:15:25 -0800

Pacronyms An "alphabetical list of acronyms, abbreviations, initials, and common names of federal political action committees (PACs)." And if you ask me, there's TDMOT.

endquote — Tue, 11 Jul 2000 12:44:23 -0800

At work, I'm working on applying XSL transforms to XML documents to get HTML, HDML, and WML pages via an ISAPI filter for IIS. Maybe eventually I'll play with DISCO, and then I'll move on to SOAP, ROPE, and maybe even SAX. When will the acronymical madness stop?

mathowie — Sat, 05 Feb 2000 16:38:56 -0800

WTF does AFAIK mean? Should I RTFM before asking the BOFM? If he tells me "IIRC, IMHO, I'm not HTH" what would you do? Try the acronymfinder.