Acronym junction, what's your function?

[Lemur]

Hi all,

I've been editing and notifying people when they use two common internet/real life acronyms: WTF and MILF. Both of them, at least originally, stood for phrases invoking the f-bomb, which we do not permit at the Org.

Honestly, giving out even 0-point infractions for these acronyms is making me feel like a silly old man, so I would like to take the temperature of the Org. Also, if you have arguments for or against the open use of WTF and MILF, please write them here and let me hear you. At the end of the day the Org belongs to the patrons, and I don't want to make a major decision without hearing your points.

Cheers,

Lemur

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Just to get the ball rolling, a certain Gallic mod wrote a thoughtful reply via PM:

It only barely occurred to me that 'milfy' is not a proper word, but an acronym. To me, its meaning has shifted from an acronym 'Mother I'd Like to F', to simply 'Hot woman over the age 35'.

Likewise, last week when I went diving for the wreck of the Titanic together with James Cameron, and strapped on my scuba gear, I did not even realise that I was using a 'Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus'.

The world needed the word 'milf'. So much so, that I think that in a number of years, MILF will have fully gone the way of RADAR and SCUBA. It will be a proper new word, a new word formed out of an acronym, with modern users however mostly unaware of the origin of the word. So no longer capitalised: milfy, radar, scuba.