# What does YMMV mean?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [January 30, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562 "2003-01-30T06:15:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@torben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torben)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562/1 "2003-01-30T06:15:45Z")
I hate to admit this, but I’m not up on all the cyber lingo. What does YMMV mean? I’ve seen this used in posts and have not figured out what it stands for.
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### Author:  [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562/2 "2003-01-30T06:20:06Z")
Literally, “your mileage may vary.” Figuratively, “you may get less (or more) out of this than I.” Very loosely, “in my humble opinion.” IMHO, we already have a perfectly good acronym for this third usage.
Someone will be along shortly to say I’ve got it all wrong.
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### Author:  [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562/3 "2003-01-30T07:09:35Z")
IHA and IANAL but IMNSHO and AFACT, YMMV, means AOTA and AGKWE.
ANFSCD [translation](http://www.lingo2word.com/lists/acronym_listA.html)
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### Author:  [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562/4 "2003-01-30T13:02:56Z")
Welcome to the SDMB **torben**.
For All Features Great And Small / All Things Bright And Beautiful, check out **Arnold Winkelried** ’s threads in ATMB: [FAQ - technical issues](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=103503) and [FAQ - Guidelines for posting at the SDMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=106617).
**For fairly comprehensive lists of abbreviations…**
…check out this SDMB thread.
[A SDMB thread re: acronyms (abbreviations?)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2528)
…and a couple of good outside references.
[Netlingo: Acronyms & Shorthand](http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm)
[Acronym Finder](http://www.acronymfinder.com/).
…and here are some other SDMB threads you might want to look at (if you have nothing else to do).
[Abbreviations and stuff](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27417)
[Phrase abbreviations in threads (Newbie alert!)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=28369)
[Attn Newcomers - Abbreviations List](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32636)
[Message Board abbreviations](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=57452)
[abbreviations](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=80573)
[YMMV and other SDMB abbreviations](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=115129)
Lastly, one should be intimate with **Gaudere’s Law**.
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> Any post that attempts to correct another poster’s mistake in grammar, spelling or punctuation will itself contain a mistake in grammar, spelling or punctuation.
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### Author:  [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562/5 "2003-01-30T13:04:53Z")
Oops. Sorry **torben**. I only looked at your post count, not your registration date. You’ve been around here awhile, so my welcoming statement doesn’t apply very well.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-does-ymmv-mean/151562/6 "2003-01-30T15:51:11Z")
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> \*Originally posted by TWDuke \*
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> Someone will be along shortly to say I’ve got it all wrong. \*\*
Not gonna happen.
:smack: