# Acronyms we really need on the SDMB **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 7, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729 "2015-12-07T19:11:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/21 "2015-12-09T01:02:32Z")
> [@Diceman](#): > > dfth 😉 > [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > iwtbhalf Hmmm… this is really “meta” or something. Those were both funny and I appreciate the humor but those posts illustrate my conundrum perfectly. I have no idea what you guys posted; what you meant to say! Maybe you’re just pulling my leg and those acronyms meant nothing. Fair enough, but if they actually stood for something, I’m curious to know what it is! ⭕(🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/22 "2015-12-09T01:10:48Z")
> [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > DFTH (Don’t fight the hypothetical) > [@Diceman](#): > > dfth 😉 > [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > Hmmm… this is really “meta” or something. Those were both funny and I appreciate the humor but those posts illustrate my conundrum perfectly. I have no idea what you guys posted; what you meant to say! > > Maybe you’re just pulling my leg and those acronyms meant nothing. Fair enough, but if they actually stood for something, I’m curious to know what it is! ⭕(🙂 \*\*Diceman \*\*was using the proposed new acronym posted by \*\*Mr. Kobayashi \*\*just a little bit above your earlier post to criticize your post in a funny way. But I have no clue what his reply meant: > [@Mr.Kobayashi](#): > > iwtbhalf Maybe “I was thinking …” but after that I got nuthin’. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/23 "2015-12-09T01:19:09Z")
As posted by **Mangetout** above; IWTBHALF (I wish this board had a ‘Like’ function) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/24 "2015-12-09T01:32:43Z")
Now I feel extra stupid :smack::smack: I even quoted **Mangetout** ’s post and added my contrary sentiment: > [@LSLGuy](#): > > IADGTTBDHASLF: It’s a damn good thing the board doesn’t have a stupid ‘like’ function. 🙂 If there was any new jokeronym I shoulda recognized, it was that one. I blame the fact you wrote in lower case; yeah, that’s it. “iwbthalf” looks waay different than IWBTHALF. Sure it does … :smack::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/25 "2015-12-09T01:36:42Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Now I feel extra stupid :smack::smack: > > I even quoted **Mangetout** ’s post and added my contrary sentiment:If there was any new jokeronym I shoulda recognized, it was that one. I blame the fact you wrote in lower case; yeah, that’s it. “iwbthalf” looks waay different than IWBTHALF. > > Sure it does … :smack::smack: One of the boards quirks is that it’ll turn to lower case any post/title that you write in ALLCAPS, which is probably why **Diceman** ’s is lower case too. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/26 "2015-12-09T01:50:23Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > JGIA – Just Google It Already. Sometimes if you copy and paste the thread title or the _entire_ OP to a Google search box, the answer will be right there. Sometimes on the first page. Sometimes in the _very first_ search result. And the alternative, GIYF (Google Is Your Friend). ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/27 "2015-12-09T02:42:28Z")
It’s fun and all to make up wacky acronyms in this thread, but doesn’t anybody other than me have a problem understanding “non-ordinary” acronyms in SDMB posts? I guess for some it can be entertaining to try to figure out what some odd acronym means but for me it gets really old looking them up on Google just to find that too often, it’s apparently not in common internet usage i.e-- a total mystery. Of course, I could just be far more clueless than I thought. :eek: I’m sorry–I wish I had some examples of that I could cite but I don’t. Actually, I’ve been intending to start a thread about this but haven’t gotten around to it. If I had ever got off my butt and done that, there would have been at least one example in it! (the one that was currently irking me). :mad:;)🙂 ETA: I hope I’m not becoming so un-hip and out of it that I’m going to need to chase a whole lot more people (many of them older than me!) off of my DAMN LAWN!!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/28 "2015-12-09T02:47:19Z")
(Too late to add on edit) Maybe we should have a Sticky of commonly used acronyms on the SDMB. If the acronym you intend to use isn’t on the list then don’t use it! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/29 "2015-12-09T02:50:38Z")
[Beginner’s Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6241129#post6241129) ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/30 "2015-12-09T03:23:54Z")
I thought of a new one, that we could definitely use around here: DTMB: Don’t Taze Me, Bro (or Babe). A response for when someone has gotten into a snit over an innocuous comment. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/31 "2015-12-09T05:19:35Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > [Beginner’s Guide to Glossary of Terms on Straight Dope Message Boards](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=6241129#post6241129) :smack: I feel real dumb-like. Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/32 "2015-12-09T09:08:40Z")
IDKWPLSID: I don’t understand why people like stuff I don’t. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/33 "2015-12-09T15:04:12Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > IDKWPLSID: I don’t understand why people like stuff I don’t. Y. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/34 "2015-12-09T15:31:06Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > It’s fun and all to make up wacky acronyms in this thread, but doesn’t anybody other than me have a problem understanding “non-ordinary” acronyms in SDMB posts? > … > I’m sorry–I wish I had some examples of that I could cite but I don’t. … None of the acronyms in **Dewey Finn** ’s link are SDMB-specific; AFAIK they’re all pretty universal across the 'net. To be sure the non-acronyms are pretty SDMB specific, such as “Hi Opal”. But that’s not what you’re concerned about. If you could come up with any example of a post with acronyms you don’t understand that would really help us comprehend the problem only you seem to be having. We’d like to help; really we would. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729/35 "2015-12-09T20:06:09Z")
OXKCDR: Obligatory XKCD reference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acronyms-we-really-need-on-the-sdmb/739729.md?page=1)