Tuesday, April 28, 2020

SNAFU/ Situation Normal: All Fucked Up/https://www.google.com/search?q=+SNAFU



snafu
/snaˈfuː,ˈsnafuː/
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informal•North American
noun
noun: snafu; plural noun: snafus

a confused or chaotic state; a mess.
"an enormous amount of my time was devoted to untangling snafus"

adjective: snafu

in utter confusion or chaos.
"our refrigeration plant is snafu"


snafuing

throw (a situation) into chaos.
"you ignored his orders and snafued everything"


Origin
1940s: acronym from situation normal: all fouled (or fucked ) up .
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What does snafu mean in the military?
SNAFU is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up, as a well-known example of military acronym slang. However, the military acronym originally stood for "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up." It is sometimes bowdlerized to all fouled up or similar.

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  1. Tuesday, April 28, 2020
    SNAFU/ Situation Normal: All Fucked Up/https://www.google.com/search?q=+SNAFU SNAFU is an acronym that is widely used to stand for sarcastic expression
    "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up".
    SNAFU = "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up".
    Simply translates to
    ‌ေအး‌ေအး‌ေ ဆး ‌ေ ဆး ဘဲ
    ရ ဆ ထ /‌ေ ရ‌ေ ဆး ထား
    GLOSSARY
    sarcastic
    /sɑːˈkastɪk/
    adjective
    marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt.
    "making sarcastic comments"
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    Similar:
    sardonic
    ironic
    ironical
    satirical
    derisive
    scornful
    contemptuous
    mocking
    ridiculing
    sneering
    jeering

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  2. Tuesday, April 28, 2020
    SNAFU/ Situation Normal: All Fucked Up/https://www.google.com/search?q=+SNAFU SNAFU is an acronym that is widely used to stand for sarcastic expression
    "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up".
    SNAFU = "Status Nominal: All Fucked Up".
    Simply translates to စနာ ဖူး
    ‌ေအး‌ေအး‌ေ ဆး ‌ေ ဆး ဘဲ
    ရ ဆ ထ /‌ေ ရ‌ေ ဆး ထား
    GLOSSARY
    sarcastic
    /sɑːˈkastɪk/
    adjective
    marked by or given to using irony in order to mock or convey contempt.
    "making sarcastic comments"

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