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Are modern acronyms passing you by?

Dazzler21
Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
in Not Sports Related
BAE?
IIRC?
TLDR?
A2M?

I don't know what any of the above mean? There are literally hundreds of these I don't get.

The only one I get is Charlton Life Independent Travel. Though I am yet to actually find the CLIT since Derby away a few years back.
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,228
    TLAs are easy

    Didn't know A2M but if Dave Mehmet know it is it most likely obscene.

    TLDR is any of Seriously Red's post

    IIRC I use

    BAE is sweet

  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,987
    ICYDK: An acronym is an abbreviation that makes up a pronounceable word – for example CARD, NASDAQ, WHO.

    ITK, ICYMI, GTFO etc, are initialisms like BBC, CAFC and FBI.

    HTH.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    DaveMehmet said:

    Is number 4 arse to mouth?

    Very close its actually Arse 2 Mehmet.
  • C_A_F_C
    C_A_F_C Posts: 3,866
    The opening post was TLDR but IIRC my BAE loves A2M.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,355
    DaveMehmet said:

    Is number 4 arse to mouth?

    Seen that one!
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    IANAL always amuses me. Particularly as it's always followed by but.
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,127
    Henry Irving said:

    TLAs are easy

    Didn't know A2M but if Dave Mehmet know it is it most likely obscene.

    TLDR is any of Seriously Red's post

    IIRC I use

    BAE is sweet

    TLA actually caught me out the other day in a meeting as we went through a long long list of "TLA's" - I'd genuinely never heard it before and it drew a wry smile. FML
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,661
    Just a grown up form of I know something you don't know ner, ner, ner, ner ner
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    The only one of that lot I got was British Aerospace.
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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,008
    2) If I recall correctly.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,638
    BAE before anyone else
  • Hovi's Biscuit
    Hovi's Biscuit Posts: 1,717
    C_A_F_C said:

    The opening post was TLDR but IIRC my BAE loves A2M.

    QED
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,625
    FUBAR
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Any paperwork or non war related army training was known as PENIS
  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    BLX
  • ValleyFred
    ValleyFred Posts: 539
    Haven't you heard? People are tired of acronyms telling us about how we should run our country...
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,569
    guinnessaddick said:

    BAE before anyone else

    IIRC I heard "anything" not anyone. Just FYI.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    edited July 2016
    It's worrying the only one I knew was A2M.

    And that was around 10 years ago that I found that category... Which is very unclean for your partner...

    No kisses afterwards ta.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,750
    RHLSTP
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  • Alwaysneil
    Alwaysneil Posts: 13,806
    Yes, had to google BAE as 'before anyone else' because had naively understood it to be British Aerospace Engineering.

    Which used to also be before anyone else. Thanks Margaret.
  • JiMMy 85
    JiMMy 85 Posts: 10,196
    I don't think this thread is for me. TTFN!
  • CatAddick
    CatAddick Posts: 2,387
    SNAFU adequately describes the SMT
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,037
    You're all getting bae wrong. It's basically the word "babe". Or, it sometimes (but infrequently) can stand for Before Anyone Else - but the acronym is now basically archaic (lol).

    It also means shit in Danish.

    "A2M" is not a thing, unless you mean "ATM" which is "at the moment" (or indeed "automated teller machine"). Or, unless you mean alpha-2-Macroglobulin, which is a large plasma protein as found in blood.

    TL;DR means too long didn't read.
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    Serena Williams was called a Goat by a commentator ?

    Great orbs and tits ?

    Greatest of all time.

  • 1StevieG
    1StevieG Posts: 10,964
    edited July 2016
    Andrew Castle slipped a modern take on an old classic almost without anyone noticing during a women's quarter final at Wimbledon. The player won the match and he said '"she has made it through to the semis, see you next Thursday".
  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961
    Was the A2M the bit leading to the Blackwall Tunnel?
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,794
    PaddyP17 said:

    You're all getting bae wrong. It's basically the word "babe". Or, it sometimes (but infrequently) can stand for Before Anyone Else - but the acronym is now basically archaic (lol).

    It also means shit in Danish.

    "A2M" is not a thing, unless you mean "ATM" which is "at the moment" (or indeed "automated teller machine"). Or, unless you mean alpha-2-Macroglobulin, which is a large plasma protein as found in blood.

    TL;DR means too long didn't read.

    "A2M" - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=533031. Seems to be a thing. Not my kind of thing, but a think none the less.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,794
    EastTerrace said:

    Was the A2M the bit leading to the Blackwall Tunnel?

    A101(M) I believe.
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    AddicksAddict said:

    PaddyP17 said:

    You're all getting bae wrong. It's basically the word "babe". Or, it sometimes (but infrequently) can stand for Before Anyone Else - but the acronym is now basically archaic (lol).

    It also means shit in Danish.

    "A2M" is not a thing, unless you mean "ATM" which is "at the moment" (or indeed "automated teller machine"). Or, unless you mean alpha-2-Macroglobulin, which is a large plasma protein as found in blood.

    TL;DR means too long didn't read.

    "A2M" - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=533031. Seems to be a thing. Not my kind of thing, but a think none the less.
    Disappointing source, expected visual evidence.

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