Abbreviation help

portscanner wrote:

Durb wrote:

RoyB wrote:
Here is pretty good listing. I for one don't do the acromyns all that much. Too open for different meanings...

There seemed to be a hugh effort back in the beginning to save space when discussing things so these short words were invented down the road...

Here is a pretty good listing...
acronyms

Roy Ken

Thanks all. I printed this list for future reference (FFR). My Granddaughter (11) replied to me in a text IDK (I don't know). I called her and asked what it meant as I didn't know. She is now required to text her Grandpa in complete sentences with correct punctuation.

My mother texted me the other day "What Does IDK, LY & TTYL Mean?"

I replied: "I dont know, Love you and Talk To You Later"

She replied: "Fine, I will ask your sister"

:) :p

Durb wrote:

RoyB wrote:
Here is pretty good listing. I for one don't do the acromyns all that much. Too open for different meanings...

There seemed to be a hugh effort back in the beginning to save space when discussing things so these short words were invented down the road...

Here is a pretty good listing...
acronyms

Roy Ken

Thanks all. I printed this list for future reference (FFR). My Granddaughter (11) replied to me in a text IDK (I don't know). I called her and asked what it meant as I didn't know. She is now required to text her Grandpa in complete sentences with correct punctuation.

My mother texted me the other day "What Does IDK, LY & TTYL Mean?"

I replied: "I dont know, Love you and Talk To You Later"

She replied: "Fine, I will ask your sister"

2oldman wrote:

beemerphile1 wrote:

BendOrLarry wrote:
I find this ridicules! People have become so lazy. I no longer read posts from people who want help from the forum, but are too lazy to type out complete words.

How do you feel about people that can't spell ridiculous? :B

I always get a kick out of this kind of stuff.

I know a person who goes ballistic when someone uses ANY abbreviation. Like if you typed " I was camped out on BLM land the other day", she'd pull this idiotic routine making up all kinds of ridiculous phrases like "Benevolent Land Merchant?" attempting to chastise you for not spelling it out. And she will never allow herself to remember them once it's politely explained to her what it means. So, it may happen again in just the same fashion.

I once asked her about stuff like IRS. Is someone expected to write out Internal Revenue Service for you? Her answer, "No, that's an entity unto itself." Oh, I see.

You mean it really doesn't stand for Benevolent Land Merchant ?? :? :p

In Minnesota BLM means Boundarywaters Land Management

beemerphile1 wrote:

BendOrLarry wrote:
I find this ridicules! People have become so lazy. I no longer read posts from people who want help from the forum, but are too lazy to type out complete words.

How do you feel about people that can't spell ridiculous? :B

I always get a kick out of this kind of stuff.

I know a person who goes ballistic when someone uses ANY abbreviation. Like if you typed " I was camped out on BLM land the other day", she'd pull this idiotic routine making up all kinds of ridiculous phrases like "Benevolent Land Merchant?" attempting to chastise you for not spelling it out. And she will never allow herself to remember them once it's politely explained to her what it means. So, it may happen again in just the same fashion.

I once asked her about stuff like IRS. Is someone expected to write out Internal Revenue Service for you? Her answer, "No, that's an entity unto itself." Oh, I see.

vic46 wrote:

malexander wrote:
I thought DW was dishwasher.

You sleeping in the Bounder tonight? ;)

She doesn't know anything about the forums I'm on.:B

beemerphile1 wrote:

BendOrLarry wrote:
I find this ridicules! People have become so lazy. I no longer read posts from people who want help from the forum, but are too lazy to type out complete words.

How do you feel about people that can't spell ridiculous? :B

:B :B This made me laugh out loud.

vic46 wrote:

TenOC wrote:

beemerphile1 wrote:

Johno02 wrote:
...Does anyone else know why we use a qwerty keyboard, or why it was designed??

The story goes that in the old days of manual typewriters the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow down typists. Essentially the typewriter keys would jam because they couldn't keep up with a skilled typist.

Wouldn't that then lead to the abbreviation DK?

Not so much slow down the typists, but so the keys that are most used are on different sides of the typewriter and thus travel in a different path thus preventing jams. The reason the keys on a telephone are different from the keys on an adding machine (computer now) was to slow down the accounts that use the adding machine all day long. The old telephone switching gear could not respond as fast as the accountants could dial.

I have a CA (CPA) designation and I have often wondered why the phone key pad is different from a calculator or computer keyboard. Now I know and it does make sense. The change could now be made but that would likely be equivalent to treason! Nobody likes change!

I heard that the reason the number keys on a calculator are different from a telephone had something to do with the fact that telephones advancing from rotary dial phones and the numbers, and therefore letters went a certain way around the phone.

Calculators were developed advancing from adding machines and the numbers on them were laid out a different way.

That is just what I heard. Don't know if it is true.

TenOC wrote:

beemerphile1 wrote:

Johno02 wrote:
...Does anyone else know why we use a qwerty keyboard, or why it was designed??

The story goes that in the old days of manual typewriters the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow down typists. Essentially the typewriter keys would jam because they couldn't keep up with a skilled typist.

Wouldn't that then lead to the abbreviation DK?

Not so much slow down the typists, but so the keys that are most used are on different sides of the typewriter and thus travel in a different path thus preventing jams. The reason the keys on a telephone are different from the keys on an adding machine (computer now) was to slow down the accounts that use the adding machine all day long. The old telephone switching gear could not respond as fast as the accountants could dial.

I have a CA (CPA) designation and I have often wondered why the phone key pad is different from a calculator or computer keyboard. Now I know and it does make sense. The change could now be made but that would likely be equivalent to treason! Nobody likes change!

beemerphile1 wrote:

Johno02 wrote:
...Does anyone else know why we use a qwerty keyboard, or why it was designed??

The story goes that in the old days of manual typewriters the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow down typists. Essentially the typewriter keys would jam because they couldn't keep up with a skilled typist.

Wouldn't that then lead to the abbreviation DK?

Not so much slow down the typists, but so the keys that are most used are on different sides of the typewriter and thus travel in a different path thus preventing jams. The reason the keys on a telephone are different from the keys on an adding machine (computer now) was to slow down the accounts that use the adding machine all day long. The old telephone switching gear could not respond as fast as the accountants could dial.

BendOrLarry wrote:
I find this ridicules! People have become so lazy. I no longer read posts from people who want help from the forum, but are too lazy to type out complete words.

How do you feel about people that can't spell ridiculous? :B