FOA (or "figuring out acronyms")
or at least that's my memory from introductory ethics, so it's used to describe topics relating to MGoBlog as opposed to topics about sports or the University or whatever.
Meta is a Greek preposition meaning "above", "beyond", "along with" and has come to be used in internet parlance to mean a discussion about the "situation" (German sitz im leben) within which a discussion is taking place. Instead of simply discussing football, or recruiting or some such, a person starts to get reflective on the nature of football blogs or about blogging itself or about the nature of online interactions. Meta discussions are a discussion of the things "beyond" or "along with" the discussion we are actually having. Generally they are to be avoided like the plague. People here just want to talk football and have little interest in what all of their football talk means or how it is situated within our social historical landscape.
Meta-cognition = thinking about thinking
Meta-humor = jokes about jokes
Meta on the board/blog = post in which the board/blog is the subject
this thread, since it's about the acronyms here on the board, should probably have META in the title, so it would read: "META: FOA (or Figuring out acronyms)". To the poster who asked - that's how you would use it in a thread creation.
I hate to be a stickler, but the OP is not a meta discussion. A meta discussion would have entered into a dailectic about the use of acronyms, their value and purpose. Why do we use them? Do they enhance communication? Are they meant to create the impression that there is an inner circle of people who understand all the acronyms and the rest are left on the outside looking in? Is having a discussion like this in fact a revolutionary act to break open the hegemony of the long time posters who understand all? Is this the act of a defiant nooB who does not know his place?
Those are meta topics.
I was (and probably the other posters as well) attempting to define the term in the way that it is used here on mgoblog.com, I was not trying to give the textbook answer. Here on the boards, any forum topic with META in the title refers to the blog itself. appreciate the insightful info though! #themichigandifference
it's a prefix.
No. It is a Greek preposition that is sometimes used as a prefix.
Not as frequent as the previously listed ones:
FWIW : For What It's Worth
OTOH : On The Other Hand
EDSBS : Every Day Should Be Saturday, an SEC-centric national blog
UV : Unverified Voracity
NRB : No Reason Boner
HERM : Hyperadvanced Espionage Robot Man, a terminator-like sentient being sent from the future to gather market research and focus group information by Dave Brandon under the ruse of being a neophyte internet user with a Walt Kowalski temperment
Don't we have one around here referring to the National Championship game and how it's fake as well?
MNC for Mythical National Championship is much more widespread than the confines of this board.
In my humble epinion (variant of IMHO (In my humble opinion.)
NSFW - Not suitable for work
NSFH - Not suitable for home, which morphed into NSFMSRK
Snap. I always thought IMHO was "in my *honest* opinion."
I've been truthful but terribly arrogant everytime I've used IMHO!
Bromigo - Your friend with latino decent and douch-E tendencies....IMO
Have seen this used in context and still can't figure it out....?
UTL = Under The Lights = first night game at Michigan stadium. This year's Notre Dame game will also be a night game, and I've seen some folk referring to it as UTL II.
Ummm hello people...YOLO
Y.O.L.O = "I'm a fu**ing ass-bag"
I get the big dunk at the end of the game --> Game = game over. What does "Blouses" mean? (I'm guessing it has something to do with the uniform). Thanks!
I get the big dunk at the end of the game --> Game = game over. What does "Blouses" mean? (I'm guessing it has something to do with the uniform). Thanks!
I get the big dunk at the end of the game --> Game = game over. What does "Blouses" mean? (I'm guessing it has something to do with the uniform). Thanks!
...it meant Down To F^$%.
NTWBAT: now that would be a travesty
LNA = lesser known acronym
BHPR = Brady Hoke poops rainbows
DSIAD = Drew Sharpe is a douche.
BKFI = BK Finest it
HTTVFBMBBMHF = Hail To The Victors Football Men's Basketball Men's Hockey Funded
GB! = GO BLUE!
HTHAHATVAMW
So, of course you need HTTV (Hail to the Victors, magazine).
And one I haen't seen - HALOL, having a lot of laughs, so popularized by Coach Bacardi Alexander it even has it's own urban dictionary webpage:
cannot figure this out, even after googling??
that one was answered earlier
POSBANG = Possums, Otters, Seals, Butterflies, Aarvarks, Needle-nosed dolphins, and Gray squirrels.
It's a list of cute animals Brian won't have to post on the front page, because we won the game.
April 30th, 2013 at 10:47 PM ^