Is America's obsession with acronyms normal?

@LiLShrimp NOW THAT is funny .... 😂😂😂

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@LiLShrimp

Tell your bf he's way too good at that. 😂

@HannibalAteMeOut

I think you just made that one up. 🤔😂

@calicuz when i first saw 'ROTFL" or whatever it was as a reply to relay supposed laughter, i stlarted to make my own up just to keep people on their toes. I would make them up as i went.. something like, ILSHISMOOMN or OMGIJPABVIMEANTWPIAR .. LOL
The first one- I laughed so hard I shot milk out of my nose
Second one- omg I just popped a blood vessel in my eye and now the white part is all red 🤣😂😅

@SW-User

You had to do it, didn't you? 😂

@calicuz
🤷🏻‍♀️What can I say
I'm....FUBAR

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@Jayciedubb

I'd have to agree, so my next question would be, are acronyms the next language?

@calicuz I don't know if they'll replace the entire language but yes it's coming I think. I mean I was in the Army for 6 years and acronyms are a lot of the military vocabulary and I've been for as long as we've had an army probably. Did you know the Jeep is an acronym? Well it's a melted acronym I guess I'd call it. Started off his GP meaning general purpose, as the jeep was a general purpose vehicle. Just like the Hummer came from Humvee which is actually hmmwv which stands for highly mobile multipurpose wheeled vehicle.

I don't really mind the acronyms taking over for sentences or phrases or whatever but what bothers me is that they may be replacing emotions too. A few years ago I was on an elevator and a handful of teenage boys walked on and they were a friendly get someone colorful conversation and one of them came up with some hyperbole about something and the other one acknowledged the humor in it by saying LOL. Not actually doing it. Just saying it . and the kid who had the hyperbole felt gratified as if the guy really did laugh out loud.

@Jayciedubb

Yes, it is all very interesting.

@SW-User Ikr? WTF?

@SW-User

So that's where it all began. 🤔

@calicuz imho

@exexec

Yeah, there's so many now I can't keep up. 😂

@Pfuzylogic

Ah crap, off to Google I go....... brb. 😂

@RuyLopez

Not gonna lie.......... I had to look that one up on Urban Dictionary. 😂

@SomeMichGuy

This would be true.

@SomeMichGuy Everytime I see those 2 acronyms it bothers me... PotUS always makes me see potatoes or potash, and SCotUS, well... I don't want to say. Let's keep this family friendly. 🧐

@SW-User I get your first one and am sympathetic to your second one!

@Ambroseguy80

This post is turning out to be more work than I expected. Off to Google!!! 😂

@Ambroseguy80 I've been expecting that one to evolve into SNAFUBAR for decades now, to no avail

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout

Awesome!!!

@SW-User

Exactly, I've had to use it for half the comments. 😂

@calicuz That plus the online urban dictionary of slang. As an old person, without those 2, I'd be totally lost. 🤷‍♀️

@SW-User

Same. 🤣

@AthrillatheHunt

You couldn't help yourself, could you? 😂

@Lilymoon lol, stfu....😉

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@Guardian

Not quite an acronym, but I'll allow it. 😂

@SW-User

It seems there's an acronym for everything these days, and America eats it up. 🤷‍♂️😂