I don’t get stuck on that one, but I do get stuck on... ooh, what’s the other one??? Uh... damn!
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Acronyms
- Thread starter Joe Nerve
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Another Thread this morning brought me through a long rabbit hole that eventually brought me to Brittany Spears.
She has a song "If U Seek Amy", it is not an acronym, what is this called when you put words together to sound like other words?
I like this kind of word play better than acronyms.
She has a song "If U Seek Amy", it is not an acronym, what is this called when you put words together to sound like other words?
I like this kind of word play better than acronyms.
Acronyms? When I have passengers on board, may times I am asked what language I am speaking to Air Traffic Control as they can't understand what is being communicated. That said , it is necessary to keep the radio airways clear by using acronyms as we are all sharing the same frequencies with ATC. Many students have a much harder time learning ATC communications than actually learning how to fly the plane.
My favourites.....
TLA = Three Letter Acronym
ETLA = Extended Three Letter Acronym
List of forms of word play - Wikipedia
TLA = Three Letter Acronym
ETLA = Extended Three Letter Acronym
Medicine too. Patient notes are virtually indecipherable to the uninitiated.
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List of forms of word play - Wikipedia
Actually, it's only an acronym if it makes a word you can pronounce. For instance, FWIW isn't an acronym, because it isn't a "word"; but FOD (Foreign Object Damage) is. And yeah, the military does love acronyms - like FOD. Although, that one is too much of a word. I listened to people talk about "FOD damage" for half my life. I still wonder "What the hell is 'foreign object damage - damage?" I actually spent a lot of my Air Force career in an acronym; a
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Rapid
Engineer
Deployable
Heavy
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unit. The Air Force's Combat Engineers...
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Actually, it's only an acronym if it makes a word you can pronounce. For instance, FWIW isn't an acronym, because it isn't a "word"; but FOD (Foreign Object Damage) is. And yeah, the military does love acronyms - like FOD. Although, that one is too much of a word. I listened to people talk about "FOD damage" for half my life. I still wonder " What the hell is 'foreign object damage - damage?" I actually spent a lot of my Air Force career in an acronym; a
Rapid
Engineer
Deployable
Heavy
Operational
Repair
Squadron
Engineer
unit. The Air Force's Combat Engineers...
PIN Number.
ACRONYM = Another Cryptic Rendition Of Nomenclature You Memorize
"Although the word acronym is often used to refer to any abbreviation formed from initial letters, some dictionaries and usage commentators define acronym to mean an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word,
in contrast to an initialism (or alphabetism)—an abbreviation formed from a string of initials (and possibly pronounced as individual letters).
The distinction, when made, hinges on whether the abbreviation is pronounced as a word or as a string of individual letters.
Eg. NATO, scuba, and radar for acronyms;
and FBI, CRT , and HTML for initialisms."
Acronym - Wikipedia
"Although the word acronym is often used to refer to any abbreviation formed from initial letters, some dictionaries and usage commentators define acronym to mean an abbreviation that is pronounced as a word,
in contrast to an initialism (or alphabetism)—an abbreviation formed from a string of initials (and possibly pronounced as individual letters).
The distinction, when made, hinges on whether the abbreviation is pronounced as a word or as a string of individual letters.
Eg. NATO, scuba, and radar for acronyms;
and FBI, CRT , and HTML for initialisms."
Acronym - Wikipedia
I think most of those are initialisms, not acronyms. IMHO YMMV WWJD IIRC.
I tend not to use them at all. stopping to think about how to turn a short phrase into an acronym takes longer than just typing the phrase. And I agree they're out of control. Navigating the internet is practically a course in a second language anymore. 21st Century shorthand.
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It's an acronym Joe! That's what this whole thread is about. Geez!
(I don't know any of these tbh)
(I don't know any of these tbh)
Too Long Didn't Read.
Can be in the OP as a pre or post summary of an epic.
Can be a retort to an overlong OP.
Can be a qualifier on ones response ie ''I might have got the wrong end of the stick because I couldn't be arsed reading your overlong epic rant but here's my 10c based on what everyone said''.
OP: TLDR ''tge skinny version''
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TLDR: the skinny version
In my experience, TLDR has two meanings, depending on who's written it.
If it's the Original Poster, it refers to a short hopefully succinct summary of whatever the heck the point was.
If it's someone replying, it meant they can't be bothered reading anything more than a single sentence, but, by golly, they're gonna go ahead and comment anyway. This rarely helps.
If it's the Original Poster, it refers to a short hopefully succinct summary of whatever the heck the point was.
If it's someone replying, it meant they can't be bothered reading anything more than a single sentence, but, by golly, they're gonna go ahead and comment anyway. This rarely helps.
And I raise an ATM machine.
