Acronym/Abbreviation Dictionary

[JayBee]

Hey guys - what acronyms/abbreviations have you come across in your travels across the various web fora?

IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
AFAIK - As Far As I Know
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer (usually followed by "but....")
WTF? - What The Flip?
TIA - Thanks In Advance

And the classic

LOL - Laughing Out Loud
LMAO - Laughing My Arse Off
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing

These can be combined eg

ROFLMFAO - Rolling On Floor Laughing My Flipping Arse Off

etc etc.

Anyone got some unusual ones? And does anyone know WTF FUD stands for???

Cheers

[AKcrab]

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

FUD - F'd up disinformation?

The site lists other posibilities. Your post covered most the acronyms I've seen.

[rusto]

Sheesh, all the ones I can think of that you haven't listed already have the mother of all bad words in them:

STFU - shut the flip up

SMF - sick, silly, or stupid motherflipper

WTF - who the, where the, or what the flip

[nkuvu]

FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.

This is the most common instantiation of FUD that I've seen.

acronymfinder is a good place to find definitions -- from what I can tell, it fully includes the Jargon File (at http://tuxedo.org/jargon/html/index.html)

Some examples from the Jargon file:
OTOH -- on the other hand

YHBT. YHL. HAND. -- You have been trolled. You have lost. Have a nice day.

YMMV -- your mileage may vary

HHOK -- ha ha, only kidding

HHOS -- ha ha, only serious

There are a lot more...

[AKcrab]

Originally posted by nkuvu
This is the most common instantiation of FUD that I've seen.
I learned a new word today. Thanks nkuvu! :)

[JayBee]

and of course:

FSCK - File System ChecK

As in

Shut The File System ChecK Up!

;)

[mervTormel]

fink has a fine dict command for all your commando 'instantiations'...

$ dict RTFM

3 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.0, 30 APR 2001) [jargon]:

RTFM /R-T-F-M/ imp. [Unix] Abbreviation for `Read The ****ing Manual'.
1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider trivial or
annoying. Compare {Don't do that then!}. 2. Used when reporting a
problem to indicate that you aren't just asking out of {randomness}.
"No, I can't figure out how to interface Unix to my toaster, and yes, I
have RTFM." Unlike sense 1, this use is considered polite. See also
{FM}, {RTFAQ}, {RTFB}, {RTFS}, {STFW}, {RTM}, all of which mutated from
RTFM, and compare {UTSL}.

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:

RTFM

<jargon> /R T F M/ Read The ****ing Manual (always
abbreviated, sometimes bowdlerised to "- Fine -") An
(unhelpful) {guru}'s traditional response when someone asks a
question in a {newsgroup} or {mailing list} which he could
have easily answered for himself had he bothered to RTFM.

The term may also be used to indicate that you couldn't find
the answer in the manual. E.g. "How do I interface Unix to my
toaster? And yes, I did RTFM but the {FM} didn't help and I
can't {RTFS}."

Derived forms include {RTFAQ}, {RTFB}, and {RTM}. Compare:
{UTSL}.

[Earliest use?]

[{Jargon File}]

(2000-05-16)

From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms December 2001 [vera]:

RTFM
Read The Flaming / ****ing Manual (slang, Usenet, IRC)

fsck it, drive on...

[JayBee]

DICT - Damn Intelligent Computer Technology

:D

[bakaDeshi]

PITA - Pain In The Arse
HTH - Hope That Helps
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get(Depending on what monitor you have, what calibration you're using, yadda, yadda, yadda...)

[bmartino]

Something we don't have to worry about:

BSOD: Blue Screen of Death

And something my tech support friends use all the time when people complain that they can't print something:

"Oh, there must be a DFU error."

DFU: Dumb Flipping User

[mervTormel]

DFU: see PEBKAC

...

PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair

[sao]

Thanks, MervTormel.

UTSL
Use The Source, Luke (DFUe, Usenet, IRC)


Cheers...

[etaoin]

PCMCIA = People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

[bluehz]

FYI - to install the Fink do:

fink install dict

[rusto]

BFD - big flippin' deal

[hschickel]

The freeware OmniDictionary (http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=3242&db=mac) provides a gui and a service for dict.

It rocks.

Hugh

[JayBee]

BSOD - Blue Screen Of Death
SBOD - Spinning Beachball... Of Death!