Forum/Cycling Acronyms and Abbreviations

[TheDoctor]

It was used by Adrian but it meant "another subtle joke trampled".

I haven't read this whole thread but hopefully I'm not the first to point out that these are not all acronyms but mostly abbreviations. An acronym is where the initials are read as a word, such as RAM, radar, NATO or laser.

I've just edited the thread title to read Forum/Cycling Acronyms and Abbreviations.
You're welcome
(and yes, I know that acronyms are a sub-set of abbreviations...)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

16 pages of abbreviations, we have no hope. Often easier and simpler to write out the phrase you want to use to save a lot of misinterpretation or confusion.

IDKWYJSPE

 

[TheDoctor]

In all fairness, not all 16 pages are abbreviations - some of them are discussion.
Plus, they're searchable, so if you search DAMHIKT you'll get to Don't Ask Me How I Know That. Hopefully...

 

[ilcaccillo]

Thank you so much for the info

 

[FitMum]

WOW! That's a lot! Will need to bookmark this ;-)

 

[rockyroller]

re: goat

in US baseball, goat is a word reserved for a player that makes one resoundingly blatant error or mistake that costs his team and fanbase dearly

some examples

also

 

[Poacher]

IKWIVF - I know what I voted for

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

IKWIVF - I know what I voted for

You had me wondering about that one!

 

[All uphill]

What is

FEF?

I've come across it on cycling subreddits.

 

[RichardB]

What is

FEF?

I've come across it on cycling subreddits.

I'm a member of a couple of car groups, and there is means Front End Friday - members post head-on pictures of their vehicles. Not sure how that would work with a bike, though.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

re: goat

in US baseball, goat is a word reserved for a player that makes one resoundingly blatant error or mistake that costs his team and fanbase dearly

some examples

also

Ah the donkey in the team

 

[TK421]

I never realised it had to from a word, or be a pronounceable abbreviation:

Word or name that is formed by joining the first letters (or the first few letters) of a series of words. For example, DOS is the acronym for Disk Operating System. An acronym is pronounceable, whereas many other abbreviations are not.​

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Am I the only one who's been making this mistake for years?

I haven't got all the way through yet but I have already realised that people are using the term abbreviation to refer to initialisms like TLA and BDC.

 

[TK421]

Just got through 16 pages and found both PEBCAK and SNAFU are missing.
Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard and an oldie but a goodie, Situation Normal, All Fluffed Up*

*family friendly version

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

That was updated long ago to PICNIC: problem in chair, not in computer.

 

[TK421]

That was updated long ago to PICNIC: problem in chair, not in computer.

Sorry, forgot about that.
There should be 'Problem Exists Between Seat And Steering Wheel' but I would say that as WVM who on occasion is a real PART.
Managed to get an acronym and an initialism in the same sentence! LOL!