Comments on: How Do You Pronounce Internet Acronyms?

By: chimera245

chimera245 — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:51:55 +0000

I think I do pronounce the couple of most commons ones:

lol -> loll
rofl -> roffle

but not LMAO. Any ideas for some of the others like IMHO, IIRC, AFK, AFAIK, TBH, BBS, BBL, and FFS WTF.

By: duckie

duckie — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:41:44 +0000

I suppose the most important thing to consider is why in the hell you’d want to be using the bloody things in the first place. Allow me an ironic ‘lol. Lol.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:11:06 +0000

Actually, technically if something is an ‘acronym’ it is said as a word, i.e. ‘roffle’ etc. If you pronounce it L-O-L, it’s not an acronym, just an initialism.
NASA - acronyn
FBI - initialism
Look it up!

By: Jim Whimpey

Jim Whimpey — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:35:13 +0000

I say, l-o-l, l-m-a-o, etc. I say the letters. It always bothered me when people said “lol” like “loll”. It’s an acronym, not a word.

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:21:11 +0000

@Edrei: I suppose–that’s how I’ve always pronounced them though.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:19:37 +0000

I don’t pronounce them - however I sound them in my head like this:

lol -> loh-lh
lmao -> lah-ma-oh
roflmao -> roffle lah-ma-oh

By: Edrei

Edrei — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:18:30 +0000

Actually…would you believe I read it out as the actual sentence it’s acronymed for? It’s just bad grammar to read it off like that.

By: Lasse Havelund

Lasse Havelund — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 10:12:49 +0000

Sorta the same as me then :)

By: labrynth

labrynth — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 09:17:02 +0000

for ROFLMAO - Rof le mau :D