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ftw

Monday, May 12th, 2008 11:25 am

I had been seeing “ftw” in internet chit chat for a while, and I just finally got around to looking it up and seeing what it actually means: “for the win”.

In the meantime, I had just sort of assumed it was an inversion of “wtf” — sort of taking the aghastness of “wtf” and adding onto it a fillip of “wack”! So I’d been reading it as “fuck the what!”. I actually like that a lot better than “for the win”.

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2 Responses to “ftw”

  1. eric Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm

    I always thought it meant Fuck the World (at least that’s what it once meant, in the pre-internet 1980s, when FTW was a tag used by a number of gangs)

  2. LQ Says:
    May 12th, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    oh yeah! fuck the world. i’d forgotten about that. that’s better too.

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