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Herbal Gamer sh.itjust.works HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-10-30
#52 · Quote Reply
boonhet wrote:
Ah fair enough, I have actually heard of all of those, but I've never played any of them. I think Assassin's Creed is the only one you can really use without mentioning the name first, but true, even then it's too ambiguous.

I think it's because AC [subtitle] is a lot easier to google
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Herbal Gamer sh.itjust.works HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-10-30
#53 · Quote Reply
Inkstainthebat wrote:
I genuinely try to use it bcs I think it's a cool character, but there's really not a lot of situations that warrant one ><

We often just put ?! at the end of a 'shocked' question type, so I guess that's where it would work?

Ex: "OMG DID YOU SEE THAT β€½
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Sadbutdru sopuli.xyz Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-08-13
#54 · Quote Reply
Lucidlethargy wrote:
Acronyms are fucking bullshit. Everyone gets "lol", but stop with the fucking bullshit. You guys have full keyboards. Not the shit we had with out 90's phones. Grow up.

Not everyone gets lots of love, but I'm glad you do ;-)
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Life_inst_bad lemmy.world Life_inst_bad@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-26
#55 · Quote Reply

Man am I and my fried glad we got 3 different fwb.
It's the most iconic heist in Payday.
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bridgeburner lemmy.world bridgeburner@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-30
#56 · Quote Reply

Muricans in a nutshell lol
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Gathorall lemmy.world Gathorall@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-13
#57 · (edited) Quote Reply
bridgeburner wrote:
Muricans in a nutshell lol

I was going to say people of low intelligence and no regard for others, but that's much shorter.
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Lauchmelder feddit.org Lauchmelder@feddit.org
Joined: 2024-06-26
#58 · Quote Reply
Lucidlethargy wrote:
Acronyms are fucking bullshit. Everyone gets "lol", but stop with the fucking bullshit. You guys have full keyboards. Not the shit we had with out 90's phones. Grow up.

abbreviations are a normal part of human language, and have been around since long before the 90s
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brachypelmide lemmy.zip brachypelmide@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-15
#59 · Quote Reply
unmagical wrote:
CP has only one meaning and it's not "control point," "Cyberpunk," or "counter protestors."

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Anarki_ lemmy.blahaj.zone Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-07-03
#60 · Quote Reply
Lucidlethargy wrote:
Acronyms are fucking bullshit. Everyone gets "lol", but stop with the fucking bullshit. You guys have full keyboards. Not the shit we had with out 90's phones. Grow up.

lol. lmao, even.
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bryndos fedia.io bryndos@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-07-28
#61 · Quote Reply
Lauchmelder wrote:
abbreviations are a normal part of human language, and have been around since long before the 90s

Yeah but it got so much worse when that prick Bell came along and started pushing his fucking 'phone in the 1890s.
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bryndos fedia.io bryndos@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-07-28
#62 · Quote Reply
idunnololz wrote:
can you make a valid sentence using the same acronym multiple times but with different meanings?

Most users of LAME are lame unless they are LAME; and it's even more commendable when LAME.
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bryndos fedia.io bryndos@fedia.io
Joined: 2025-07-28
#63 · Quote Reply
d00ery wrote:
What about using idiomatic expressions without punctuation. Shoot, again?

https://www.lynnetruss.com/eats-shoots-leaves
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LemmyThinkAboutIt lemmy.zip LemmyThinkAboutIt@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-05
#64 · Quote Reply
Anarki_ wrote:
lol. lmao, even.

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ParadoxSeahorse lemmy.world ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#65 · Quote Reply
saltesc wrote:
It's a defence mechanism. I want to scare people away from trying to participate in a topic they know nothing about but feel like an expert in. Those that do know about the acronyms are worth the while. Edit: I don't have autism.

MTDPTM: Methinks they doth protest too much
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ParadoxSeahorse lemmy.world ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-29
#66 · Quote Reply
unmagical wrote:
CP has only one meaning and it's not "control point," "Cyberpunk," or "counter protestors."

Clown Party
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BjΓΆrn swg-empire.de bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
Joined: 2023-07-08
#67 · Quote Reply

IMHO it would at least be nice to bring some of the older internet acronyms back.
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Smoogs lemmy.world Smoogs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
#68 · (edited) Quote Reply
Gathorall wrote:
I was going to say people of low intelligence and no regard for others, but that's much shorter.

We can go longer: People who despise the entire point of communicating and language and better off just grunting like a caveperson
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Takios discuss.tchncs.de Takios@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2024-04-11
#69 · Quote Reply
SippyCup wrote:
My favorite movie character: JC

They made a movie out of DE?
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Alberat lemmy.world Alberat@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-03
#70 · Quote Reply
Lucidlethargy wrote:
Acronyms are fucking bullshit. Everyone gets "lol", but stop with the fucking bullshit. You guys have full keyboards. Not the shit we had with out 90's phones. Grow up.

ikr
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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#71 · Quote Reply
Smoogs wrote:
We can go longer: People who despise the entire point of communicating and language and better off just grunting like a caveperson

They dont despise it, they only use it to inflate their ego. They see communication as a tool to build themselves up. They literally never consider others around them. I call it main character syndrome because they treat everyone like NPCs.
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Rekorse sh.itjust.works Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2024-08-30
#72 · Quote Reply
Lauchmelder wrote:
abbreviations are a normal part of human language, and have been around since long before the 90s

They are right though, we came up with lol and stuff like that because texting on a keypad was tedious. Its not really useful in the way it was back then, its just stuck around from popular use.
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Jollyllama lemmy.world Jollyllama@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-05
#73 · Quote Reply

smh, just because you're out of touch doesn't mean everybody else needs to be lmao.
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Kintarian lemmy.world Kintarian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-23
#74 · Quote Reply
LemmyThinkAboutIt wrote:

ROFLOL
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Kintarian lemmy.world Kintarian@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-23
#75 · Quote Reply
π•Ύπ–•π–Žπ–ˆπ–ž π•Ώπ–šπ–“π–† wrote:
Get a government job. You'll hear more acronyms in 2 hours than you've heard in the last year.

Or IT. PCMCIA
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Inkstainthebat pawb.social Inkstainthebat@pawb.social
Joined: 2025-03-16
#76 · Quote Reply
Herbal Gamer wrote:
We often just put ?! at the end of a 'shocked' question type, so I guess that's where it would work? Ex: "OMG DID YOU SEE THAT β€½

Ye that's exactly how it works!
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