Acronyms

[jj]

This is a fairly handy place to look if you get stumped:
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

It didn't know the first four I typed into it.

 

[Mephisto]

This is a fairly handy place to look if you get stumped:
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/index.html

Hey Hazen! TARCAYHT! (or, that's a really cool avatar you have there).

Oh and BTW, WTTF (and by the way, welcome to the forum).

 

[Snide]

One year there was a softball team up in here in Minnesota that named themselves IITYWIMWYBMAB.

If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a beer?

 

[jj]

One year there was a softball team up in here in Minnesota that named themselves IITYWIMWYBMAB.

If I tell you what it means, will you buy me a beer?

Exactly.

 

[to.by]

I se that I did not express myself clearly enough. What I ment was that terms like RADAR, LASER and suchlike are so well integrated into the language that avoiding them are a waste of time. What I would like to see, is less of the nonstandard acronyms.

By the way, I'm Norwegian, not British.

 

[richardm]

What I would like to see, is less of the nonstandard acronyms.

I sA, U must rly h8 d nu txtN lngwij dat iz BcumN so populR.

(edited 2 +: yyssw, I knO theyre not acronyms. bt hA.)

 

[Ladewig]

Some are very thread specific.

For some reason I really prefer ADC, JE, JvP, and SB to after-death communicators, John Edward, James VanPraag and Sylvia Brown.

If there are acronyms that you cannot deduce, then simply ask.

 

[Kerberos]

Your point is well taken, but I think there's a distinction between technical jargon and Internet slang; I was referring mostly to the latter. I wouldn't expect a biologist to write out "deoxyribonucleic acid" 50 times in a technical paper;

Also IMHO *Ouch, stop hitting me* far more people would understand "DNA" than "deoxyribonucleic acid".

 

[Mephisto]

Also IMHO *Ouch, stop hitting me* far more people would understand "DNA" than "deoxyribonucleic acid".

Or SCUBA instead of Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus - Still I agree to a point with the OP. Sometimes it does take awhile to determine WTF is being said.

 

[Snide]

After the day I'm having, all I can say is TFSMIF!!

 

[Tanja]

By the way, any www.fark.com readers here? They hive tags to all the listed articles, such as "obvious", "spiffy" "Florida" etc. One of the tags is "PSA". Anyone knows what it stands for?

 

[Snide]

By the way, any www.fark.com readers here? They hive tags to all the listed articles, such as "obvious", "spiffy" "Florida" etc. One of the tags is "PSA". Anyone knows what it stands for?

Public Service Announcement?

 

[Hazen]

Hey Hazen! TARCAYHT! (or, that's a really cool avatar you have there).

Oh and BTW, WTTF (and by the way, welcome to the forum).

Thanks for the welcome.
As for the avatar, actually I nicked it.
I imagine if anyone in the know was aware, I'd probably get slammed for copyright violation. It's an album cover from Uriah Heeps' "Abominog" album.
One of my favourites from my very metal phase years ago.....

 

[Beerina]

Actually, NOLA is the acronym for New Orleans. However, most people on the board use NO. I used to live there, so I feel compelled to point it out.

Damn, a shrimp po'boy and a cup of gumbo from that little restaraunt on Bourbon street, with the awning and rails right across from the little voodoo shop would go down real nice right now. Best gumbo I've found down there, and that includes most of the snotty restaraunts.