Acronymical

[Fabiyj]

Meiner Meinung nach lässt sich über die Effizienz von Abkürzungen streiten, aber deine neuen deutschen Abkürzungen sind einfach genial!:D

[BamInHisElement]

Your really hilarious but i definantly think you should

a) post longer videos

b) post some that arent about germany lol

i love the way you say

"what the devil"

=]

[stakkdo]

i think the most common ones are

hdl -> hab dich lieb

lg -> liebe grüße

hdl can be expanded in many different ways, such as

hdgdl -> hab dich ganz doll lieb

hdgggggggdl

hdsmhdl -> hab dich super mega hyper doll lieb etc.

[bresophil]

kA for keine Ahnung is really common.

[The1stElk]

wenn einer in deutschland abkürzt dann ist es die bundeswehr

lach mir meinen arsch ab ...lmmaa

[bradtwo]

and even in a very horrible american accent at that.

[MarcImmeker]

Aküfi = abkürzungsfimmel

[sak0815]

very inspiring discussion here ^^

i also like HONK = hauptschüler ohne nennenswerte kenntnisse ;)

and in poker rooms we say gw for glückwunsch

i miss rofl in your video

oh,i just realized,i know tons of them,and i'm using them over and over again...there is a program called skype in which you can speak to other people and a lot of the people i know there are even speaking like this :D (lol,thx,wb,wtf) really weird ^^

[Trebor75317]

lmaa is really very known, and there are things like: ild (ich liebe dich) or ssz (schreib schnell zurück, used in sms).

[staplesInk]

ok an germ. acronym LMAA ! lol

[glowinthedarkness]

Super, mein letztes Kommentar sollte als Antwort für beflashed erscheinen, warum ist es nicht? WZHWDI Was zur Hölle weiß denn ich?

(It doesen't quite work as good in german, at least not for the normale Sprachgebrauch.)

[parvus02]

she´s never been in germany, isn´t it ? i´ve never heard that we use such - how does she call that - acronymical.. i think she is a huge Miss_understood^^

[missverstaendnis101]

I'm sorry, I can't understand you! Maybe there has been some kind of Missverstaendnis.

[beflashed]

theres a song by "die fantastischen vier". "mfg" is the name. after that u will know a lot more german acronyms.

[missverstaendnis101]

Thanks. I'll have a listen. I love those guys.

[glowinthedarkness]

I was just going to suggest that too.

[random0815]

interesting observation, there is a funny one: vokuhila (=mullet: vorne kurz hinten lang ^^),

somehow german doesn't invite as much to toy with language as english, maybe because its too complicated and semantically dense, its quite hard to bloviate in german too, we also have few neolisms, to a certain extent its certainly also due to anglosaxon influence as most people simply use english terms, only in the military we basically acronymize everything!

[missverstaendnis101]

The military loves to make acronyms! If you search wikipedia for military acronyms, there is a HUGE list. Some of them are pretty funny.

[Tatti77]

Oh, the Ossis used lots of acronyms before there was the interweb.

VEB, Stasi, LPG, NSW, VoPo, FDJ, usw, etc, pp.

[realproducer07]

was is ein acronyms?

[missverstaendnis101]

An acronym is when you shorten a phrase by just using the first letters of each word (see discussion below).

[PemuMaxx]

I've never heard these german acronyms. I only know: abFfL Aller beste/r Freund/in für's Leben or: hdsmh(...)dl hab dich super mega hyper (...) doll lieb or: ida ich dich auch ... and some more

[itekisan]

Hm dunno, when I chat w/ German folks who don't speak much English at all, there are almost as many acronyms as in English chats, eg consider:

"bd" = bis dann, "gn" = gute Nacht, "kp" = kein Problem ... well, ok there are not SO many. But still enough. ;) And many English acronyms are of course also used in German chats. Whereas in Italian chats I hardly see English ones at all. And the most stupid "acronym" is the Italian "nn" for "non". ;)

[missverstaendnis101]

I admit, KP I have seen quite a lot. "NN"! What's the point? :D

[itekisan]

> "NN"! What's the point? :D

That's my point! ;)

In general, Italians heavily use three "shortcuts" in chats (and even letters): nn = non, k = ch (before the letters e and i, makes Italian more phonetic), and x = per. The x originally comes from mathematics, but the homonym is used everywhere as "for" etc. And an example for the K: in chat "ce" = "c'è" = "there is", and "ke" = "che" = "what". (Everyone confused now? *g* )

[itekisan]

Oh btw: KP may also mean "kein' Plan" meaning "Ich hab keinen Plan." which in turns means in standard German "Ich habe keine Ahnung." which of course means "I don't know." This stimes leads to confusion in German chats.

[missverstaendnis101]

Oh man. What a Missverständnis!

[misscupcake1]

thanks for watching my videos :)

i had to check you out, to hear your accent cos you mentioned youre from NZ.

youre gorgeous in this video :)

xox

[missverstaendnis101]

Aw shucks.

[LiberatedSpirit]

Hey stop making such cool videos!! lol

I could be wrong but aren't things like 'WTF'= Abbreviations..

Where Acronyms are abbreviations that spell words. Like = 'C.H.I.P.S' & 'S.W.A.N'??

It doesn't really matter to be honest, great videos.

take care ;)

[missverstaendnis101]

My friend the Wik tells me: "Acronyms, initialisms, and alphabetisms are abbreviations that are formed using the initial components in a phrase or name. These components may be individual letters (as in CEO), or syllables or parts of words (as in Benelux)."

I think an acronym is any abbreviation made up of the initial letters of the component words, but often they are constructed so as to form real words (like C.H.I.P. & S.W.A.N.) to make them more catchy and marketable.

Hope this helps :)

[LiberatedSpirit]

k thanks, take care ;)

[rewboss]

Technically:

An initialism is when the initial letters of words in a phrase are used;

An alphabetism is an initialism spoken as separate letters (e.g. "USA");

An acronym is an initialism which can be pronounced as a word (e.g. "NATO").

In practice, the difference hardly matters, so many people use "acronym" for aphabetisms as well. And there are some abbreviations which are hybrids (e.g. "MPEG", pronounced "em-peg"), so the boundaries are quite blurred anyhow.

[LeBigPotato]

MBV - mach bessere videos.

[redsimonDE]

Coomon acronym: FDH (friß die Hälfte; diet type).

[iseron]

FKK - FKK - FKK :please don't forget to explain with a real example of yourself like the Schwarzfahrer.

[missverstaendnis101]

This is a family show.

[iseron]

It was a joke..... But it is interesting because I still remember when I didn´t knew what was FKK. I saw that in the time schedule of the swimming pool after the 21:00 but I din´t pay much attention. Suddenly after 21:00 the life guard told me that I should remove my swimming shorts.. of course I left the place. I would say I am conservative.. danke für die antwort! (I speak spanish by the way. Sorry for any english grammar error..)

[koolblu89]

MOF- mensch ohne fruende

[AericWinter]

MORK - Mensch ohne Rechtschreibkenntnisse

[missverstaendnis101]

MOGZURZS - Mench ohne genug Zeit, um recht zu schreiben. ;)

[TheEvilJuergen]

I am astounded that this video made it out without any "bad" words ... I could never do such thing. Bravo!

EVIL J

[tavin15]

but master you needn't to be abled to do everything,expessaly if its not evil releated

[tejayce]

if looked at from the perspective of "internet acronyms", like you did. one of the most used ones is probably "DAU". commonly used to describe the most stupid computer-user you can expect to encounter ;)

[rewboss]

adg9 = ach du grüne Neune

ldb = lese die Bedienungsanleitung

ldvb = lese die verdammte Bedienungsanleitung

ilmw = ich lach mich weg

ilmt = ich lach mich tot

lmaa = leck mich am A... ähm, ich meine, am Ärmel...

[elgaron]

One actually used online bei germans is "hdf" (halt die fresse, which is the equivalent of "stfu"...just without the f-word.

There is also "hdl" (hab dich lieb / love u), which is especially used by girls. It's also variable, for example you could say

"hdgsmdl" (hab dich ganz super mega doll lieb / i love you so very [very, very...] much)

And there are others...that just refuse to come into my mind right no.

[AericWinter]

Oh yeah, it totally rules when you read "Federmäppchen" of German girls in school saying "Julia HDGGGDLMAAADGWW!" Still cracks me up.

[elgaron]

Thanks for commenting on my comment Aeric, I like your channel, keep it going :>

Still I just remembered another one, which is not really an acronym, but sort of:

"stino" (stinknormal / boringly normal),

a term used by fringe-groups to describe "ordninary" people.

Miss V. kills my english...did I really write "bei germans"?

[AericWinter]

You can always sell it as kewl denglisch slang, right? (c;

Stino, yes. I think those sort of abbreviations are typically German. Just like Vokuhila.

And thx, btw.

[tavin15]

vokuhila ist mir kein begriff...

ist es wodka mit tekila?

[Solvejg]

nein, eine beliebte frisur der 80er ("vorne-kurz-hinten-lang"), gerne getragen auch in kombination mit oberlippenbart (= vokuhila-mioliba)

[missverstaendnis101]

Es lebe Deutschlisch! How much easier is it to say 'bei Germans' than 'something which Germans say'.

Much easier, I say.

[tavin15]

ka= keine ahnung

eigene kreationen:

wzh= was zum henker?

schA = schieb ab!

ubiub= unser bier ist unser brot

bid= besser ist das

[AericWinter]

Heh, WZH verwende ich gelegentlich auch.

Außerdem noch gmbh = geh mal Bier holen!

[tavin15]

gmbh ist aber auch gemeinschaft mit beschränkter haftung, das könnte zu verwirrungen führen

[AericWinter]

Das ist ein absichtliches Wortspiel, tavin.

Genau wie man unter DAU nicht mehr unbedingt das ursprüngliche "Digital-Analog-Umwandler" versteht. Zumindest nicht mehr in unseren Netizen-Breitengraden.

[tavin15]

O.O Wirklich es war Absicht!?

so lernt man immer wieder was der andere DAU war mir garkein Begriff,

Danke Aeric!

[tavin15]

z.B. = zum Beispiel

S. = Seite

f= folgende

s.o. = siehe oben

(meistens Seite z.b. S.125f = S. 125 und S.126)

ff =folgenden (S.123ff =S.123+S.124+S.125)

ff = die nächsten drei folgenden (s.o.)

usw. = und so weiter

[revilomat]

Well, we have a lot of acronyms in Germany... check out the song MFG by Die Fantastischen Vier, for a few examples ;-) . For all the missing acronyms we are used to use the english acronyms. Isn't that even more efficient, than to come up with new ones ;-P ?

But WzT...

mMn (already exists, look it up ;-) ) war das mal wieder ein stV (super tolles Video)! mws! (mach weiter so!)

Tbs ;-)

- revilomat