Does anyone else hate acronyms?

[Raging Justice]

If there is one thing I hate about the modern internet age it's the fact that people can't just say anything anymore. Everything is acronyms now. Every time you starting getting into any type of internet community revolving around any subject, you have to waste so much goddamn time google searching the endless acronyms people use for everything. I find it very exhausting. You try reading a reddit thread and half of every sentence is acronyms. "So I bought the TXD after reading the LLY about the IIO that all the OMHs were PNOing about last week during the Y2U. TTYL"

Like, what the fuck?

I absolutely HATE acronyms. It's like people are just too lazy to actually type shit out anymore.

[Ziggy]

LOL LMFAO i no right? i h8 that 2! like why can't ppl just type out full words?

Being part of the old school IM generation, there were always people out there that were just relentless with abbreviations. But I feel like there was the standard phrases that were acceptable. Like TTYL and LOL. And a lot of those carried over to old school texting. Back when you had to text using a number pad. It was forgivable to want to abbreviate SOME things. But I get annoyed when I have to Google "oic" to see that you meant "Oh, I see." There's some that are just not at all obvious. Even with the context of the conversation, I can't figure out what they mean without Google. I especially hate when people text me "ty" for thank you, I always read it as "tie." I'd rather them say thx than ty, so when I read it phonetically it makes sense the first time.

Doesn't Twitter have a character limit for each posting? I blame that for a lot of people that short hand everything. I had a friend that I use to frequently IM with, and he was the most extreme case of abbreviating I've seen. Not just the "ttyl" stuff, but he would misspell a word if it saved keystrokes. Like saying "wood" instead of "would" for example. But I'm reading his IM and when I read "wood" my brain thinks of, you know, wood as in lumber. So it was so confusing IMing with him.

I had a laugh at a post on the Vogons forums. Someone made a thread to list all of the abbreviations that people use for game titles. Apparently a lot of people will post about games and not type out the title, so if you're not in the know then you have no idea what game they're talking about. Sometimes it can be hard to figure out. I'll abbreviate game titles on this forum, but I always type out the full name of the title one time first. Apparently some people will just abbreviate titles and assume you'll know what they're talking about.

[MrPopo]

I like the railing against acronyms as if it were something the internet invented.

[Anapan]

@ OP: IDGAF
Slightly OT, what does S.C.U.D. stand for?

[Ziggy]

I like the railing against acronyms as if it were something the internet invented.

It's that the internet took it to 11.

[Ack]

@ OP: IDGAF
Slightly OT, what does S.C.U.D. stand for?

Subsonic Cruise Unarmed Decoy

Or do you mean the Soviet Scud missile? If so, that wasn't actually an acronym, just a name NATO bestowed on a line of Soviet missiles to differentiate them.

[marurun]

Modern texting and internet abbreviations are just slang, like any other slang. They serve the same linguistic purpose, though they can actually be a little more artful than spoken slang due to their written nature.

[Anapan]

Thanks, Ack! Yeah I meant the PS1 game and comic. I never read the comic.
I knew the missile one, but it didn't make sense in the context.

[Ziggy]

Modern texting and internet abbreviations are just slang, like any other slang. They serve the same linguistic purpose, though they can actually be a little more artful than spoken slang due to their written nature.

I guess you could say abbreviating is to written language as slang is to verbal, but I wouldn't call it artful. More like cryptic. At least with slang, you can usually infer the meaning with context. Like if I call something a lemon, or someone an airhead. It's pretty easy to get my meaning. But I don't think you can easily figure that LMK is let me know, or YNK is you never know. ICYMI, in case you missed it. If I see a post that says ICYMI followed by a pic or meme or something, how am I suppose to figure what that means? I'd be trying to figure it has something to do with the pic.

[marurun]

It can be artful when numerals replace letters because of similar sounds, stuff that wouldn’t work in spoken language.