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Title: 'JFC', 'FOH', etc
Post by: Ruzbeh on January 01, 2018, 12:19:36 PM: why do people do this

it took me the longest time to realize JFC means jesus fucking christ

why would you shorten that to an acronym

i mean we use WTF to denote surprise, it's okay to have that fuck as an F

but when you say JFC, the f bomb in there doesn't pack a punch just as a single letter so why would you do that?

i honestly think it's connected to smartphones, people are too lazy to spell things out with a shitty touchscreen keyboard

when you express outrage, don't shorten that shit

jesus FUCKING christ!

there that sounds good

not jay eff see... fuck outta here with that
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Post by: archnemesis on January 01, 2018, 12:40:16 PM: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JFC
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Post by: Atramental on January 01, 2018, 12:42:59 PM: jfc... foh.

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Title: Re: 'JFC', 'FOH', etc
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on January 01, 2018, 12:54:19 PM: 2018 already delivers
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Post by: Great Rumbler on January 01, 2018, 01:01:54 PM: ok
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Post by: recursivelyenumerable on January 01, 2018, 01:15:17 PM: jfc is the prequel to kfc ... kfc is post-Christian
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Post by: Reb on January 01, 2018, 01:51:58 PM: delete your account
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Post by: toku on January 01, 2018, 02:16:31 PM: less of this come on now dufus 2018 just started
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Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 01, 2018, 02:39:56 PM: I definitely read abbreviations like that as their full counter parts in my mind, try that
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Post by: team filler on January 01, 2018, 02:56:21 PM: jack n coke
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 01, 2018, 03:09:58 PM: CUN
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Post by: seagrams hotsauce on January 01, 2018, 03:11:42 PM: SMH... SMD
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Post by: jorma on January 01, 2018, 08:03:46 PM: Quote from: seagrams hotsauce on January 01, 2018, 03:11:42 PM
SMH... SMD

I would probably not tell people that i had something in common with Ron Jeremy, but thanks for sharing i guess :doge
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Post by: agrajag on January 01, 2018, 08:12:35 PM: wyd
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Post by: Purrp Skirrp on January 01, 2018, 08:30:45 PM: FHUTA
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Post by: Himu on January 01, 2018, 08:35:39 PM: Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on January 01, 2018, 08:30:45 PM
FHUTA

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Post by: Yeti on January 01, 2018, 10:36:11 PM: SMH
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Post by: Tasty on January 01, 2018, 11:43:34 PM: Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on January 01, 2018, 08:30:45 PM
FHUTA

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Post by: Your Stalker on January 02, 2018, 12:30:03 AM: kys
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Post by: Trent Dole on January 02, 2018, 01:13:40 AM: I had to search foh. My only guess was Front of House. :-[
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Post by: Atramental on January 02, 2018, 01:34:13 AM: diaf

nys

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Post by: HardcoreRetro on January 02, 2018, 08:14:10 AM: Boh foi toch
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Post by: Yeti on January 02, 2018, 08:29:39 AM: Quote from: Trent Dole on January 02, 2018, 01:13:40 AM
I had to search foh. My only guess was Front of House. :-[

That's how I know it too
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Post by: demi on January 02, 2018, 09:20:53 AM: wym
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Post by: Raist on January 02, 2018, 09:41:07 AM: Don't particularly care about acronyms.

What :trigger :trigger :trigger me though is the emergence of a broader "text speak".

Don't know about other countries but in France in the early cell phone days, people starting spelling like shit, basically in a phonetic way, the argument being that character limits were super restrictive so people used that to keep the meaning/sound while going for shorter texts.

So for instance, "quoi" (meaning "what") became "koi". And so on.

Character limits haven't been a thing on most platforms for ages, but this continues to this day, and an alarming proportion of kids in their teens/early twenties these days can't fucking spell or use proper grammar. It's insane.

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