Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

Overuse of acronyms on this forum and on twitter drive me crazy. So many of them are not obvious at all and difficult to search. "nagl" is an abomination.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 12 August 2016 16:55 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

lol

reasons for use on twitter are pretty obv, imo

idgi

Yes, it makes sense but I still hate what twitter does to people and language.

It taken me a year to figure out what "otm" meant, it was difficult to search. It means "oh that's marvellous".

But honestly it did take me it year to get "on the money".

clearly ilx needs faq

X-post had me confused for a while too.

ofc is the worst currently popular abbrev, tempted to say the only bad one

Oh fucking christ?

I like nagl because you can make jokes about Thomas/Julia with it.

TFW I always initially read as "trigger fucking warning", which works a surprising amount of the time. I do know what it actually means, too.

Of these, only otm seems to be ilx-specific. As is the stubbornly prevalent lowercase.

I think of nagl, dgaf, imo, lol as internet-wide. Interesting how older netisms like IMHO, NSFW, and IIRC are less used here than elsewhere.

smdh took me a while.

"Fuiud" is the only one of these modern acronyms I like. I still think "lol" is wrong but it's probably here to stay for a while.

Who are Thomas and Julia?

Yes, sometimes the lowercase make some sentences really infuriating if we're talking about titles.

I see all of those older netisms here I think, but maybe it's just in my own posts...! Sadly, AFK, BRB, BBIAB, etc. have no place. RIP ROTFLMBO.

Regularly it'll be albums or song titles mentioned without being obvious.

"He did a terrible thing didn't he?" (song called "A Terrible Thing")

"The album you're talking about is total shit" (album called "Total Shit")

"can't get enough of siamese twins, pornography is classic, always in the mood for a strange day"

I always thought FFS = Fuck Fuck Shit

TFW-- had to google the meaning of that just now. Please don't ever use this ever.

OTM is ILX-specific? I had no idea

I find your lack of george michael's faith disturbing.

"Went to see the ruins of beverast and was changed by what I saw, ever since then I've immersed myself in the foulest semen of a sheltered elite"

TFW-- had to google the meaning of that just now. Please don't ever use this ever.

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, August 12, 2016 12:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tavon Foster Wallace?

fandom

― ejemplo (crüt), Thursday, June 9, 2016 5:44 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that is a word that annoys the shit out of me

Who are Thomas and Julia?

Thomas Nagel - philosopher, best known for What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Julia Nagle - member of the Fall and musician in her own right.

lol how do you grandfolks not know what anything means

the acronym that puzzles me most is: wins

well I never, sir

ty

mbdtf

Shit, I thought it was a fetlife thing and meant "woman in nylon stockings".

"can't get enough of siamese twins, pornography is classic, always in the mood for a strange day"

context's a helluva drug

otoh once irl a friend enthused about the theme song to bond film the world is not enough and i said "oh that's garbage" and he looked hurt

My joke examples would be easy enough in their likely context but I've seen more than a few head scratchers when people are talking about quite obscure stuff here.

otoh once irl a friend enthused about the theme song to bond film the world is not enough and i said "oh that's garbage" and he looked hurt

― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour

Similar story: in 1999 some friends and I, rolling hard, played the remix of "Special" and I said, "ooh Garbage!" and the bison-like dude who thought he could hit on my girl friend said, "Nah, bro, it's good!"

Back in the 90s there was nothing i enjoyed more than scraping foetus off the wheel

Though sometimes i would get in a more old-school mood and i could only be happy if weasels ripped my flesh

was on the turntable

Have you guys heard of the band

Or the music

Or the the

I think "the band" is one of the ones that confused me here, I've been into them a long time but if you're not on their thread it's really not obvious unless there's something else to tell you it's The Band.

Wife of a friend of mine came out with, "What the WTF", she still says it but now it's a joke.

I heard there was a wrestler called OMG that caused a lot of confusion on wrestling forums. Can't find anything about him, perhaps because of the popularity of the "oh my God" acronym.

I heard there was a wrestler called OMG that caused a lot of confusion on wrestling forums.

That was probably One Man Gang.

never seen "rescreen" outside of ilm, like everyone here has their own private movie theater for when they want to watch blade 2 again

"Hiddleswift" sounds like bad fantasy.

The Hiddleswift Chronicles Book VII: Curse Of The Falcon Keeper's Magic Gloves.

Yeah, it's a dumb portmanteau. But speaking of fantasy, between the two of them I'm not sure who to be jealous of. They're just too pretty.

"atm" is my least favorite, especially since that acronym already has a meaning: Ass to Mouth

― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, August 12, 2016 12:01 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In that case you can indirectly easily receive money from 2/3 of the common interpretations. Not bad.

With class starting, it's time to start compiling again..

pivot

mostly because I keep using it, and I want to stop, but apparently can't

sounds like you need to pivot

Why is it universal (in the US at least) that phone customer service people say "What I am going to do is I'm going to ______ (put you on hold/transfer you to a manager/whatever)"? This grates on me.

To make the actions of the representative clear, given the calls are usually recorded.

is it the narration of the actions, or the repeating of "I am going to"? if the former, I agree with Evan. If the latter, then I get it.