ACRONYMS USED IN THE COMPUTER COMMUNITY
This is a list translating those strange acronyms you see in cyberspace messages.
Much of it is based on a file called CISexp.doc compiled by Josh Mandel. That file
included earlier files by James Bach & Joan Friedman.
Other contributors since are: Sally Neuman, Neil Rubenking, Orville Fudpucker,
Dave Konkel, William Crockett, and Rey Barry.
True Acronyms
Acronym Expansion
AA Alcoholics Anonymous
AAA Travel club
AAAAA Travel club for alcoholics
ADN Any Day Now
AFAIK As Far As I Know
AFK Away From the Keyboard
AKA Also known as
AWGTHTGTTA Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
B4N Bye for Now
BAD Broken as Designed
BAMF Bad Assed Motherf****er
BBL Be Back Later
BBR Burnt Beyond Repair
BBS Bulletin Board System
BFD Big F***in' Deal
BIOYIOP Blow It Out Your I/O Port
BISD Built-in s**t detector
BOFH Bastard operator from hell (UNIX), from bofh.ntk.net
BRB Be Right Back
BRS Big Red Switch
BSOD Blue screen of death (PMS Microsoft style)
BTA But Then Again (in response to IOW)
BTW By The Way
BYAM Between you and me
BWQ Buzz Word Quotient
CI$ Compu$erve Information Service
CTS Consider the source
CU See you
CUL See you Later
CUL8R See you Later
DIIK Damned If I Know
DILLIGAF Does It Look Like I Give A F***
DIY Do it yourself
DL or D/L Download, transmit to you
DTP DeskTop Publishing
DTRT Do The Right Thing
DWIMC Do What I Mean, Correctly
EAPG Early American Pressed Glass
EOT End Of Thread (ie. don't reply to this message)
ES&D Eat S**t and Die
ESABATM> Eat S**t And Bark at the Moon
ETLA Extended Three Letter Acronym
FFRD Flying F*** in a Rolling Donut (I don't give one)
FHOF Freeware Hall of Fame
FISH First In, Still Here
FITB Fill In The Blank
FLMN Four letter mnemonic name (cf. TLA)
FOAF Friend of A Friend
FOB Fresh off the Boat
FOOBAR Variant of FUBAR (q.v.)
FOS Freedom Of Speech; Full Of S**t
FRED F***ing Ridiculous Electronic Device
FTM, RTFC Forget the manual, read the f***ing code
FTTT From Time To Time
FUBAR F***ed Up Beyond All Repair
FTW F*** the World
FUD Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
FURTB Full up ready to burst (about hard disk drives)
FWIW For What It's Worth
FY&TSYRIO F*** You And The Sysop You Rode In On
FYA&E For your amusement and edification
FYDITM F*** You Directly In The Mouth
FYI For Your Information
g Grin
GAFIA Get Away From It All
gd&r grinning, ducking and running
gd&arf grinning, ducking and running FAST!
gd&arvvf grinning, ducking and running VERY VERY FAST!
gd&aw grinning, ducking and weaving
GFR Grim File Reaper (pervasive data destroyer)
GFY Good for you, or Go f*** yourself, depending on context
GH Getting Hard
GIGO Garbage In, Garbage Out
GIWIST Gee, I Wish I'd Said That
GLGH Good Luck and Good Hunting
GMTA Great Minds Think Alike
GW Getting Wet
HIIK Hell if I Know
HMOFG or HMFG Holy Mother Of F***ing God.
HTH Hope this helps
IAC In Any Case
IAE In Any Event
IANAL/A/D/B I am not a lawyer/attorney/doctor, but
IC I See
IDTT I'll Drink To That
IIRC If I recall correctly
IITYWIMIWHTKY If I tell you what it means, I will have to kill you
IITYWIMWYBMAD If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a drink
ILTNMMAMOTC. I'd like to nominate Mike Meyer as moderator of that conference.
HYCFAPMSFTJ Honestly you couldn't find a person more suited for the job.
ILY I Love You
IMAO In My Arrogant Opinion
IMCO In my considered opinion
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO In My Opinion
IMOBO In My Own Biased Opinion.
INPO In No Particular Order
IOW In Other Words
IWBNI It Would Be Nice If
IYFEG Insert Your Favorite Ethnic Group
JIC Just In Case
JSNM Just Stark Naked Magic
JTYWTK Just Thought You Wanted To Know
KMYF Kiss Me You Fool
L8R Later
LAB&TYD Life's A Bitch & Then You Die.
LLTA; LALOTA Lots and Lots of Thunderous Applause
LMAO Laughing My Ass Off
LMWIS Lick Me Where I Sweat
LOL Laughing Out Loud (originally - now in chat groups the equivalent
of a teenager's overused and meaningless "y'know")
MLA Multiple Letter Acronym
MOTAS Member of the Appropriate Sex
MOTOS Member of the Opposite Sex
MOTSS Member of the Same Sex
NFW No F***ing Way
NIMBY Not in my backyard
NIXON When you can't say s**t, ie "Take a Nixon"
NSS No S**t, Sherlock
OIC Oh, I See
ONLY Used by shareware authors who over-price, ie. "Only $99.95."
OOTC Obligatory On Topic Comment
OTF On the Floor
OTOH On The Other Hand
OTTH On the third hand
PABG Pack a Big Gun
PCYLIHOONL Please Cross Your Legs, I Have Only One Nail Left
PITA Pain In The Ass
PLOKTA Press Lots Of Keys To Abort
PMBI Pardon my butting in
PMFBI Pardon Me For Butting In
POSSLQ Person of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
POV Point Of View
PTB Powers that be
RE Regarding
ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off
ROTFLAHMS Rolling On The Floor Laughing And Holding My Side
RPG Role Playing Games
RSN Real Soon Now
RTFM Read The F***ing Manual
SFLA Stupid Four Letter Acronym
SIG Special Interest Group
SMO; SMON Serious Mode On
SMOP Small Matter of Programming
SMOff Serious Mode Off
SNAFU Situation Normal - All F***ed Up
SO Significant Other
SOB Son of a bitch
SPAM Junk email (from SPiced hAM, Hormel's junk meat)
ST-TNG Star Trek, The Next Generation
ST-TOS Star Trek, The Original Series
STI/ST-TMP Star Trek, The Motion Picture
STII/ST-WOK Star Trek, Wrath of Khan
STIII/ST-SFS Star Trek, Search for Spock
STIV/ST-TVH Star Trek, The Voyage Home
STV/ST-TFF Star Trek, The Final Frontier
STVI/ST-TUC Star Trek, The Undiscovered Country
SWMBO She Who Must Be Obeyed
SYSOP SYStem OPerator, aka God
TAFN That's All For Now
TAFT That's a frightening thought
TANJ There Ain't No Justice
TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TNSTAAFL There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch
TDM Too Damn Many
TGIF Thank God Its Friday
TIA Thanks In Advance
TIATLG Truly, I Am The Living God
TLA Three Letter Acronym
TLG The Living God
TPTB The Powers That Be
TSJD Texas Size Jelly Donut - official food of Texas sysops
TSR Terminate and Stay Resident program
TTBOMK To The Best Of My Knowledge
TTFN Ta-Ta For Now
TTL4N That's The Lot For Now
TTUL Talk (or Type) To You Later
UAE Unrecoverable application error (Bane of Windows users)
UL or U/L Upload, send to the BBS
WFM Works For Me
WIMP Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pointing
WOFTAM Waste Of F***ing Time And Money
WRT With Regard To
WTF What the F***
WTFDIK What the F*** Do I Know
WYGIWYPF What You Get Is What You Pay For
WYITF Wrapping yourself in the flag (Like KY Jelly adopting the slogan:
"In order to form a more perfect union?")
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
YABA Yet Another Bloody Acronym
YMMV Your Mileage May Vary.
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