acronyms
 

Is anyone else really tired of acronyms or is it just me? For instance, if I see "CC" I know it can mean Cubic Centimeter" or Coca Cola or Credit Card or College Confidential or Community College, etc. so, when I see an acronym I must stop and ponder which one is appropriate for what I'm reading and if there are a lot of them in the article or story I just stop reading.

I agree with you.

Totally agree. I use some here as others do but sometimes I have to think what they're talking about. Some of the ones on social media are so far off base. I just ask my "DGD" lol, what it means.

Easy to get caught up in.

No, CC is my initials!!! I still have trouble with made up words like YAY. i keep thinking it stands for three words instead of Yea! oh well.

Funny you should bring this up. When I first began seeing DH, I thought they (who ever used it) was cursing the man they married. Silly me. They were being sweet on their Dear Husband. I don't mind them especially since I am learning to text more since I got unlimited texting on my phone contract. Have to keep up with the young ones. :D:D

I don't even think about it. I work in IT so my life is chock full of acronyms and I guess I'm just used to them. They don't usually trip me up.

I do hate it when people type in "text speak" in regular email though, especially at work. If I get an email at work where someone is typing things like, "I have a file 4 U" I will respond and ask what a "File 4-U" is and why they're telling me about it. I'm at a level now where I can be a bit of an old crank about stuff like that! I don't mind things like "LOL" but 4 instead of "for" and U instead of "you" is too much!

You think these acronyms are bad; you haven't begun to see acronyms until you've been in the military. LOL

I am tired of having to figure them out so i just look bored and ask the speaker to explain wth they are trying to comminicate! ;). Industry specific ones are especially aggravating if I am not in that world. Wriiten word? At least, initially spell out the words and enclose the acronym in parentheses so, that, I, at least understand the shortcut.

I attended a committee meeting last Saturday and acronyms for the seminary were used......i am sorry, I am not ordained so I have zero clue about the curiculum and the acronyms for the tests. Sigh.......

Just be mindful of the audience who is not in your industry.

sandy

We had this subject brought up last year sometime. I do not initial anything if I don't have to. I listen to my son the IT/CIO which I know is a title or two, but I just say he works for a company and he is their computer go to person.

When I was growing up -- I am going to age you now -- we had spelling bees. I loved them. I was always top speller, because my mother wanted to make sure I knew not only what the word meant, but how to use it and most importantly how to spell it. What good is a word if you cannot spell it? So, you see on television "sur" "evr" "LMHO" and it is so sloppy and it just, to me, looks dumb. It makes no sense. They don't have spelling bees in school anymore. They haven't for several years. I asked when my son was in school. You ready for this one? Competition is not good for children. It makes them feel inferior. Holy Cats!!!!!! So here we are, they can't even spell "sure" "ever" or "laugh my head off". I don't laugh my head off. I think it is pathetic. Remember SST? Well, the Super Sonic Transport airplane is grounded permanently. But they have an acronym for it.

I am sorry, but the hairs on the back of my neck just flair out when this subject comes up. I let my grandkids know that if they send me an email, spell every word out - if you don't know how to spell it, look it up in the dictionary.

Perhaps we can set a precedence here? No acronyms, no DH or DDIL or GGS/D. I can't even order a BLT at a restaurant - "I'll have a bacon, lettuce and tomato with Miracle Whip, please!

Have a good day. I have a new quilt to work on starting today. Calico Puzzle - it is easy enough, but I am doing it with a lot of fussy-cutting.

Edie

I am a retired nurse. I can't look at a licence plate and not come up with something that 'stands for' something medical!

For example: BCP (birth control pills) SOB (no, not what you're thinking - shortness of breath) DVT (deep vein thrombosis)

As has been previously mentioned, we put these acronyms into a context that is familiar to us (IT, military, medical field etc). I don't get my panties in a bunch - it is kinda fun to guess what everybody means - and I too am at a stage where I don't care if I seem dumb cause I don't get it!

Cc can also mean 'carbon copy.' Yes, tired of acronyms...people are in such a hurry to get things done these days, I guess.

Edie I agree with everything you just said sometimes I think they want the kids of today to be dummys they cannot even do math any more they are even taking the American history out of the schools

As a former English teacher, I must say that you are all "preaching to the choir." I try to maintain a good vocabulary and definitely attempt to use the best written and spoken language that I can. There is nothing wrong with having a good education and using it whenever and wherever possible.

My son and I converse over the computer-have been for several years. He use to know how to spell. Since texting became popular I feel like I'm trying to figure out cave drawings. We all have our own kind of shorthand while typing. GDs are now A - C or E. Sometimes I have to write back saying what is this ?? then I get the Oh Mother and I can actually see his eyes rolling as he writes it out for me. lol


















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I totally agree. I spend half of my time looking up these letters. Even worse, my Dear Daughter has been in the army for 24 years and she speaks mostly in acronmys!

Competition is bad for kids? Then I guess the patriots are bad examples for kids? I am not even willing to think about all the competition in the military...
I am way more annoyed by the lack of penmanship training. Used to be only Doctors has lousy writing, now it's everyone under 40!

Oh the military has the best acronyms ever.....SPAM, CUBA, RADAR, OHAU, FUBAR, an acronym for every one, every occasion, every state of being.

When I was teaching we would frequently get handouts at faculty meetings containing acronyms without a clue as to what they stood for so we made up our own answers. Needless to say, many of them could not be used in "polite company", especially if we had had a bad day.

I so agree with you!!! I notice words here like "boarders" for borders and "it's" for "its" as well as other misspellings. I was never allowed to become careless with my spelling when in school. Now, after 78 years, I have a damaged nerve in my dominant hand, and I am embarrassed to say that I often strike two letters at once when I mean to hit only one letter. This has caused me much grief; it is irreparable, but I notice the error every time.

Don't worry about your typing. I could read every word and I did not see a misspelled word at all. My husband used to get mad at me when I saw a misspelled word. I would even go in the store and tell them. Well, I figure if they can't spell the words, that says a lot about the quality of a product they are selling. Anyhow, he'd get upset with me.

I am 76 and I type like a raving fool - still try to keep up with 80 words per minute. Only problem, you ask? My brain goes faster than my hands. I am trying to figure out how to splint my two index fingers (Popsicle sticks, maybe) so I can pull the needle when I tie a quilt. And keep my left flip finger ( know what I mean?????) from getting another attack of Raynaud's Phenomenon (no dictionary for me!!!!) and my finger turns white and gets horribly painful.. I'll think of something, I am sure.

I want to thank everyone for agreeing with me and the others. I know there is no history anymore and thank God my granddaughter goes to a super school in New Prague, Minnesota where they teach Civics. That, too, is an important subject. I love History and Civics. I don't even think they have business classes in high school anymore. Can you imagine someone (including my granddaughter) who can text but put her in front of a keyboard and she looks dumb. Speed and accuracy tests every Friday. Heck, I even took one year Shorthand. Hated that - Ended up as a stenographer with the old Edison wax tubes that he invented the phonograph on. That was in 1956. No regrets. The kids think I am from way way back when I tell them about the Ediphone I used for transcribing dictation that the bosses used by talking into something that sort of looked like a hearing trumpet!!!!! These kids are missing out on so much.

Enough. I have to get back to my sewing.

Have a great weekend. Edie

Ah...the good old days of the dictaphone, Gregg & Pitman shorthand, manual typewriters, the IBM Selectrics, rotary dial telephones, adding machines with tapes, non-computerized cash registers, grocery clerks who added up your bill on brown paper bags without using a calculator...I could go on and on...and to think, I'm only 59 and miss some of these things!

Yes, misspelling is one of my pet peeves. When did it become a law that if a word ends in "S" it MUST have an apostrophe in front of it?

BTW, HAND....(By the way, have a nice day!) :)

...or work in the healthcare industry, construction industry or just about any industry or area of specialized whatever. i am a R.N. who married an Engineer, who reared a son who is a Software Engineer (that speaks very little english as you and i would know it) & we all laugh as we "interpret" for fam & friends :D

acronyms - for many it's just a way of life.

I don't really care if they use acronyms as long as they are specific to what we are talking about. Sometimes I think they make that stuff up on the fly because it makes absolutely no sense when using it in that particular context.

you all make me feel so normal now . My children give me a slight teasing at times not knowing the texting lingo. I sent my grandchild My first selfie with my headlamp readers on which I need at times to reverse sew. All the kids reaction was interesting to say the least--they don't sew. It certainly was teehee moment.

I have been awake since one o'clock thinking about acronyms, etcetera and I noted some more machines that we worked on back when and I remembered learning - the Comptometer. Google it! I swear the picture they show, circa 1899, I learned on. After I got out of high school I never saw one again.

I have come to the conclusion that we are the normal ones. I don't have a camera that I can take a selfie with. I just look in the mirror every morning and I think "Oh,My Goodness, I am looking at my mother!!!!!!! I hate cell phones. I got one about ten years ago, and every January I go to the Mobile I store and give them $10.00 and they give me a few minutes. That lasts the year. If I go out of town (between 85 and 110 miles), I take it with me. Otherwise, it is plugged in on my cupboard that holds fabric. There is nothing in this world short of an emergency that I would ever use a cellphone, or whatever they call them now and if God had meant for us to be walking around texting and talking on the phone, He would have put a finger in our ear. I do like my computer, however. It keeps my paid bills in order, it keeps my quilts and patterns in order, it keeps my photographs that go back 76 years in order and it saves on stamps!!!!!! I can email my sisters and get a reply in ten minutes - You can't beat that with a spoon. And in this day and age that the three of us are, the faster I can type and get my information from Point A to Point B and back again, the sooner I can forget about it! And, also, too, I can type in notes to myself and keep track of that. I have Post-It NOtes all over the house I pin my patterns with a note, I have notes on the bathroom mirror, computer screen, refrigerator, car, bedroom (be sure at watch such and such at 8:00 - Channel 5 on the tv.

I think that covers acronyms doesn't it?????? Oh, I forgot calendars - those little glue-y ones that fit on the tile in the bathroom, the refrigerator (doesn't count the one on the cupboard in the kitchen with the pocket in it so you don't forget to pay the property taxes in May and October), the car, the sewing machine, the porch and the computer. I generally know what day it is (today is Saturday), I just don't do dates very well. The dates just aren't important. Besides I have a calendar in the computer that tells me what time it is, what day it is, and what the date is and whose birthday it is, and when my haircut is!!!!!! What else in this world do I need?

Well, today is Saturday and my list tells me I have to cut strips into 2-1/2" binding, fold them in half, iron them, sew them on my quilt that I am finishing up, iron the clothes that are still in the dryer and throw the load from the washer into the dryer and remember while I am down in the basement to bring up some soup and applesauce from the freezer. It's all written down, since day before yesterday. Can't cross it off the list until I do it!!!!!

Have a great day - it is supposed to hit +40* today. Yes, I have to clean up doggie-doo-doo today. That's been on my list since December 25!!!!! I am so glad my mom told me that she had most of her fun after 70. Cuz, I am having a ball. Keep your sense of humor and if it takes a few minutes longer to write out the words, do so! Keeps the fingers nimble! Edie

I am absolutely with you! It sets my teeth on edge when I get emails that have phrases like - "how r u?"

I do understand there was a time when texting was more like it used to be to send a telegram and you needed to save characters. Now, though, most texts are unlimited and most devices anticipate what you are typing so you don't need to type all of it. There is no excuse and I consider it to be rude.

I agree, but they are everywhere. I worked for the Federal Government for 28+ years and I had that problem with anyone who did not. I would go to meeting and have to explain what we were talking about with all the xyz's.

Or any government position!!

It takes me a lot longer to text a short message (touch screen is way too inexact for my fat fingers) than to e-mail a long one. I don't miss snail mail at all! Text will sometimes get to the recipient faster than e-mail, but not if I'm the recipient. And everyone knows to call on my land line, not the cell phone because I don't carry it around the house with me and I don't answer when I'm driving. If I have a bluetooth I'll make a dentist appointment.

What makes me angrier than initializing everything is when the news cast on TV has words spell incorrectly on the screen. Last night the printed announcement was something like "Weather tempt coming up"; so I was pondering if the weather was really tempted or not, and if it would actually come to pass. And pass is another one. Too many times I've seen a printed article on someone who has died but is listed as "past" instead of "passed".