OMG! FYI, the OED is like all TMI. Can we still be BFF? LOL.

FYI - I'll be screwed if I have to write - or read - initialized netspeak. Took me half an hour to get what OED and TMI stand for. 'Course it is a good workout, brainwise.




Great posts, discussion. And thanks for that link manta.

reply to post by soficrow


If real life were like a civilizations game, I'm convinced this would be like a civics upgrade.

The dictionary used to be some serious authority in the past. This is just another example of authorities falling to the bent of the masses.

I hate you ihy -or- i

Stop overreacting. EVERYTHING on this site somehow gets spun into the end of civilization. I wonder if people said this when contractions were put in the dictionary.

The one and only problem I see with using these acronyms is this:

***** TMI Three Mile Island
***** TMI Too Much Information
***** TMI Transactions on Medical Imaging
**** TMI TRMM Microwave Imager
**** TMI Texas Military Institute
**** TMI The Mountain Institute (West Virginia)
**** TMI Total Market Index (Dow Jones STOXX)
**** TMI Treasury Management International (London, England, UK)
*** TMI Trans-Mars Injection
*** TMI Total Magnetic Intensity
*** TMI Total Marrow Irradiation
*** TMI Texas Materials Institute
*** TMI Trainable Mentally Impaired
*** TMI Teen Missions International
*** TMI Top Mount Intercooler
*** TMI Transmarginal Inhibition (psychology)
*** TMI Tauber Manufacturing Institute (University of Michigan Business School & College of Engineering) *** TMI Tennessee Military Institute

etc...

Source

reply to post by Throwback


We're also having "fun: for a change!!

Imagine that, fun on Above Top Secret (herein known as ATS)

reply to post by PsykoOps


back in the 60's lol stood for little old lady.

all these aging hippies are going to be totally fubared as a result of this snafu.


someone needs to fix the dictionary, asap.

reply to post by Crakeur


No way, that will just be too much acid lurking in the knee joints that doing the fubaring and snafuing. may even be a little rolfing

Actually in my teens Rofling meant blowing chunks!! but there you go!

Urban Dictionary

if any of you codgers, fogies, or coffin dodgers need any help understanding your kids. Here is a good resource. Just don't try an use it in live conversation with them. as we know we all put too much emphasis on it, and just sound desperate needy and sad.

Which we are!!

reply to post by PsykoOps


The "problem" you mention has a super easy solution, and I can sum it up in one word:

Context!

reply to post by JakiusFogg


it really is Flamzagladiding!!!!!

srsly!!

CTO

1. Flamazagladiding 1 up, 1 down buy flamazagladiding mugs, tshirts and magnets Beyond super amazing. Word you use instead of amazing especially when your spazzing. You know your going to hawaii for the summer. THATS FLAMAZAGLADIDING!

UD

WTF, that is FUBAR

reply to post by unityemissions


It's not so super easy imho. Thing is that for example tmi is also a finnish acronym meaning toiminimi (business name). Some acronyms have tons and tons of meanings and I can see how that can get difficult to keep track of even with context.

Originally posted by JakiusFogg

And what the hell is ROFLCOPTERS!

If I'm correct it comes from one of those emoticons where one is rolling on the floor laughing with legs and feet waving around in the air.. a bit like a form of break dancing..

In a way there is a benefit of these 'net speak' comments.. it can help greatly when you're trying to avoid a confrontational discussion without having to explain yourself for pages and pages.

i think one of the big problems is the way that is the same as LOL, you just can't say in a language...but you can laugh..

Which is kinda odd really.. we can use as much as we like, but using LOL all day long on ATS may be frowned upon...

The change in language is an interesting topic.. I'm sure our children's children will have an even stranger set of words than we do today.. There are so many words abbreviated or taken from other languages and used daily in, lets say, English..

Cul de sac is used in English road signs.. I once had a conversation with some French people regarding the use of these words and they had no idea what i was talking about..

Foorsooth, egads, take thyne eyes and broaden thee thy horizons

reply to post by PsykoOps


Double whammy here

Hows this for context!!

1) Three Mile Island, a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, PA that leaked radiation in 1979 one time but is still operational. 2) Too Much Information Tex: "So how's that job at TMI going?" Billy Bob: "Pretty good, at least since that accident way back when which made me grow a third ear on my ass." Tex: "Damn dogg, TMI!"

reply to post by PsykoOps


Well it seems to me that txt shorthand was invented out of necessity, Ty Plato It benefits us by being more productive with our energies. It seems logical that if it's no longer effective, it will be dropped. That point hasn't been reached, and while im sure there is some shorthand that can be applied a bit too much for certain regions/cultures, this doesn't seem to be the case on the whole, else...see previous statement.

reply to post by JakiusFogg


that was ralphing.

the word ralph, to vomit, came from the sound one makes when vomiting.

raaaaalph...

it's like burping, only with a to go package

reply to post by Extralien


That would be Ye Gads.

Short for "the gods"

Just like Corblimey, was short for God blind me!!

Interesting stuff!

reply to post by Crakeur


Not where I was from mate. Rolfing was rolfing, ralfing was what southerns did. Rolfing was harder and louder!!

Even so, it happens so fast

Example, episode of "Freinds", where Joey is not wearing any underwear or "going commando" not 1 year later had been adopted by the teeny-boppers in my area. Except by then they said you "had your combats on!!"

Odd!

reply to post by unityemissions


on the contrary, it is further proof that the generations get lazier as we evolve.

when I was a kid we had to stand up and walk across the room if we wanted to change the channels. we had to go thru the arduous task of putting our finger in a dial and rotating a disc to make a phone call. we used the postal service to send people letters.

technology is designed to make things easier for us so we can grow fat and consume more garbage.

when the internet first blossomed, what did it accomplish?

we no longer had to walk across the room and sift thru an encyclopedia or a dictionary to find something. we no longer had to go to blockbuster or barnes and noble to get books and movies. we could, at any hour of the night, get just about anything we needed, delivered to our door, or our monitor.

all without getting off our ever widening rumps.

Originally posted by Crakeur
reply to post by unityemissions

 

when the internet first blossomed, what did it accomplish?

Above top secret dot com (herein known as ATS)



PS Seeing as .com as an extension name is in itself an abbreviation of company.

Should that not be

above top secret dot com dot ?????

AHHHH Three mile island eeer I mean Too much information!!!