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Fan communities create their own acronyms and abbreviations, to make it easier to speak about the works they love. An AaAO is when this is taken so far that it is so downright confusing you can't tell a story about broadcasting in the CoN from a sex scandal involving Black politicians in the USA. For example, if you have visited online gaming communities, you've likely seen it already many times. You're simply SOL against the BBEG, so you GFGI to find a FAQ for how to get to the PoPL so you can LG your MP to godly levels and render him FUBAR. And the FAQ is composed entirely of shorthand, rendering it illegible. When used in media (as opposed to being used in talking about media), it tends to feature in an Expospeak Gag or aiding the resident MM. Or both. Not to be confused with Fun with Acronyms, because that trope is about acronyms that are humorous rather than accurate, as opposed to simply having too many acronyms to remember, or acronyms that you'd have to be an insider of the community to know. A slew of acronyms tends to follow around luminaries whose multifarious titles and degrees would be impossible to fit on a business card if fully written out. This was the most common form of this trope before acronyms became widespread in names of government agencies and military jargon. See also Knight Fever for those acronyms that stem from British/Commonwealth honours. When writers include an overload of acronyms, they usually do so in the hope that you'll end up R.O.T.F.L.O.L.Y.F.A.O. Occasionally they'll throw in some acronyms that refer to Deadly Euphemisms along with more benign euphemisms in the hopes that you'll do a mental Double Take and think O.M.F.G.! Can lead to Acronym Confusion. May also result in Acronyms Are Easy as Aybeecee, when people mistake the acronyms for regular words. |
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There's a lot of this in Line of Duty, where the main character is an AFO for AC-12, investigating corruption in TO-20 and CID, to the point that the Hogmanay 2019 episode of Only an Excuse? did a sort of meta-parody, where the characters complained about shallow parodies that only did jokes about the acronyms. On the same year's Hogmanay Live, Susan Calman ran an impromptu quiz in which her guests (including LoD star Martin Compston) had to identify LoD acronyms. He didn't win. | |
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From the final episode of Come Back Mrs. Noah. | |
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A Bug's Life has Flik shouting out random abbreviations to Atta in order to make his meeting with the "warriors" sound official and top-secret. His choices? "D.M.Z.", "A.S.A.P", "B.Y.O.B."... | |
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Ryotaro Dojima, from Peachi's Persona 4 comic: | |
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Hair uses a lot of acronyms in the lyrics of "Hashish" and "Initials." Appearing in both are "L.S.D." and "I.R.T." | |
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Monster Hunter sees quite a bit of use of this in the fanbase. SnS, HBG, LS, GS, Cap, Pots, Cools, Hots are a few. Of those, only Cap is used by the game, and only on the results screen. | |
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Ancient Domains of Mystery: (ADOM) The guidebook has all kinds of abbreviations that make it downright illegible unless you read the compiled list of acronyms and abbreviations. And the equipment pages in said guidebook have their own specific abbreviations that aren't in the list of abbreviations. One of the biggest offenders is the TotRR, which has tags like Ma+24, =Elec, +WBre, +SeeI, -Deth, and !Demo. Oh, and it increases your DV/PV by 12. | |
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The Rock Band fan community reduces song names to acronyms, such as GGaHT (that's Green Grass and High Tides). | |
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MS Paint Adventures from Problem Sleuth onwards, so much that the wiki has an Acronym Cheatsheet. | |
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Cheers: Frasier introduces Lilith for the first time: | |
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According to Homer Simpson, BTO are Canada's answer to ELP, and their big hit was TCB.note Takin' Care Of Business Also, according to him, that's how they talked in The '70s. | |
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The X-Universe series fandom is so loaded with three-letter-acronyms ("The CBSE OWP was destroyed by an OOS Q carrying IBLs, luckily it ignored the CLS fleet since they had no JDs") that the developers put up a guide to them on the game's FAQ. | |
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Nethack: The IRC channel often combines this with the in-game symbols used to represent the various items; so a late game ascension kit might contain (among other things) [oMR, "oLS, a cursed !oGL and plenty of /oD. | |
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Parodied in an early episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, when Kensi and Deeks run into other agents (who end up being foreign operatives) while on a case and end up in a Mexican Standoff, necessitating a variation in a Rocky Roll Call. | |
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In the Gravedale High episode "Save Our School", a health inspector named Nitpicker had a habit of giving abbreviations for everything, like saying D.D.W. for "downright dirty water" or L.T.S. for "life-threatening situation". Thankfully, he clarifies the meaning behind all the abbreviations immediately after stating them. | |
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"FYI I Wanna F Your A" by Ninja Sex Party | |
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In Town of Salem, wills are often written with acronyms and abbreviations. For example, the investigator's results for a bodyguard would be "The person could be either a Bodyguard, a Godfather or an Arsonist", it would often be abbreviated as "BG GF Arso". | |
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The team of Discworld wizards who work on Hex do this a bunch — Hex is a computer made out of an ant farm and some common household implements, including an FTB (fuzzy teddy bear), a CWL (clothes wringer from the laundry), and the like. A number of these acronyms are references to real-life ones, generally from computing (such as "FTB", a play on "FTP," an Internet protocol). At one point they admit that "initialise the GBL" just sounds more impressive than "pull the great big lever". | |
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Skin Horse: Pretty much what you'd expect when you have G.O.D.O.T., the Genetic Organism Designed Only for Thought. G.O.D.O.T. was used by the military to create acronyms, and then to create backronyms until it went mad because it was given a project title it couldn't backronymise. | |
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Also, there's a tendency in online conversations to refer to media properties and creators by their initials, even if they're being mentioned for the first time. Seems to happen especially in video game discussions, where some massively popular games are referred to exclusively that way — WOW, LOL, GTA, and PUBG come to mind. But then you'll run into That Guy who just drops a pile of capital letters into a conversation and at best you might be able to guess from context what medium it's in. | |
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In one episode of Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Top Cat calls the treasure hunters this way: | |
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The Hair Bear Bunch: Bananas the Gorilla is disguised as a doctor treating Square Bear (feigning an injury to get three hots and a cot from zookeeper Peevly). He identifies himself as Dr. Rudolph Von Faker—M.D., Ph. D., A.B. and P.D.Q. | |
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Terminal Lance: is drawn by a Marine, for Marines. Non-Marines are strongly advised to have the Wikipedia page on USMC acronyms and expressions open and ready for reference. | |
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Blythe Baxter from Littlest Pet Shop (2012) often uses acronyms in place of short sentences, such as G.M.M.T. ("Good morning, Mrs. Twombly"), or D.W.A.A.T. ("Don't worry about a thing"), claiming it's a "way more efficient way" of saying things. Mrs. Twombly, the elderly owner of Littlest Pet Shop, even lampshades this at one point. | |
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In Die Hard 2, McClane uses this technique to create confusion while he illicitly fingerprints a corpse: | |
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And if you think that's bad, you should see Exalted. Acronyms like VAP,note Void Avatar Prana PoCB,note Protection of Celestial Bliss SSE,note Seven Shadow Evasion GSNF,note Green Sun Nimbus Flare and SCSnote Solar Circle Sorcery are all thrown around. Exalted terminology is so flowery that typing all the Charms out in full could take weeks. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: DND tends to suffer from this, because of the number of precise terms; AC, DR, CL (this one's even context-sensitive), DC, etc. etc. Oddly enough, there's no way to abbreviate "Denied your dex bonus to AC" any further. | |
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A sixth series episode of Top Gear (UK) saw James May come up with a satirical classified car advert almost entirely written in three-letter acronyms. | |
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Dwarf Fortress: Done deliberately by the DF community; talk of the GCS's, FB's, and the HFS prevents spoilers. Also overlaps with Insistent Terminology. The succession LP's also have lots of FWA just FTW. | |
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On Neopets, this happens frequently within the community. It's particularly common in the Neopian Pound section of the Neoboards, where a single visit can result in seeing dozens of these. It's not unusual to see a thread titled "UC VWN Mara Gelert UFT" (unconverted very well named Maraquan Gelert up for trade), or someone celebrating a recent FFQ (Fountain Faerie quest). | |
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The song "Arse End of the Earth" from Keating! The Musical: | |
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The Battle for Wesnoth community has a lot of this. HttT, TSG, AoI, SoF, THoT, DA, HI, WM, ZoC, CtH, HAPMA... almost all campaigns, units and gameplay elements are abbreviated; as seen here. | |
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Adrian Mole generally dislikes abbreviations, preferring to spell out phrases such as National Health Service (usually written NHS) in full. However, occasionally he writes sentences in abbreviations: In Weapons of Mass Destruction, the Running Gag that everyone says "a swan can break a man's arm, you know" is replaced on one occasion with "A.S.C.B.A.M.A.Y.K.". In Wilderness Years: having hoped that his grandma never finds out that Bert Baxter gave him a bed for the night, he writes "G. knows about B&B at B.B's. She saw B.B. in C&A." |
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In the Simple Samosa episode "Jalebi's Birthday", when Jalebi talks about her various accomplishments to Vada as she is helping him to climb the escalator, she shortens her speech to several acronyms when he tells her to hurry up. | |
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In the Phineas and Ferb episode "Backyard Aquarium", Dr. Doofenshmirtz shows off his latest -inators: | |
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Vernon from You're the Worst talks mostly like that: | |
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob): FAITH (the Free American Independent Theocratic Hegemony) really likes acronyms, as a minor Take That! to the current American government. SURGE, SUDDAR, HEAVEN... the list goes on. We never even learn what half of them are supposed to mean. | |
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London's Burning is littered with Fire Brigade jargon, like ADO, DO, ACO, FIT, FRU, EVAC, BA, DSU, RTA and ALP. Likewise, its counterparts CASUAL+Y, Holby City and The Bill. | |
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Kaeloo: In one episode, Stumpy tries to get a girlfriend by talking to random girls online. When one girl replies to his message, she uses a lot of acronyms like ROFL and BWL, which confuses him so much he ends up rejecting her. | |
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And then you realize none of these hold a candle to HERO System, FREd (itself an acronym). Not only are the 11 some-odd ability scores abbreviated, but then there's the OCV, the DCV, OSL, DSL, RSL, HKA, RKA, OAF, OIF, etc. | |
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Basil Ganglia from Hanazuki: Full of Treasures shares a telepathic link with other giant brains like him that he calls the ECNYWYWAPO (pronounced "ECK-en-yew-yew-APP-oh"), which stands for "Elite Cerebral Network You Wish You Were a Part Of". | |
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A M*A*S*H episode has Hawkeye and Trapper trying to procure an incubator for the 4077. At one point they're summoned to Henry Blake's office and, after turning down his offer of a drink, are introduced to an Obstructive Bureaucrat sent from headquarters: | |
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Comes up sometimes in NCIS (it's even in the title) when they start talking about the FBI, the CIA, NSA, NCIS, CGIS, or the rest of the alphabet soup. Or when they're dealing with SECNAV (Secretary of the Navy). Parodied in an early episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, when Kensi and Deeks run into other agents (who end up being foreign operatives) while on a case and end up in a Mexican Standoff, necessitating a variation in a Rocky Roll Call. |
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The season opener of Red vs. Blue Season 15 has a reporter entering a restricted area because she strings off enough initalisms, some of which aren't military or even abbreviations, to confuse the guard. | |
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From Spy Hard: | |
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A Very Potter Musical (AVPM), A Very Potter Sequel (AVPS), and A Very Potter Senior Year (AVPSY), a trilogy of plays by Team StarKid. | |
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Anime Slushie: The overuse of government agencies with convoluted acronyms in Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka becomes a Running Gag during the series' episode. In the episode's promo, Feen fills a chalkboard with several of these bizarre acronyms (complete with guest appearances from the M.G.P.T.C. and E.L.O., just for kicks) in an effort to explain the plot to a very bewildered Cube. | |
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In the Hercules: The Animated Series episode in Spartan Academy, Icarus has two lines full of military acronyms, with the second having him note he doesn't know what many those abbreviations mean, he just likes talking like that. | |
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Discussions of Pokémon can slip into this, with some of the more nuanced mechanics being referred to via acronyms such as STAB (Same Type Attack Bonus), EV (Effort Value), and IV (Individual Value). Additionally, competitive battlers use acronyms for tiers and some strategies. Further complicating conversations is that EVs and IVs are referred to differently by the in-game descriptions and the fandom, thanks to both having originally been hidden game mechanics with no official names - by the time there was official terminology, the fans had long since invented their own terms and gotten used to using them. | |
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The Danger Mouse episode "Journey To The Earth's 'Cor!" had our heroes in the center of the earth with DM's car frozen in mid-air. They come to a door marked "C.H.M.F.F.G." (which Penfold phonetically pronounces as "Chimuffguh"). It stands for "Car Holding Magnetic Force Field Generator." | |
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Young Sheldon: In S2 E22 "A Swedish Science Thing and the Equation for Toast", George starts charging Georgie a P.I.M.A. ("Pain In My Ass") tax for buying cable TV and not sharing it with the rest of the family. Justified, as Mary probably wouldn't approve of George swearing at Georgie. | |
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TV Tropes itself. Those new to the community might have to have CMoA,note “Crowning Moment of Awesome�, a deprecated term for “Awesome Moment� YMMV,note “Your Mileage May Vary� and YKTTWnote “You Know That Thing Where...�, now "Trope Launch Pad" explained to them. | |
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In the Leverage episode "The Boiler Room Job", Hardison, posing as a fake stockbroker, claims to be a member of several alphabetic organizations, including the JLA. | |
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Chloe from Granblue Fantasy occasionally slips out some of these: She greets the captain a happy birthday by saying "HBD" four times. She also does this again during New Years, saying "HNY". She even teaches Lyria the meaning of "BFF". Chloe has a "QT"◊ Raid Sticker. And since players can outright spam stickers when in a raid, this trope can even take full effect in-game when deliberately done by the players. |
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This exchange in The R.M.: | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "h2g2" is the fan-accepted abbreviation for The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in all its incarnations: radio series, books, TV series, LP record, computer games and film. (two "h"'s, two "g"'s). This is a lot simpler and easier than typing The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy on each and every occurrence. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War wiki has many acronyms made up by players. The Dakkadakka Forum even has tooltips for the most commonly used initialisms. Which isn't to say that the tabletop game itself doesn't have its own crunchers. The best is probably AP — standing for Armor Piercing, the mechanic and rating that counters personal armor, although you could be forgiven for thinking that it meant Armor Penetration, the mechanic that affects vehicle armor. When talking about statlines, expect to see the terms GEQ (Guardsman EQuivalent), MEQ (Marine EQuivalent), and TEQ (Terminator EQuivalent) a lot. | |
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In the opening scenes of I Was a Male War Bride (1949) — one of the earliest American films to address this trope — French army captain Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) approaches the guard post at an Allied armed forces office building in post-war Germany. He asks the guard for directions to the "OICAMGWAC". (Being Cary Grant, he reads it rhythmically and deliberately so it sounds like "O.I.C. - A.M.G. - W.A.C.") Directed to the first floor, he finds office doors labeled "WAIRCO" (which he reads as "War Administration Industrial Relations Coordinator's Office") and "SOSDPPDD" ("Service of Supplies Displaced Persons Property Disposal Department") before finding the ladies restroom. He begins to misinterpret this as "Labor Administration Department Inter..." when a WAC (Women's Army Corps) tech corporal exits. She directs him across the hall to yet another door labeled "CDMTWR". The meanings of the first and last acronyms are not explained. | |
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Edward Verres, from El Goonish Shive: | |
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StarCraft: Most of the Goliath's Stop Poking Me! quotes. The Goliath in StarCraft II has many quotes reused, but also has the previous quote from GoodMorningVietnam. | |
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The original NES Final Fantasy contains hundreds of these due to space issues. Enemy varieties often have their special adjectives cut down to two or three letters, meaning that instead of Grey Imps and Green Ogres, you have to face down armies of much funnier-sounding GrIMPs and GrOGREs. Spell names were also hit particularly hard, with names no more than four letters long. What exactly the spells did was often unclear. ("What the hell is AFIR?") | |
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Stick around any Final Fantasy X discussion and acronyms starting with "N", each representing a Self-Imposed Challenge, will start to pop up: NSG (No Sphere Grid) and NSGIE (No Sphere Grid, Initial Equipment) to name two examples, and the ultimate Self-Imposed Challenge: NSGNSNCNONENNENBB (No Sphere Grid, No Summon, No Customization, No Overdrives, No Escape, No "No Encounters", No Blitzball). | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: An MPFC LP had this as the basis for a sketch IIRC. | |
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Tons in InvestiGators are shown, especially from S.U.I.T. Examples include: Very Exciting Spy Technology (V.E.S.T.) Apparel Research and Manufacturing (A.R.M.S.) S.U.I.T’s Other Underground Passages (Code S.O.U.P) |
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JAG uses lots of military terminology. Often played straight, but sometimes played for laughs, as in this bit of dialogue from "Crossing the Line": | |
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While not an example in itself, the fandom of Safehold loves those. Sometimes even experienced forum-goers have to ask others just what they meant by writing something like: The names of the books are also shortened (in order: OAR, BSRA, BHD, AMF, HFaF, MTaT, LAMA and HFQ) and even the appendices at the end of the newer books use them to refer to other parts of the series. |
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In the Dota 2 and The Stanley Parable crossover, the narrator of TSP opens dota games with this on occasion. | |
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Modelland is positively full of acronyms, strange portmanteaux, and Letters 2 Numbers, to such an extent that if you don't find at least three on a page, you're reading the wrong book. | |
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All over Wiz Biz series. Programmers love them, everybody else frown. | |
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The Warrior Cats fandom is fond of this. Acronyms include: the series titles (TNP, TPOT, OOTS) book titles (TDH, FQ, BP, NW, BotC, T4A, SotC, to name a few... This created a slight issue when Code of the Clans came along, because there was already a CotC from Cats of the Clans. There were even forum threads debating on what to call it - the most common form is C2otC.) some characters, places, etc (HF, DF, PoNS) related websites (Ww, OF) |
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The GameFAQs Naruto boards has JnJ, PnJ, ET, SST, CT, FRS, 0TK, 3TK, 4TK, 8TK, nTK, MS, EMS… | |
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Also used to mock the ever-expanding acronym, for example LBTQWERTYWTFBBQIDDQDMOUSE. | |
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In Rifts every attribute and important rules concept seems to have an abbreviation or acronym in the rules: I.Q., M.A., M.E., P.E., P.S., P.P., P.B., Spd., H.P., A.R., S.D.C., M.D.C., M.D, P.P.E., I.S.P., O.C.C., R.C.C., H.F., and W.P. are examples from the main rulebook. note Intelligence Quotient, Mental Affinity, Mental Endurance, Physical Endurance, Physical Strength, Physical Prowess, Physical Beauty, Speed, Hit Points, Armor Rating, Structural Damage Capacity, Mega Damage Capacity, Mega Damage, Potential Psychic Energy, Internal Strength Points, Occupational Character Class, Racial Character Class, Horror Factor, Weapon Proficiency, respectively. | |
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Inquisitor Vail thinks Imperial Guard lingo has so many acronyms and abbreviations (FNG: Frakking New Guys, el-tee: Lieutenant, LZ: Landing Zone, TLA: Three Letter Acronym...) it should be reclassified as its own language. | |
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Mega Man Battle Network: In-Universe, actually. Mostly to preserve memory space, but also has a nice futuristic look. Its spin-off series, Starforce, does this on the Nintendo DS, simply for the latter reason. It also forces this on the player, due to little paragraph space for the parts you have to write yourself, such as naming your "Best Combos". | |
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The dialogue in The Sandbaggers uses so many acronyms that the DVDs have an acronym glossary as a bonus feature. | |
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In Renaissance Man, Danny DeVito's character, who is teaching a class at a military base, is first very confused when a serviceman gives him directions like this, eventually asking if he can "buy a vowel". Later in the movie, once he's gotten used to being on the base, the situation is reversed when a civilian asks him for directions and he gives the same acronym-filled one he received earlier. | |
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A comical example occurs in the Strong Bad Email "mile", in which — due to the Cheat's chunky art style — badly-animated Strong Bad has almost no space on his computer screen and starts resorting to initials: | |
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Every Sherlock Holmes story has its own four-letter acronym. Hound of the Baskervilles, for example, is shortened to HOUN. | |
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In DarkMatter2525's animation "If Jesus Returned", after Jesus is Mistaken for Terrorist at the airport, he gets busted by the SWAT, TSA, NSA, NYPD, FBI, CIA, ATF, and finally ASS (Acronym Security Squad). | |
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In How I Met Your Mother, after Robin and Barney break up, Barney announces he's back with: | |
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An episode of Hong Kong Phooey had Sgt. Flint asking for a criminal's M.O. on an A.P.B., and Rosemary said "A.O.K. I'll get right on it P.D.Q.!" | |
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Awkward.'s Tamara's way of talking comprises both this and an overload of Buffy Speak. | |
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Only Fools and Horses: At one point Del Boy insists that "Modern businesspeople only speak in initials!" He initializes everything — examples include the GLC: "General 'Lectric Company" and PMA: "Positive Mental Attitude". He also tries to initialize "Trotter's Independent Trader's" and Rodney's "Diploma In Computerization", the results of which are duly pointed out. | |
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From Good Morning, Vietnam: | |
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Spongebob Squarepants: In the episode "Banned from Bikini Bottom" there's The United Organization of Fish Against Things That are Fun and Delicious or T.U.O.O.F.A.T.T.A.F.A.D. for short. Also, the titular educational reel in "Boat Smarts" is brough to us by C.O.B.B.U.T.K.S.B.S.P.O.T.R.A.O.O.B.A.T.: Citizens Of Bikini Bottom United To Keep SpongeBob SquarePants Off The Road And Out Of Boats All Together. |
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Wikipedia has several lists of acronyms. Be forewarned: A person can easily get lost on a Wiki Walk through these pages. Good starting points include: Their main article on acronyms and initialism Their list of acronyms and initialism Their list of U.S. government and military acronyms Their article on orphan initialism The project's guideline on abbreviation use in articles and essay against overuse of abbreviations in project pages Wikipedians tend to use lots and lots of abbreviations: "MOS" for "Manual of Style", "AGF" for "Assume good faith", "AfD" for "Articles for Deletion". Parodied in the essay "WTF? OMG! TMD TLA. ARG! While we're at it, the Wikipedia article for Alphabet Soup, a metaphor for exactly this trope. |
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Super Smash Bros.: (SSB) guides will have all kinds of acronyms, sometimes making the simplest things hard to read; for instance, DI, or Directional Influence; your ability to move left or right a little bit in midair, etc. | |
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