So sick of this...

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by XAntoftheSkyX

At least everyone else's letters don't look like half a Playstation ad. or a physics equation.

Or a defunct wrestling stable.


I really haven't had any problems with the Greek spelling of ASA, but there are several orgs that also use the abbreviation 'ASA' - such as the American Softball Association. I was playing church league softball one night and someone said something along the lines of "ASA rules state that..." and I had to catch myself before I asked him what my sorority rules had to do with the game, and why he supposedly knew them....

[33girl]

Or the Asian Students Association, or the African Students Association. I remember seeing an article in the Carnegie Mellon paper about ASA and thought "since when do we have a chapter there?"

I've actually had an alum Panhel member call us Alpha Epsilon Alpha during a roll call. I guess I shouldn't have assumed that a) just because you're on Panhel you might know there are other chapters out there that weren't at your school b) people in a Greek organization would actually know the Greek alphabet.

[ree-Xi]

Imagine the jokes that the people who run this therapist referral site:

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Don't sweat it. I think that probably every fraternity or sorority has had jokes made about their letters, their acronyms, or even the sound of their name.

The people who matter know what it's all about. If you want to make sure people realize that your letters aren't E A T, you might think about not using them in "cute" sayings anymore.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by peppermint23

Or we use it to our advantage, as in "EAT YOUR HEART OUT" or "GREATNESS"

oh, um, yeah. What ree-xi said.

You can't get mad at people for riffing off something that you yourselves are perpetuating. When Greeks mis-translate their own letters, it makes them look really ridiculous.

[Senusret I]

Originally Posted by LikeASista

I never know what to say when someone looks at my AKA t-shirt and yells, "Also-known-as WHAT?"

My little bro in APO saw a flier that said AKA Party and asked me "Also known as a party? What else would it be called?"

lol

[PeppyGPhiB]

I remember a guy at a market once asking me who "roB" was.

[Always AlphaGam]

I was staffing a Meet the Greeks table at my alma mater once and a girl came up to us and asked why we had her name on our banners and signs.

Her name was ARA.

[sapphirekey]

In the other direction-- DG at my campus have been using the phrase "GET ON BOARD!" for their recruitment, with the AR in board replaced with a delta & a gamma. I get it, it's cute, but in my head it sounds like "get on bodged" every time I see it.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by 33girl

When Greeks mis-translate their own letters, it makes them look really ridiculous.

I agree.

[Preston327]

I've had a few people ask me why I wear the scales of justice on my shirt. Never imagined Delta Tau Delta looking like that but now that I think of it it kind of fits with our history

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by sapphirekey

In the other direction-- DG at my campus have been using the phrase "GET ON BOARD!" for their recruitment, with the AR in board replaced with a delta & a gamma. I get it, it's cute, but in my head it sounds like "get on bodged" every time I see it.

LOL. I don't like it when people replace letters like that. We get it but it is "bodged."

[littleowl33]

Originally Posted by IrishLake

I once had a shirt that said something about "Thetas" and people would ask me all the time "What does 'The Tas' mean?"

This reminds of when the Theta chapter on my campus put up a huuuge recruitment banner on the breezeway (a central part of campus) that just said "THETA." and a non-greek friend of mine told me it was something about TA appreciation. TA, as in Teaching Assistant. I guess she thought it was supposed to emphasize the importance of THE TA?

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by XAntoftheSkyX

At least everyone else's letters don't look like half a Playstation ad. or a physics equation.

My letters are OBVIOUSLY Greek and we STILL get "those AEO girls". Le sigh!

[XAntoftheSkyX]

Not GLO-related, but I get a ton of jokes made about using 3 X's to mark things that are mine or the 3 X's on my tattoo.

Yes, I DO know Triple X. We hang all the time.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

I remember a guy at a market once asking me who "roB" was.

I've gotten the "roB" pointed out to me, too. But, my sister has repeatedly mentioned that Gamma Phi has "cool letters" -- she's a Zeta Tau Alpha and she laments that none of their letters are obviously part of the Greek Alphabet. It's all relative, I guess.