Author Topic: 'JFC', 'FOH', etc (Read 2042 times)

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

archnemesis · « **Reply #1 on:** January 01, 2018, 12:40:16 PM »

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=JFC

Atramental · « **Reply #2 on:** January 01, 2018, 12:42:59 PM »

jfc... foh.

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Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #3 on:** January 01, 2018, 12:54:19 PM »

2018 already delivers

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #4 on:** January 01, 2018, 01:01:54 PM »

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #5 on:** January 01, 2018, 01:15:17 PM »

jfc is the prequel to kfc ... kfc is post-Christian

Reb · « **Reply #6 on:** January 01, 2018, 01:51:58 PM »

delete your account

toku · « **Reply #7 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:16:31 PM »

less of this come on now dufus 2018 just started

CatsCatsCats · « **Reply #8 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:39:56 PM »

I definitely read abbreviations like that as their full counter parts in my mind, try that

team filler · « **Reply #9 on:** January 01, 2018, 02:56:21 PM »

jack n coke

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #10 on:** January 01, 2018, 03:09:58 PM »

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #11 on:** January 01, 2018, 03:11:42 PM »

SMH... SMD

jorma · « **Reply #12 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

agrajag · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:12:35 PM »

Purrp Skirrp · « **Reply #14 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:30:45 PM »

FHUTA

Himu · « **Reply #15 on:** January 01, 2018, 08:35:39 PM »

Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on January 01, 2018, 08:30:45 PM

FHUTA

TY

Yeti · « **Reply #16 on:** January 01, 2018, 10:36:11 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #17 on:** January 01, 2018, 11:43:34 PM »

Quote from: Purrp Skirrp on January 01, 2018, 08:30:45 PM

FHUTA

GOAT

Your Stalker · « **Reply #18 on:** January 02, 2018, 12:30:03 AM »

Trent Dole · « **Reply #19 on:** January 02, 2018, 01:13:40 AM »

I had to search foh. My only guess was Front of House.

Atramental · « **Reply #20 on:** January 02, 2018, 01:34:13 AM »

diaf

nys

HardcoreRetro · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2018, 08:14:10 AM »

Boh foi toch

Yeti · « **Reply #22 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

demi · « **Reply #23 on:** January 02, 2018, 09:20:53 AM »

Raist · « **Reply #24 on:** January 02, 2018, 09:41:07 AM »

Don't particularly care about acronyms.

What

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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Author Topic: 'JFC', 'FOH', etc (Read 2042 times)

Ruzbeh