Solve : UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms?

1.	Solve : UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms?
Answer» More and more we are using ACRONYMS. However, the need for MORE is very dubious. Some are useful, others funny. Büt many are are only a CWOT. You know what that means - Right? here are a few you night not know. AFK away from keyboard AFAIK as far as I know ASOP assistant system operator BAK back at the keyboard BEG big evil grin BRH be right here C&G CHUCKLE and grin CMIIW correct me if I’m wrong CWOT complete waste of time DIIK darn if i know DIKU do I know you? DMMGH don’t make me get hostile These are from a LIST of 500 Acronyms. YCGI - You Can GOOGLE It. TL;DRSorry to pee on the PICNIC, but aren't most of these initialisms rather than acronyms? You can pronounce an acronym as a word, e.g. ASCII you say "asky". So NATO is an acronym but FBI is not.TL;FR is "Too long; didn't read." How do you SAY PCMCIA? Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 28, 2017, 11:49:32 PM How do you SAY PCMCIA? Pee see em see eye eh. Thus not an acronym.Some of them aren't even really recent. ASOP isn't something likely to be used nowadays since it relates to BBS message board sys ops, for example. And many of them are "defined" by some arbitrary website (probably to make fun of how many shorthands there are) but are pretty much never used. DMMGH for example. Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 29, 2017, 12:29:50 AM ASOP isn't something likely to be used nowadays I thought that was a fable

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More and more we are using ACRONYMS.
However, the need for MORE is very dubious.
Some are useful, others funny.

Büt many are are only a CWOT.
You know what that means - Right?

here are a few you night not know.

AFK      away from keyboard
AFAIK    as far as I know
ASOP    assistant system operator

BAK      back at the keyboard
BEG      big evil grin
BRH      be right here

C&G      CHUCKLE and grin
CMIIW    correct me if I’m wrong
CWOT    complete waste of time

DIIK      darn if i know
DIKU    do I know you?
DMMGH    don’t make me get hostile

These are from a LIST of 500 Acronyms.

YCGI     - You Can GOOGLE It.
TL;DRSorry to pee on the PICNIC, but aren't most of these initialisms rather than acronyms? You can pronounce an acronym as a word, e.g. ASCII you say "asky". So NATO is an acronym but FBI is not.TL;FR is "Too long; didn't read."

How do you SAY PCMCIA?

Quote from: Geek-9pm on September 28, 2017, 11:49:32 PM

How do you SAY PCMCIA?

Pee see em see eye eh. Thus not an acronym.Some of them aren't even really recent. ASOP isn't something likely to be used nowadays since it relates to BBS message board sys ops, for example. And many of them are "defined" by some arbitrary website (probably to make fun of how many shorthands there are) but are pretty much never used. DMMGH for example.
Quote from: BC_Programmer on September 29, 2017, 12:29:50 AM

Solve : UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms?

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