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Hate to be annoying, but I'm a native English speaker and I just skipped over "AFAIUI" because it was too much work to guess what it meant. "As far as I unders
by how_to_bake 8y ago
Hate to be annoying, but I'm a native English speaker and I just skipped over "AFAIUI" because it was too much work to guess what it meant.
"As far as I understand it" ? RIP if you're not a native speaker.
- twtw 8y agoRIP if you are a native speaker too.
- Asooka 8y agoIRC-speak is its own language :)
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- plussed_reader 8y agoA predecessor of pager code.
- idoescompooters 8y agoHaha yeah I actually chucked at that one. Amazes me how many acronyms people come up with for that simple kind of statement.
- mr_overalls 8y agoI think it actually points to a hole in English - the lack of a short word that expresses a bit of uncertainty regarding one's own statement. Anyone want to coin a word (or point one out that we're all apparently unfamiliar with)?
- whatswrongwitu 8y agoCovfefe
- erikpukinskis 8y agoYes sir, dispatching the operative now.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- jacquesm 8y agoAFAIUI seems to solve the problem nicely. Not a native speaker and yet I understood it right away.
- interfixus 8y agoTTBOMK, TANST.
- laretluval 8y agoMaybe
- betterunix2 8y agoI think it is a relatively common abbreviation used in informal writing online, similar to "AFAIK" or "AFAICT" (maybe those are not so common?) but admittedly less common than "QED" or "etc." Yes, it means "as far as I understand it."
- waterphone 8y ago"AFAIUI" is nowhere even close to as common as your other examples. I have never encountered it before, and Google Trends doesn't even register it in a comparison between the others. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=afiak,afaict,afaiui https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=a...
- rtkwe 8y agoTrends isn't the best for this as it's search results not occurrences so really all this will show is the number of people confused by the term for weird contractions like this. "AFAIUI" could theoretically just be completely understood by the community using it.
- waterphone 8y agoNumber of search results: AFAIK: 8,600,000 AFAICT: 346,000 AFAIUI: 14,600
- rtkwe 8y agoShould have made it more clear that I meant that in the general case not in this particular. I've never seen AFAIUI.
- waterphone 8y agoOh, I understood what you meant, I was just providing an additional data point for this particular conversation in response to what you were saying re: search queries vs. results.
- overcast 8y agoAgreed, so sick of these internet acronyms. This isn't text messaging, it's an intelligent discussion forum. Type out what you're saying.