YWNBAM/YWNBAW. Besides being transphobic (it's short for 'you will never be a man/woman'), I always automatically attempt to read/pronounce acronyms as if they were words, and this one sounds really stupid.
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Yikes, I've never seen these ones before but I hope they're confined to the back alleys of the internet and you don't see them too much
TBF
To Be Fucked.
I have a weird thing where I'll know an acronym that's close to another one, confuse the two, and come up with a new acronym that doesn't exist or make sense, but it "works" and then the rest of the context is just off.
The latest victim of this is "Assigned Cis At Birth"
Now that that's out in the world, I'm sorry that someone else is going to do the same thing...
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IKR required a search to figure out. Autocorrect takes care of these typical phrases. Imo the only one I like to use is imo for some reason.
My least favourite acronym:
- AUTMA: Americans use too many acronyms
Like all of them, I never remember what they mean and there are some people at work who love to use em. It just makes meetings take longer and emails become less legible.
ICYMI (in case you missed it) and IYKYK (if you know, you know) which frequently get crossed in my head
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