SMH and TIA annoy me so much. 
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I don't like "thanks in advance" even when it's not abbreviated!
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@mrbee: Yeah, it always makes me mad!
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haha I didn't even know what TIA stood for until Mr. Bee's response! Hate SMH though... No one even says that in real life!
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SMH and, ugh, YOLO. I HATE yolo with a passion.
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I don't like "THIS". I mean, I get what it means, but it doesn't make sense!
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What's SMH?
I agree on yolo. I don't know, a lot annoy me and I try not to use them at all!
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@sslm: Here it is!
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I cannot STAND LMAO or ROFL. They just drive me insane.
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@hergreenapples: Ah really? I don't use them, but those are pretty old school terms.
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@mrbee: LOL also bothers me, but the two I listed above to a greater extent. Mostly because no one is ever actually rolling on the floor laughing. They're just so overused.
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Yolo, OMFG, OMG LMFAO
I do use lol and ugh quite a bit though
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@hergreenapples: Ahhh.... are you a literalist?
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I hate YOLO but I'm pretty okay with the rest. I want to start using YODO, because that's true, too.
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@mrbee: Perhaps to a certain extent! I think it bothers me the most when people use it as their default response, even if nothing remotely funny was said. I see it a lot with my (much younger) brother and his friends.
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@hergreenapples: Those make me crazy too...and ROTFLMAO (my stepmom does this all.the.time).
The whole YOLO thing is just weird to me.
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@hergreenapples: Yah I know what you mean. I think language is just evolving way faster than it did in the past!
It used to be that by the time phrases like LOL evolved in their usage, most of the people who only used the old meaning were already dead. Now it happens within a single generation! Very disorienting!
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@hergreenapples: I use LMAO all the time because I really am LMAO when I type it. I know some people write LOL, but they aren't really laughing. They don't even have a smirk on their faces, but I really am laughing.
I'm not a fan of YOLO or abbreviations in general when they're made up because I get a headache trying to decipher what it means!! Quit being lazy people and type the word out. Sheesh!
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I hate IMHO...Don't know why, but I find it really annoying.
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@winniebee: THIS! Just kidding. I don't like it either.
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@sooz: is that in my humble opinion? Bugs me too!
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@winniebee: i hate "THIS" too. Cant people just say, "i agree"?
I dislike FTW and SMH.
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I don't like YOLO.
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@autumnlove: in my honest opinion.
I remember overhearing my older colleagues trying to figure out what IMHO meant in someone's email. They thought it was HMO spelled incorrectly and was medical related. I had to yell out down the hall..."it is in my honest opinion!"
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@caffeinated: Oh I always thought IMHO was in my humble opinion!
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@autumnlove: IMHO (in my humble opinion), IMHO bugs me so much that I'm never ROTF, LMAO or LOL. Even if YOLO, I'd still never use it because it makes me SMH so much I get a freakin' headache. TIA.
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TIA. An old employee of mine used this all the time and it drove me up the wall. I started dreading seeing emails from him just knowing he might have written it. Haha.
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@caffeinated: I did some more research, and IMHO actually stands for: "I Think You're An Idiot And Am About To Try To Humiliate You With My Superior Opinion!"
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@mrbee: oops, maybe it is! Sigh, cant even get the old acronyms right.
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@mrbee: hahaha!!
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Ok, I seriously don't know what most of these even mean!! I must be behind... since I don't know what the rest mean, the one that personally makes me cringe is LOL. I don't know why but I hate it and have only used it maybe 3x in my life, haha!
I could not live without "OMG".
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@mediagirl: Yeah, I had an employee would submit vacation requests for blackout periods and he would always write TIA like it would make a difference!
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I use omg and lol a lot.
I hate FML, FTW (which originally stood for fuck the world from my understanding), KMN (kill me now). I also feel like YOLO is, as put by Jack Black, carpe diem for stupid people. Like did people think you could live twice before yolo?
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not sure if these count, but I hate it when people use 'u' and 'r' instead of you and are. "U R so right!" It's two more letters people!
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@StrawberryBee: It counts!
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@.twist.: oh man, I forgot about FML--I hate that, too.
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Eeek! I'm super GUILTY of using a lot of acronyms on the web and some texts, especially LOL and OMGs (but definitely no for work emails! yikes!)
I don't like SMH (makes me think of a singles' ad) and ETA (because I always think of time). -
With the exception of LOL, I make it a point to spell out all of words while texting/emailing.
My husband's sister uses acronyms in all of her text messages and it takes me FOREVER to try to figure out what the heck she is trying to tell me! Maybe I am just getting old...
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@shopaholic: Oh, it took me FOREVER to figure out what ETA was and I was too embarrassed to ask anyone. I was so stumped. Seriously, years of guessing.
@rahlyrah: I try to make a point of spelling out all words in almost everything I do. With the exception of lol & omg.
I also, more than occasionally, say meow instead of now, and I know it's super immature but I love it and am obsessed with cats and I just cannot control myself.
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i don't like FML, YOLO, SMH.
and lol has morphed from laugh out loud to "i literally have nothing to say"
ETA: i hate it when someone's profile is all acronyms. baby-related stuff is particularly guilty of that....although i wonder if its because we're all typing one-handed?
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