Someone had downvoted every comment correctly saying edited to add. I'm guessing it's because they're thinking about estimated time of arrival, but, in context that makes no fucking sense.
To be fair: its kind of silly to use an abbreviation that already means something else, especially when saying 'edit:' when adding something later has been common practice for decades.
LOL was never lots of love though, that was just boomers misunderstanding the abbreviation.
Except for POS all the ones you listed I am only aware of one meaning. Maybe its an ESL thing but I think if you ask the average redditor what AMA, LOL and ATM mean, they will answer 'ask me anything', 'laughing out loud' and 'that thing you get cash money from'.
And like I said 'edit' already exists and is barely longer than 'ETA', so what is even the point in abbreviating it if it only makes it more unclear and its barely shorter anyway.
Edit: I thought I saw a reply mentioning ATM as ‘at the moment’, I forgot about that one, its very common indeed. I think it was the capitalisation that threw me off.
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u/DownrightDrewski Apr 24 '26
Someone had downvoted every comment correctly saying edited to add. I'm guessing it's because they're thinking about estimated time of arrival, but, in context that makes no fucking sense.