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What I thought some abbreviations/emoticons meant vs what they actually meant

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Submitted ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Potatisen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FTFY is better as Fuck that, Fuck you.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Gets the same point across!

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  • loomi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So much hate

    (Until I figured out this acronym a couple years back, the internet was a much angrier place for me. )

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    • SadSadSatellite@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what I thought it was until right now

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      • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I still can’t believe it doesn’t mean that.

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  • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am gonna steal FTFY, so whenever I use that, remember that’s what I’m saying to you.

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    • answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fuck That Fuck You actually works in every context where FTFY is used

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  • paddirn@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought FTW meant ‘Fuck The World’

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    • darvocet@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve always thought it meant both

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It does when scratched into school desks. In text messages/online posts, though, it means For The Win.

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  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always read TFW as “the fuck when”

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    • philthi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was essentially certain that this meant: “their face when”

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      • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I thought it was “that feel when…” like in the memes.

        Both kinda work, though.

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    • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The First Walrus.

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    • fulcrummed@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      TFW… SMH Not sure I can unlearn “that face when… so much hate”

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  • Randelung@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the better o2 lmao

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  • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OMW should be “oh my word”

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Oh my! Word?”

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      • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Nah its more like oh! My word!

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  • IndiBrony@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I can use all of these to talk about a rousing game of football:

    Newcastle United Fuck The What! We can’t lose against Man United again SoMetHing.

    MotherFuWwer Joelinton misses an absolute sitter 😨 (Some internet famous Lorem Ipsum)

    On my way

    *Oh My What. Fuck This, Fuck You.

    The Fuck What we’re actually winning Happy cat emoticon. Howeh the lads 0⁷(dunno how to subscript on my phone so this is the best you get)

    >85 minutes later

    We lost again‽ First Flayer Shooter!

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    • jonathanvmv8f@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I love when people make the effort to do this kind of stuff and I got the opportunity to have someone do it for my post.

      Thanks dude. You have made my day…

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  • Kiernian@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Back twenty years ago when I first started seeing “SMH” it was “So. Much. Hate.”

    As in “I really dislike that.”

    As in “So, everybody unanimously said they want sheet cake for office birthdays and management decided to double down on the day old donuts again anyway? So Much Hate.”

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    • errer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought I was nuts in remembering that it meant so much hate at one point

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      • Kiernian@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think it was the original meaning when it was brand new and still very niche.

        Part of me wonders if it made it onto one of those “Parents! Know these abbreviations!” memes where they purposely list the acronyms incorrectly (LOL–Lots of Love) and then got more popular that way.

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  • Tixanou@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    english be like: iirc atm btw nbd omw orly tbf rn tbh, wbu 👍

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  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    mft isn’t MotherFucker What??

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  • letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I know someone who insists LOL means “lots of love”.

    His text “My mother-in-law died last night LOL” still fails to parse.

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  • Meron35@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I thought <3 was a set of balls

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    • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And E> is a set of cyborg balls.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What the hell do cats look like in your neck of the woods? 🤨

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  • saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always pronounce FFS in my head. I imagine it’s the person breathing out in frustration.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I genuinely thought SMH meant “smack my head” as in facepalm. Which works in context, both mean I am dissapoint.

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    • kwedd@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I thought it meant “so much hate”.

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  • Tobberone@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A flayer shooter with Oz, you say? Well, the lore is there.

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  • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OMW = Old Man Winter

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  • drislands@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love it lmfao (lost my flannel at Orlando)

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …and why do kids these days say ooh-wooh?

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    • Venator@lemmy.nz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s spelled uwu

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        OwO

        UwU

        They’re face emojis.

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    • Enkrod@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      UwU, OwO and OwU represent Cute Face

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  • xlash123@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I always internalize SMH as suck my head

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    • Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty sure that was the original meaning.

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      • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m pretty sure this can’t be true lol

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  • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    \o/

    meaning: holding up hands in celebration

    I thought: stylized lol

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    • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      o7

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ffs: fuckfuck shit

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  • thesocavault@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It would be better if people wrote out the words so 1 - there is no misunderstandings and 2 - we know they know how to spell. 😉

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  • yamapikariya@lemmyfi.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same here. Some of those are exactly what I thought and one was what I still thought to this day

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you haven’t tried that better oxygen, you should get down to your local oxygen bar ASAP (Always Slippy As Peppers).

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    • taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The best I’ve got is O3.

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