Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.

Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.

  • anonymouse
    492·
    10 months ago

    FTW. For years I thought it meant “Fuck The What”. Even now that’s the first thing that comes to mind and have a hard time remembering the actual meaning.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      24·
      10 months ago

      There’s also FTFY, which I thought was a way of throwing offence at the topic and the person that brought it up

    • Tar_Alcaran
      131·
      10 months ago

      After “fuck the what” it started to mean “For the win”. What else is it supposed to be?

      • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
        10·
        10 months ago

        What else is it supposed to be?

        • fear the whales - because sharks are not enough.
        • ferry the warriors - how else will they reach Hades?
        • fuck the West - yes, I had to politicise this.
        • feed the woodpeckers - hipster version of granny throwing popcorn to the pigeons.
        • feel the wetness - this is sounding like porn already.
        • xmunk
          3·
          10 months ago

          This list gets progressively more FTW.

      • tsonfeir@lemm.ee
        7·
        10 months ago

        It means fuck the world. But some jerk made it for the win and ruined all my fun

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’ve never heard “Fuck the What”, it’s always been “Fuck the World” before also becoming “For the Win” for me.

    • moistclump@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      Dated someone with FTW tattoo. I always thought it was Fuck the World but he sweaaaars he meant it as “Forever Two Wheels”, some motorcycle thing. Yeh right bud.

    • aulin@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      It’s always been For The Win to me. Fuck the world seems to have been before my time.