When I see "YA"...
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"Young adult" all the way
It might have been the third option, but it's only 11:41 where I am, so it's not quite late enough for me to say it's too late to make a poll
"Young adult" all the way
It might have been the third option, but it's only 11:41 where I am, so it's not quite late enough for me to say it's too late to make a poll
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I always immediately think Young Adult, but some people just don't seem to register the abbreviation at all for some reason. I was chatting about YA to one of my co-workers, and I called it 'YA', rather than 'teenage books' or 'young adult', and she immediately went What? She'd seriously never heard it called that. How can you work at a bookshop selling YA for years and not notice?
Then again, maybe I shouldn't be using it in conversation. Maybe it makes me sound too much like I'm using acronyms for the sake of using acronyms.
Oh, the chronic overthinking I do about everything I say...
Then again, maybe I shouldn't be using it in conversation. Maybe it makes me sound too much like I'm using acronyms for the sake of using acronyms.
Oh, the chronic overthinking I do about everything I say...
I actually hadn't heard the term until I started looking at writing one. All of the bookstores here just call them "Teen".
Why ay, as in
You can stand under my umbrella ella ella ella
why ay ay
with the voice synthesizer and everything.
You can stand under my umbrella ella ella ella
why ay ay
with the voice synthesizer and everything.
I think "why ay" too.
I also think "ess eff" when I see SF.
BUT I think "rolf" like a word like it rhymes with "rudolph" and "lol" is loehl like a word. And also "Wtf" is sort of like "wht th fk" but no vowels.
Insight into Sophie's mind, you have it.
I also think "ess eff" when I see SF.
BUT I think "rolf" like a word like it rhymes with "rudolph" and "lol" is loehl like a word. And also "Wtf" is sort of like "wht th fk" but no vowels.
Insight into Sophie's mind, you have it.
see, I think YA is the only acronym I actually think the letters for. Why ay. for lol, I just do that loehl thing, and for wtf I think "what the fuck." I think I either make words out of the acronym or just automatically jump to what it stands for. EXCEPT FOR YA.
Actually for "MG" I do the same thing.
And also LC. Maybe it's a two-letter thing? Two letters isn't really enough to make a word, especially when they're both consonants, so they're sort of predisposed to be read as letters instead of a word.
see?
And also LC. Maybe it's a two-letter thing? Two letters isn't really enough to make a word, especially when they're both consonants, so they're sort of predisposed to be read as letters instead of a word.
see?
MG and LC too! wow.
and BC.
and SG
but never alM or IiAB...
HMMMM I think you're onto something with this two letter thing.
and BC.
and SG
but never alM or IiAB...
HMMMM I think you're onto something with this two letter thing.
See, WAMG is a word.
TC is not.
TCATELM is just ridiculous.
(It is TC btw.)
I see "btw" as "bee tee wah."
...what?
TC is not.
TCATELM is just ridiculous.
(It is TC btw.)
I see "btw" as "bee tee wah."
...what?
YA perceived as short for "Yeah!"
...especially when books by Paulson or Jean George are on a shelf in front of me
...especially when books by Paulson or Jean George are on a shelf in front of me
no, WAMG is a word. like wang but with an m.
btw is by the way. or bee tee double you. it varies.
btw is by the way. or bee tee double you. it varies.
In my brain, abbreviations and acronyms turn into words of their own. Like why-ay. Or OMG and WTF. I even pronounce lbs (as in pounds) as libs in my head. I don't translate. Sounds a little bit idiotic when I forget and say it out loud.
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Funny poll.
I think "why ay" in my head when I see YA, but oddly, when I see MG, I think middle grade. Go figure.
I think "why ay" in my head when I see YA, but oddly, when I see MG, I think middle grade. Go figure.
Both, simultaneously. I think 'why-ay' but immediately recognise it as meaning 'young adult' so Isort of think that, too.
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