acronyms that mean something else in your head

[Cheesecake]

Anyone else have that, you know what an acronym means, but your brain keeps reading is as something else.

I absolutely know F/U is further update, but I honestly keep reading "Eff you, Corbin was a girl"

STBXH (soon to be ex husband) to me reads as Shit douche bag ex husband, I even change the T into a D to make it more convenient.

Anyone else have this, and/or has more fun ones???

[ktkl09]

I totally think "eff you" too!

EFF YOU CORBIN WAS A GIRL, YOU WERE ALL WRONG, is really what I see

[GilliC]

I always though "F/U" was "follow up." :$

I hate the D in DH, DD, etc. but I have to put "DBF" to distinguish from "best friend." However, I always think "DB Sweeney"

There was a lot of acronym-clash on the book board, since common titles all got abbreviated. A lot of them overlapped with computer terms, which led to some weird results in my head!

[Cheesecake]

Jun 13, 2012 9:31:58 GMT -5 GilliC said:

I always though "F/U" was "follow up." :$

I hate the D in DH, DD, etc. but I have to put "DBF" to distinguish from "best friend." However, I always think "DB Sweeney"

There was a lot of acronym-clash on the book board, since common titles all got abbreviated. A lot of them overlapped with computer terms, which led to some weird results in my head!

I think follow up and further update are both correct, whereas eff you isn't...

[crimsonandclover]

I also that f/u was follow-up, but that meaning is about the same. However, I also often read it as "eff you"

I used to lurk on TIP, and STBXH took me a loooong time to figure out. Somehow I would try to make "son of a b!tch ex-h" fit, but that didn't really work. It wasn't until I went to respond on another board (I think here, actually, when LOB was going through her FB-hacking problem) and wrote "your soon-to-be xh" that I realized what it meant. Also on the TIP and SO boards, the "FWB" took me a long time. I thought it was "f**k with buddy". Sort of amounts to the same thing in most cases, but I had the acronym wrong :-) (it's friend with benefits, btw, for anyone who doesn't know).

[bugabean]

For a long time, I thought "AW" was just a word. Like "aaaawwwwww my dog is so cute" or "aaaaawwwwww [yeeeeah] I got the job". I still say it way in my head.

Just today, someone posted a picture on FB of something she wanted to sell, adding "NIP." at first, I wondered why anyone would care that she was nursing in public while posting on FB, and then I realized she meant it was new in package.

[ktkl09]

Jun 13, 2012 10:52:34 GMT -5 bugabean said:

For a long time, I thought "AW" was just a word. Like "aaaawwwwww my dog is so cute" or "aaaaawwwwww [yeeeeah] I got the job". I still say it way in my head.

Just today, someone posted a picture on FB of something she wanted to sell, adding "NIP." at first, I wondered why anyone would care that she was nursing in public while posting on FB, and then I realized she meant it was new in package.

um, what does "AW" mean? ....

[travelingturtle]

AW means attention whore, but I always see it aw awwwwwww, too.

Does f/u mean follow up?

I always see s/o as shout out and I expect the post to be about something the person wants to rave about.

I also hate the D in front of DH or DS and DD. So, I typicallly refer to my DH as H and my DS as W.

[ktkl09]

It means attention whore? Really?

yeah D's kind of annoying in DH, I think I'm going to drop it. He shall become "H".

[crimsonandclover]

I always thought AW meant "attention wanted" although that's one of those that works in the situation, too.

And haha to NIP being "new in package"!! I also would have read that as nursing in public!! :-)

[elenetxu]

Jun 13, 2012 10:52:34 GMT -5 bugabean said:

For a long time, I thought "AW" was just a word. Like "aaaawwwwww my dog is so cute" or "aaaaawwwwww [yeeeeah] I got the job". I still say it way in my head.

I was so disappointed when I learned what it meant.

[travelingturtle]

you know, it probably does mean attention wanted. Someone once mentioned it means attention whore and so that's what I think of it as.

I've never seen it used anywhere but the nest.

[dorothyinAus]

Jun 13, 2012 9:31:58 GMT -5 GilliC said:

There was a lot of acronym-clash on the book board, since common titles all got abbreviated. A lot of them overlapped with computer terms, which led to some weird results in my head!

I really disliked the acronym-ed titles. I never could figure out what book they were talking about.

I try hard not to use too many acronyms -- I think the only one I use regularly is DH, and at that, I don't like the D either.

I always thought s/o was for spin-off. I think it actually is supposed to stand for speaking of, but spin-off works just as well, and sometimes better.

[clickerish]

Thank you all for enlightening me, because I did truly believe F/U was what you all said. Knew I was wrong but clueless as to what it was.

The one that gets me is STFU. I always think "stuff you" which makes me think of turkey...

[bugabean]

I thought s/o was spin-off too.

Not long ago, I used "FTW" with a friend who hadn't seen it before. She didn't type anything for a bit and then she said, "that doesn't mean 'fuck the what', does it?"

[oneslybookworm]

It took me forever to figure out "Ded" was just "dead." Why bother leaving out the "a"?

PS - am I wrong about this?

[bugabean]

I don't get that one either.

[elenetxu]

Jun 14, 2012 2:06:07 GMT -5 bugabean said:

I thought s/o was spin-off too.

Not long ago, I used "FTW" with a friend who hadn't seen it before. She didn't type anything for a bit and then she said, "that doesn't mean 'fuck the what', does it?"

What does it meeeeeeeean!? I've been wondering about that for a while.

[bugabean]

"for the win"

[elenetxu]

hahahaha, I always read it as "f*** the world."