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WTF? 10 acronyms that confuse Americans the most
A few years ago, a family member posted on Facebook that he had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. My mother replied with LOL. She thought that meant “lots of love,” not “laughing out loud.” She was so embarrassed.
OMG, here comes another text or post filled with abbreviations you have to pretend to know. You can try to LOL your way out of the convo.
Instead of saying WTF, check out this cheat sheet of the 10 most confusing acronyms — and some science behind why we use them. You’ll definitely want to save this one for L8R.
U R A1, BFF? ROFL, JK, SRSLY, B MY BFF!
Language learning platform Preply looked at 49 of the most commonly used abbreviations and discovered which ones Americans searched the most. Have any of these stumped you, too?
- SMH: Shaking my head
- POV: Point of view
- TBH: To be honest
- ASL: Age, sex, location (or “as hell” with the younger crowd)
- BBL: Brazilian butt lift or be back later
- HMU: Hit me up
- NSFW: Not safe for work
- LMAO: Laughing my @ss off
- OFC: Of course
- TTYL: Talk to you later
SMH racked up more than 100,000 monthly searches over the last two years. POV confused 70,000 fine folks a month.
Btw, here’s a breakdown of that heading above:
- U R: You are
- A1: Top quality or excellent
- BFF: Best friends forever
- ROFL: Rolling on the floor laughing
- JK: Just kidding
- SRSLY: Seriously
- B MY BFF: Be my best friend forever
Sure, abbreviations help us communicate much faster. They’ve also helped create new words and phrases, like FOMO (fear of missing out) and YOLO (you only live once).
Is it making us dumber?
Some say acronyms, abbreviations and even emojis have led to a decline in spelling and grammar skills. Eh, if you want to blame anything for that, it’s autocorrect.
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Let’s look at what might be taking a close look at you or someone you know who’s working remotely.
Workplace of the future: 4 ways offices will change post COVID-19
As we roll into summer, good news is starting to emerge from the fog of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many states are on the verge of reopening their economies, which means business as usual is about to resume.
Or is it? The pandemic proved that a highly contagious virus is all it takes to devastate peoples’ health and livelihoods. To prevent this from happening again, some of the measures society has taken will likely remain. At least for the time being. Tap or click here to see the proven methods to protect yourself from the coronavirus.
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The coronavirus epidemic has businesses across the company rethinking their Q2 strategies. Not only is the new disease dangerous, it’s highly transmissible. This means any workplace can easily become a petri dish given enough time.
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