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ACRONYMS

HayesGreener

HayesGreener

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I had retired to the ranch from the police department in 2000 with every intention of raising horses and cattle and being a gentleman farmer. I had done 9 years active duty in the USAF and remained in the Reserve, taking a short assignment here and there for a few days and my annual tour. Then 9/11 happened and I was immediately called to active duty. I was assigned to a major command HQ and my job as an agent involved attending staff meetings with the senior staff, which included 5 general officers and a bevy of colonels and straphangers. I was befuddled by the acronyms used by the briefers at these meetings and after a few was thinking, "gee, I have been away from the active-duty side for so long that I am no longer current", as I did not know what the acronyms meant. I tried to hide my befuddlement because everyone else in the room nodded their understanding at appropriate points in the briefings. Finally, after the third meeting I attended, the three-star at the head of the table says, "I don't understand a damn thing the briefer just said". There was a collective sigh of relief in the room, as no one else in the room understood the acronyms either. We had far fewer acronyms in the briefings after that.
 
HayesGreener said:
I had retired to the ranch from the police department in 2000 with every intention of raising horses and cattle and being a gentleman farmer. I had done 9 years active duty in the USAF and remained in the Reserve, taking a short assignment here and there for a few days and my annual tour. Then 9/11 happened and I was immediately called to active duty. I was assigned to a major command HQ and my job as an agent involved attending staff meetings with the senior staff, which included 5 general officers and a bevy of colonels and straphangers. I was befuddled by the acronyms used by the briefers at these meetings and after a few was thinking, "gee, I have been away from the active-duty side for so long that I am no longer current", as I did not know what the acronyms meant. I tried to hide my befuddlement because everyone else in the room nodded their understanding at appropriate points in the briefings. Finally, after the third meeting I attended, the three-star at the head of the table says, "I don't understand a damn thing the briefer just said". There was a collective sigh of relief in the room, as no one else in the room understood the acronyms either. We had far fewer acronyms in the briefings after that.
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When I moved to Louisville Kentucky I went to work for a government contractor making Navel guns and submarine missile tubes and other really cool stuff for Navy’s around the world. The amount of acronym’s used daily on reports were mind numbing.
The company at one point made up a book that was about 30 pages with close to 50 acronyms on each page with there definition. Still mind numbing.
 
Not that it matters in the overall scheme of things, but ............ an 'ACRONYM' is an abbreviation of letters that can be pronounced as a word IE: Potus, Scotus, snafu, CRS, NASA, CPAP, AIDS, HIPAA, NATO, OPEC, etc.

Initialisms on the other hand are abbreviations that are typically spelled out IE: FBI, IRS, BTW, OMG, IIRC, KFC, PTSD, RCMP, etc.

Even FORD is an acronym .... we all know what that stands for now don't we!!! Sorry you Ford guys, I just couldn't resist. I'll let myself out now. ;):D:D

Oddly enough there was a YAHOO (IIRC) news and info article just a few nights ago about this very topic.
 
I used to write military doctrine for the Army and military publications are full of acronyms. Each publication introduced the acronym by spelling it out with the associated acronym the first time, then did not spell it out again. That meant a reader who was unfamiliar with the subject matter would need to revisit the meaning from time to time until the acronym was committed to memory. I feel this can impede learning if there is an overabundance of acronyms.
 
Keystone19250 said:
You have just doomed @Old_Me to eating more alphabet soup and severe anxiety. And I also predict another Minion post from @Annihilator 🤦‍♂️🫣😵‍💫😂😂
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Saving a few keystrokes to make a point actually can take a moment to figure out what’s being conveyed. When there were limits to text message keystroke characters and even a per message cost to send a text, it made sense to shorten a word or name. That’s progress?
Expressing and commenting among groups can tedious, after all these formats are not formal essays. Being rather new to a hobby for instance, a new member may ponder what’s going downto the LGS and get a new BCG and a couple boxes of BTHP‘s. So how did the acronym make its way into everyday writings?

When did acronyms POTUS, FLOTUS OR SCOTUS become a thing? Was it to save type space on the printed newsprint or interoffice memoranda or was the intention merely to be more ”hip” and current?

Pop quiz; Which came first:
S-O-S … - - - … Morse code,
S * * * A Shingle,
Same Old S***
or
the SOS scouring pad

So in the name of ”progress” being made in the education system which is allowed to be managed by morons (via remote learnings), grade school spelling is not a prerequisite, and then just try understanding some the spoken word of the students they push through the system.
bc da worl wud b btr wmo acnymz ( : P

The only thing worse than an incomprehensible word salad coming from the establishment is an unnecessary acronym laden diatribe between angry social media dependent young folks. Maybe 20,000 years from now anthropologists will find fossils of hunched over (insert acronym) with a chin fused into the breast bone and massive thumbs.
 
Area52 said:
Saving a few keystrokes to make a point actually can take a moment to figure out what’s being conveyed. When there were limits to text message keystroke characters and even a per message cost to send a text, it made sense to shorten a word or name. That’s progress?
Expressing and commenting among groups can tedious, after all these formats are not formal essays. Being rather new to a hobby for instance, a new member may ponder what’s going downto the LGS and get a new BCG and a couple boxes of BTHP‘s. So how did the acronym make its way into everyday writings?

When did acronyms POTUS, FLOTUS OR SCOTUS become a thing? Was it to save type space on the printed newsprint or interoffice memoranda or was the intention merely to be more ”hip” and current?

Pop quiz; Which came first:
S-O-S … - - - … Morse code,
S * * * A Shingle,
Same Old S***
or
the SOS scouring pad

So in the name of ”progress” being made in the education system which is allowed to be managed by morons (via remote learnings), grade school spelling is not a prerequisite, and then just try understanding some the spoken word of the students they push through the system.
bc da worl wud b btr wmo acnymz ( : P

The only thing worse than an incomprehensible word salad coming from the establishment is an unnecessary acronym laden diatribe between angry social media dependent young folks. Maybe 20,000 years from now anthropologists will find fossils of hunched over (insert acronym) with a chin fused into the breast bone and massive thumbs.
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So sad .............. but so true!!!
 
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