Ymmv?

Factual Questions
1

I know I am probabley being really thick and that it may well have been asked before but what does YMMV mean?

(by the way I find the amount of abbreviations used on the internet quite worrying - what about us thick people?:smiley: )

2

Your Mileage May Vary - a disclaimer that appeared in vehicle handbooks, but has expanded in meaning to something along the lines of “that’s the way I see it, but you might not agree”

3

YMMV= Your Milage May Vary.

There was even a thread in ATMB(About this message board) way way back which defined all the abbrevations.I will link it if I can find it.

4

Your mileage may vary.

5

This is a pretty helpful site
http://www.acronymfinder.com/

6

Wow, that has a genuinley interesting origin. I had seen that expression anywhere before. For some reason my brain would read it as ‘your much more than welcome’ which gives you an incite into my diseased mind. I am usually quite good at working out the meaning of abbreviations but that one had me stumped, now I realise I wouldn’t have worked it out in a month of sundays.

7

hadn’t seen…hadn’t seen…need coffee…want to go home!

8

You mean it’s not You Make Me Vomit?

:smiley:

9

Two more sources of abbreviations:

From the Straight Dope Acronyms (abbreviations?)

and from the Web Acronyms and Shorthand

10

It’s not so much from vehicle handbooks, as from TV car ads of the 70s. I remember well that the annoucer would say: “It gets 25 miles per gallon highway, 20 city. Your mileage may vary.”

Ed

11

I had a film professor who said this constantly.

Of course, when he was talking about tackling more serious subjects, he called us all “Adult Filmmakers”. This led to much giggling and the making of t-shirts.

12

A Yumvee is a variant of the Humvee military vehicle. It has a pizza oven is the back. :slight_smile: YMMV.

13

Your milk may vanish.

You’re welcome.

14

I read it as that too. Never seemed to fit in with the context of the post though.

15

You mark my vords…

16

good save, dude :stuck_out_tongue:

17

hehheh, I’ve never seen incite and insight mixed up before. Didn’t even really realize they were homynyms (or whatever that term is) until now.

The best and easiest way to find out what any abbreviation is is to use google. Just type in the abbreviation and hit search. Several of the links on the first page will explain it without even having to click the link.