Abbreviations.

[welsh dragon]

Not around these parts

Not here either.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Can I get you started on the subject of PIN numbers?

It's Personal Identification Number number, or PIN number for short, what's the problem?

 

[perplexed]

Nothing annoys me more than people who insist on using acronyms instead of words... after five minutes I've forgotten what the acronym stands for and care even less.

Oh yes.

At work they come out with frequent missives.

'Remember, in situation 'A', you must telephone 'B' with 'DEATHSTAR'. If that is inadequate, replace this with 'FLATULENTPUPPY'. If the occurance happens on a Tuesday and it's raining in Ecklefeckin, underscore the importance of the transfer with 'HEDGEHOG'. If it's a Thursday and sunny in Ecklefeckin, but overcast in Wigan, don't forget to prefix this with 'ELEPHANT MOLESTING', and blah blah blah...'

You wouldn't mind so much but they fuggin' change it all 3 weeks later.

 

[welsh dragon]

Oh yes.

At work they come out with frequent missives.

'Remember, in situation 'A', you must telephone 'B' with 'DEATHSTAR'. If that is inadequate, replace this with 'FLATULENTPUPPY'. If the occurance happens on a Tuesday and it's raining in Ecklefeckin, underscore the importance of the transfer with 'HEDGEHOG'. If it's a Thursday and sunny in Ecklefeckin, but overcast in Wigan, don't forget to prefix this with 'ELEPHANT MOLESTING', and blah blah blah...'

You wouldn't mind so much but theu then fuggin' change it all 3 weeks later.

I am so glad I don't have to put up with that rubbish anymore.

 

[ASC1951]

Not really. Abbreviations have been used by the younger generation for decades. The ones quoted have a long history.

Furthermore a lot of abbreviations used in text speak evolved from the need to conserve characters when txt messages were relatively expensive on PAYG and users tried to limit themselves to the 160 characters per message. ....

I'm old enough, just, to have come across the tail end of handwritten legal land documents at the start of my career. Originals were always written out in full, but it had been standard practice for several centuries to save time, effort and paper by leaving out most of the vowels in the copies. Typewriters are a century older than photocopiers so even in the 1960s it was common to have these 'abstracts' which had been typed with no vowels - with a bit of practice you can read them perfectly well.

You couldn't store text, either, so documents which had to be prepared in two almost-identical copies - a lease for instance - had to be typed with such precision that it made your eyeballs bleed. Tell that to young people today ......

 

[Archie_tect]

Two almost-identical copies sounds ominous ASC... one for the landlord and a slightly different one for the tenant, hoping that they'd lose their copy over time?

 

[rich p]

I'm old enough to know that anyone who gets really, really, really annoyed by such trivia is probably a CA

 

[Gravity Aided]

Errrr. What does TLA mean?

Over here, True Love Always. Also, Three Letter Agency-(NSA,CIA,FBI,etc.

 

[welsh dragon]

Over here, True Love Always.

Thanks GA

 

[Gravity Aided]

I think there may be a tree with my initials and those of a young lady from Peoria carved in the bark with that as subscript.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Originals were always written out in full, but it had been standard practice for several centuries to save time, effort and paper by leaving out most of the vowels in the copies.

Dickens made use of the same technique for his character Joe Gargery in Great Expectations, over 150 years ago.


GC

 

[Peter Armstrong]

IWBMATTKYT

 

[CopperCyclist]

I heard people say LOL. Actually say it.

 

[fossyant]

I heard people say LOL. Actually say it.

My son does that. Age thingy.

 

[fossyant]

BB30, STI, SPD, SLR, R-SYS - see I know the odd few the kids don't !!!!