People are totally just lazy most of the time when they don't define acronyms.
(Yes, I am possibly a little biased.)
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Dana - Mar 20, 2012 6:10:36 pm PDT #19706 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
amych - Mar 20, 2012 6:15:28 pm PDT #19707 of 25501
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
People are totally just lazy most of the time when they don't define acronyms.
QFT
Steph L. - Mar 20, 2012 6:33:08 pm PDT #19708 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
LOL
SuziQ - Mar 20, 2012 6:53:21 pm PDT #19709 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
FTW
javachik - Mar 20, 2012 6:54:26 pm PDT #19710 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.
Which everyone knows means: "FUT THE WHUCK!"
meara - Mar 20, 2012 6:56:11 pm PDT #19711 of 25501
...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)
SuziQ - Mar 20, 2012 6:59:06 pm PDT #19712 of 25501
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
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.
Strix - Mar 20, 2012 7:27:51 pm PDT #19713 of 25501
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
My dad taught me FUBAR and SNAFU when I was about 12. He considered it valuable life knowledge...and he was right.
NoiseDesign - Mar 20, 2012 7:28:35 pm PDT #19714 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
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.
Vortex - Mar 20, 2012 7:47:57 pm PDT #19715 of 25501
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I am constantly saying "Sorry, I'm new to [job], what does X mean?"