KMA = Kiss My Arm
YBC = You Blinking Charmer
FFS = For Flips Sake
WTF = Why The Frown
GFYS = Gosh Flip You're Silly
FYYMF = Forget You, You Motor Freak

[Edited by jods - 11/8/2002 12:24:25 AM]

 

Being a newbie I am having some trouble with some of the abbreviations i.e. IMHO, JDM etc... Is there anywhere on this site that has a list of these? If not, would it be a good idea to?

Sorry for being so fick!!!

 

heres a few

BTTT = back to the top (puts thread at top of list)
IMHO = In my honest opinion
AFAIK = As far as i know
LOL = laughing out loud
LMAO = Laughing my **** off
YHM = You have mail

and so on

 

Thanks P20SPD that is a great help!

 

[pedantic hat on]

they're acronyms actually, not abbreviations

[pedantic hat off]

do carry on

 

Have a look on here

 

I always thought that IMHO was in my humble opinion, with IMNSHO being in my not-so humble opinion and IMO as in my opinion.

There's also IIRC - If I recall correctly.

Mice.

 

[even more pedantic hat on]Actually they're not, because they don't spell a word that you pronounce. For example, BTTT is 'bee-tee-tee-tee' not 'bttt'.

See http://www.alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxacrony.html

 

You've been hanging out with Mark too long Carl

 

No, that's If I Remember Correctly.

 

Yes, I'm afraid it was Mark who pointed me at the alt.usage.english FAQ. And what an entertaining read it is too (previously I had to rely on my hardcopy of Fowler's).

 

Recall / Recollect / Remember...

They all mean much of a muchness. Well, (for the pedants ) they don't mean "much of a muchness"...

 

Also, why is Abbreviations such a long word?

 

I don't wish to be a pedant but a hat cannot be pedantic however it can be a pedants hat. Got that ?

 

Or a Pedant's Hat, even.

 

Should that be "pedant's hat" rather than "Pedant's Hat", as it's not a proper noun? Or something?

 

FFSHYLGSMITDRTCTFOOEH

 

 

SOEE

Scooby On East Enders

Sorry

David

 

And then back on to track

JDM = Japanese Domestic Market (They don't like to be called Imports!

BTW = By the way.

and so on

Iain.

 

took me almost a fortnight to figure out what DBM meant... didn't wana appear stupit so i never asked

 

? WTF D DBM M YMF ?

 

We don't want to get into the Dark Vs Deep Blue Mica argument do we now

Everyone knows it's Dark Blue Mica

Jon
MY00 DBM Sport

Ps. MY = Manufactured Year (or in my case year of first reg as it is a classic shape )

 

I though it was 'Dark blue metallic' ????

 

BTW sometime ago there was a guy who posted (cut & paste to be pedantic) just about every imanginable TLA (three letter abbreviation) and 4 and 5 and 6 etc letter abbreviation too.

Anyone got the link, it was very comprehensive.

Not sure if FFS was on the list though.
Pretty obvious I guess, so maybe not needed !!

 

Surely it should be pedants' hat?

 

Oi, stop stealing my lines.

And besides, unless the hat is worn/belongs to more than one pedant, no, it shouldn't.

 

FFSHYLGSMITDRTCTFOOEH = For flips sake haven't you lot got something more interesting to do rather than confusing the **** out of everyone here.

Obviously not

 

But as a generic thing it's a pedants' hat, i.e. a hat worn by pedants.

 

MY is Model Year. i.e. for a long time the new model each year came out in the october before

i.e. I have a MY'95 that was actually registered in Dec '94.

Deano