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I think some of the acronyms have reached the point where spelling them out doesn't help anyone.
This is very true. But trying to figure out the balance between "Everyone knows what that means" and "Let's just assume everyone knows what that means and no one on the team wants to ask and possibly expose their ignorance" is frustrating.
People are totally just lazy most of the time when they don't define acronyms.
(Yes, I am possibly a little biased.)
People are totally just lazy most of the time when they don't define acronyms.
QFT
LOL
FTW
Which everyone knows means: "FUT THE WHUCK!"
...I don't know what QFT means!
I did encounter this during the test after last week's training (which I found out I passed! At the highest level!) Medical abbreviations are terrible--I had one "patient chart" that had a history of PKD, which I know as polycystic kidney disease--but the abbreviation medical dictionary had a diferent first meaning (though mine was second)
I was thinking of you, javachik, when I wrote that.
Back when KCD was in the Navy, I thought I had learned how to speak the alphabet, but I swear, there are more and more acronyms now just in everyday life.
My dad taught me FUBAR and SNAFU when I was about 12. He considered it valuable life knowledge...and he was right.
When I got hired by Imagineering, one of the first things I was handed was a huge document, I'm pretty sure at least 30 pages, that was nothing but definitions of all the acronyms that division used. TDL is Tokyo Disney Land, DCA is Disney California Adventure, DLR is Disneyland Resort, LCU is the Level Control Unit, and on and on.