- I'm not gonna know any of these. (laughs)
- Yes, everyone's very familiar with AM/PM.
Do I know what it stands for? No. - AOL?
♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) So, this might be TMI, but IMO, this will be a V. interesting
episode of The Tens. - Stop.
- All right, you lost me. (chuckles) - (FBE) We will be going through
10 abbreviations that may be commonly used, yet you may not know
the meaning behind. - I probably won't. (chuckles)
- (FBE) Often we use abbreviations in place of full terms to save time
and effort, so we're gonna go through and check some of these out.
- Oh, great. - I'm not gonna know any
of these. (laughs) - (FBE) All right. So,
the first abbreviation is one you may use or hear quite regularly.
- Shoot. I don't know what that stands for.
The only thing I can think of is "at the moment."
- At the moment, I think. Right?
- I know what it is. You get money from it,
but I don't know what it stands for. Automatic something money.
- Automated something money. (chuckles) I don't know.
- Advanced transaction machine. Something along those lines.
- Automatic transfer machine. I never think of what ATM stands for.
It's just the ATM. - I'm assuming something,
something money maybe? All the money. (laughs)
I don't know why that would make any sense.
Something money. - (FBE) Let's see what it is.
- Automated teller machine. Okay.
Yeah. Nope. Wouldn't have thought of that. (laughs)
- What? Teller?
What does teller have to do with money?
- Automated teller machine. Oh, 'cause it's a teller. Ohhh.
- The only thing I knew was auto and machine.
Didn't know about mated or teller. Oopsie.
- (FBE) So next up, I'm gonna show you an acronym
for media that you may have used. - Okay.
- Okay. Oh, HBO. (sucks in breath)
Yeah, I have no idea. - I took a media class,
and they actually explained HBO was one of the first blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. They did explain the abbreviation.
I forgot the abbreviation. I'm sorry, professor.
- HBO? I think of the channel. I'm not thinking of abbreviation. HBO.
- Just a TV network like CBS or ABC, just letters.
- HBO? Oh, shoot. Hyperboles only.
- I don't know. It could be anything.
Um... What's the O?! (chuckles) - Hub... uh...
Browsing...
I give up. - Home-- (gasps) Home Box Of--
That's actually-- wow. I never thought about that.
- Home Box Office. Yeah, that makes so much sense.
The Home Box Office channel. It sounds so boring.
- Home Box Office?
That doesn't even make sense to me. I just thought it was HBO.
I was like, "That's it. That's what it's called." (laughs)
- Okay, it makes sense. You know how they have the Redbox
that you go rent out movies with? Instead of doing that,
it's like, oh, it's available for you at home.
- (FBE) So, we don't really use this one as often anymore
nowadays obviously, but you know what this is.
- AOL.
No clue. I feel like I should know what this is, but I don't.
- Ooh. I know this one. It's like email stuff.
My dad has an AOL account. - AOL. Yeah, I've never
ever heard that before. - I know it, but I forget
what it's for! - AOL. aol.com?
It's probably gonna stand for like automated something...
I don't know. (laughs) - AOL. Automated mes-- no.
Automated Online-- Automated-- no?
- America Online. All of these are so simple,
but I just can't seem to remember what it stands for.
- America Online. Why the online?
Isn't online one word, not two words?
- I'm not hearing this American Online often,
so it's like my brain automatically thinks
that this is just the word AOL. - (FBE) So, the acronym isn't used
as often as before, but it's still referred to.
Did you ever wonder what it meant? - No.
If I heard of it? Maybe. Maybe I would've figured it out
if I heard it in the right sentence. - I always heard what it was
just because people's emails sometimes would have AOL still in it,
but now I don't see anyone using it. - 'Cause they're boring.
It's a boring way of saying it. - (FBE) Let's see this next one.
- SUV. Oh, like a car. Super Ultimate Vehicle.
Submachine-- I don't even know. - V is vehicle. (chuckles)
The SU... I should know this.
- I know what an SUV is. I don't know what it stands for.
If I'm thinking of it in the right context,
I think it's a car. - Is it small vehicle--
no, it's like-- no, not small.
Super Unimportant Vehicle. (chuckles) - I know vehicle for sure.
And watch me be wrong about that too.
I don't know. This is bad. I feel like I should know
what these mean. - Oh. Sports utility vehicle.
- Sports utility! I knew that. Okay.
I knew that. I swear I knew that.
- It's just an SUV. You don't need to call it
a sports utility vehicle. - It's just too long,
like sports utility vehicle. Just SUV is much quicker.
- (FBE) So, do you think of these acronyms or their meaning
when you use some of these, or does it feel like
it's just the name itself of something?
- Yeah, I don't think of it like that unless--
I always learn the acronym before what it stands for,
so then I never remember what it stands for.
- It's not being lazy. It's just acronyms
are used for a reason. You're not gonna say it
all out loud. It saves a lot of time,
it's convenient, and it's just-- it's marketable.
- (FBE) All right. So, this next acronym is from
the happiest place on Earth. - (gasps) Disney?
It's kind of a long one. Two whole syllables.
- I thought it was just Epcot. I don't think I know what Epcot is.
- Entertainment...
Hmm...
I was gonna say in Spanish
"pour" like "for," but I highly doubt that.
- Epicenter of-- (chuckles) I don't-- I have no idea.
- Experimental-- yeah, no. What?! - I've never heard of that ever,
not even the words together. What is that?
- Dang it! I thought travel, 'cause you know how it's all
around the world at Epcot. - Experimental Prototype
Community of Tomorrow. Who came up with this?!
- (FBE) Fun fact: Walt Disney himself
actually created that acronym in 1966. - He was a smart guy.
I hope they unfreeze his head soon. - Experimental Prototype Community
of Tomorrow isn't really catchy, but I'll forgive that
'cause Epcot is catchy. - (FBE) Next up is an acronym
most teens may more prominently know. - Okay. UFO. I know this.
I have to. Is this a challenge? 'Cause then I'm pretty sure I lost.
(laughs) - UFO. Spaceships. Aliens.
Yeah? Are we talking about the same thing? Okay.
- UFO. Oh. Unknown Flying Object.
- UFO. (stutters) Unidentified Flying Object.
Nailed it. (loud thud)
- Unidentified Flying Object. - Unidentified Flying Object.
I feel like you kind of grow up knowing what UFO stands for.
- Close, but no. - Ah! (claps)
That's the same thing. - Got one. (chuckles)
- Okay. I did not know that. (chuckles) I did not know that.
I don't know how I didn't, but I did not.
- I don't think I've ever used the full word of UFO ever
in any of the sentences I've ever spoken in my entire life.
- I don't know how I learned about what a UFO is.
You kind of just know it. I don't-- life is weird, man.
English is so weird. (chuckles) - In third grade,
I traumatized myself, because I just kept watching
UFO videos and alien sightings, like super late,
and I got so afraid of that stuff. - (FBE) All right, next up.
- IQ. All right. Now this, I really don't know what it means.
- I was watching an episode of Ant Farm. Someone mentioned
that there's an IQ test, and someone was like,
"Is that an idiot quiz?" And then someone else was like,
"No, it's a..."
Wait. Ah, why?
- IQ. Intelligence quota. - Intelligence quiz. I don't know.
Intelligence...
quotient. I have no idea. - Like, your smartness.
So, your intelligence...
quotient?
- Intelligence quotient. I know this one. Psychology.
AP Psych. Woot. Woot. - Intelligence quotient. Shoot.
I should watch more Ant Farm. - I knew this. I'm smart.
I have a high IQ. Okay, I took AP Psych last year,
so I kinda had to know that.
- Quotient? - Oh, what?
- (FBE) Correct. - Huh. (chuckles)
I just guessed with letters of Q. - (FBE) All right, so this next one
may be one that you see more frequently?
- (FBE) Maybe you don't use it, but you see it often.
- FAQ. Mm... I'm not totally sure
what it's used for. - I think I've seen FAQ
at the bottom of webpages or something, but I'm not too sure
what it stands for. - Oh.
Oh my god. It's not clicking. Oh my god.
- Frequently asked question. (claps) - Frequently asked questions.
(claps) The one I know. - Frequently asked questions.
Pretty much every website you go on that you buy something has FAQs on it.
- Frequently asked questions! Are you kidding me?!
I'ma say I know this one, 'cause I did subconsciously.
- Frequently asked q-- oh, yeah. That makes a lot more sense.
It all came together. - Well, now, looking back,
okay, that makes sense. - (FBE) Is this one that you see
more frequently in your everyday? - Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
How many times did I ASK you to say that question?
- If you're buying something online, it pretty much always has a FAQs part.
- (FBE) So, this next one is a pair of abbreviations
that we use almost every day. - Oh. I better know it.
- Oh. AM/PM, like morning/night. Oh, oh! It's-- the "P" is "post."
- After midnight, past midnight. (chuckles) Wait, no, no, no! [Bleep].
- Yes, everyone's very familiar with AM/PM.
Do I know what it stands for? No. Pacific and Atlantic?
- What?
I don't even know. I've never heard of this word ever.
- The top one, is that Spanish? Before the middle, after the middle
is what I'm guessing. - Meridiem. I don't know what that is.
- I'ma stick with my at morning, past morning.
- I would not have guessed that, but I remember that it was something
that I wouldn't originally think of. - Yeah, who would use that
in their day to day? I'm gonna wake--
I'm gonna set my alarm at ante meridiem-- at 10.
Like, I would not use that. - (FBE) Finally, we have a last
abbreviation for you. - All right.
- (FBE) I'm sure you've seen this one. - RSVP.
I've seen it. I haven't thought twice about what...
the letters mean. - RSVP. It's-- ah.
It's when you get invited to the party.
You say, "Yeah, I'm gonna be there."
- It's like a verb. That's the verb. You just RSVP.
Yeah, I'll RSVP. (chuckles) - Reserve spaces...
Wait. Oh! I use this so often!
- Reserve something. I don't know.
Without even knowing what it is, I don't think I would use
the full word in my sentence. - I think this is in French?
Yeah, I'm not gonna guess it. But I know it's in French.
- (FBE) RSVP is no longer used much in France, but...
- Respondez s'il vous p-- what the hell?
- Oh, wow. Why did I think that I would know it?
I don't speak French. - Responsive s-- yeah.
That's French. Okay, cool. - (FBE) So finally,
after learning what some of these everyday abbreviations meant,
what is one abbreviation you use regularly
but didn't know what it stood for? - Oh. I think RSVP was definitely
the one I use the most and don't know what it means.
Almost all of these. - RSVP. (chuckles)
It's french apparently. - ATM definitely got me.
HBO. All of them. I was just lost.
- FAQ. I feel kind of stupid for not knowing that one. (chuckles)
I don't think it matters anymore. Maybe when they were first coming up
and people started using them, maybe it did.
But as long as we understand what it's used for,
we don't have to understand what it stands for.
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