Abbreviations I don't like.

[Q Classic]

Xian, or X-ian, or its permutations, which, apparently in some circles, means "Christian".

I get it. But I don't like it.

Because when I see "Xian", I get all excited and ****, thinking they're going to talk about some ancient Chinese dynasty. And then X-ian makes it look all alien, so we'll be talking about invaders from deep space.

But then they rant about Jesus, and I lose interest, 'cause that ****'s boring.

[SlowwHand]

FBI
CIA
ATF
IRS
NAFTA

[Patroklos]

I hate abbreviations inside abbreviations, like VLA.

VLA= Vertically Launched ASROC

ASROC = Anti-Submarine Rocket.

In a world already ripe with abbreviations, that just makes it worse.

I also don't like abbreviations that people still feel the need to say anyways, like ATM machine.

[Wezil]

IOU

DUI

AIDS

[SlowwHand]

and let's not forget BYOB.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
and let's not forget BYOB.

You're right. That has to be one of the worst.

[germanos]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
FBI
CIA
ATF
IRS
NAFTA

Is that all? Are you turning soft?
No UN?
No EU?
No USA? (although I guess that goes together with FBI, CIA and IRS )

[SlowwHand]

I didn't want to be a hog, so I left out U.N.

[Spec]

BAR-B-Q

Its "Barbe au cul" sacrement!

But no-one says that....not even french people...

Spec.

[Aeson]

Xmas!

[Patroklos]

LOL, BRB, IMO, FYI, AFAIK, IIRC, etc.

[Aeson]

LOL

[germanos]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
I didn't want to be a hog, so I left out U.N.

You are turning soft, but i love you for it .

[Cort Haus]

FWIW, and FYI, ISTR that AFAIK they save time IMO. Anyway IIRC I'll BRB. LOL.

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Patroklos
I hate abbreviations inside abbreviations, like VLA.

VLA= Vertically Launched ASROC

ASROC = Anti-Submarine Rocket.

Yay! Nested abbreviations. Now we just need recursive, and pointers to TIA*s and we're away.

* Three Initialled Acronyms

[Wezil]

WTF?

[Riesstiu IV]

OMGWFTBBQ

[Spec]

ROFLMFAO

[Kropotkin]

I have some sort of allergy to the abbrevations used by the United States Armed Forces. Especially the really long ones. For some reason I don't have the same problem with the abbreviations used by for example the soviet union or nazi germany. I guess there's something with the english language that makes for corny abbreviations.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Yay! Nested abbreviations. Now we just need recursive, (...)

I hate recursive abbreviations (e.g. GNU, PHP).

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Cort Haus


Yay! Nested abbreviations. Now we just need recursive, and pointers to TIA*s and we're away.

* Three Initialled Acronyms

The TTP Project

[b etor]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
and let's not forget BYOB.

bring your own bible!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In the State Department, the more important an office is, the fewer letters in its abbreviation; the most important offices of all are one letter. And State Dept. employees, like all bureaucrats, are addicted to abbreviation. As a result, someone will mention, for example, a conversation they had with Deputy Secretary Negroponte, in which he mentioned that Secretary Rice was directing the Congressional liaison office to promote a new legislative agenda for the Department, but only after department lawyers had cleared on it. The result is something like:

I was talking with D last week, and he said S is ready to move her agenda out of H, once L signs on.

People -- pasty-faced people of both sexes in nondescript dark blue suits -- really talk that way here! It's just so, so wrong.

[Skanky Burns]

I love acronyms! (when I'm in the know, anyway)

[Cort Haus]

Originally posted by Aeson
The TTP Project

[Krill]

WTFp

[Dis]

what is afaik?

the hard part is remembering all these. If it's not something that us used very often, the full form should be written out.

[b etor]

afaik, afaik = as far as i know

[Skanky Burns]

IIRC, that's right.

[Nikolai]

IIUC, SB is at fault.