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UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« on: September 28, 2017, 09:58:05 PM »
More and more we are using Acronyms.
However, the need for MORE is very dubious.
Some are useful, others funny.

Büt  many are are only a CWOT.
You know what that means  - Right?

here are a few you night not know.

AFK           away from keyboard
AFAIK    as far as I know
ASOP    assistant system operator

BAK         back at the keyboard
BEG         big evil grin
BRH         be right here

C&G            chuckle and grin
CMIIW    correct me if I’m wrong
CWOT    complete waste of time

DIIK            darn if i know
DIKU    do I know you?
DMMGH    don’t make me get hostile

These are from a list of 500 Acronyms.

YCGI      - You Can Google It.   :)
 

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Re: UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2017, 10:01:05 PM »
TL;DR
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2017, 11:43:02 PM »
Sorry to pee on the picnic, but aren't most of these initialisms rather than acronyms? You can pronounce an acronym as a word, e.g. ASCII you say "asky". So NATO is an acronym but FBI is not.

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Re: UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2017, 11:49:32 PM »
TL;FR is "Too long; didn't read."

How do you SAY  PCMCIA?


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Re: UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2017, 12:15:56 AM »
How do you SAY  PCMCIA?

Pee see em see eye eh. Thus not an acronym.

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Re: UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2017, 12:29:50 AM »
Some of them aren't even really recent. ASOP isn't something likely to be used nowadays since it relates to BBS message board sys ops, for example. And many of them are "defined" by some arbitrary website (probably to make fun of how many shorthands there are) but are pretty much never used. DMMGH for example.
I was trying to dereference Null Pointers before it was cool.

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Re: UTMA - Using Too Many Acronyms
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2017, 12:50:38 AM »
ASOP isn't something likely to be used nowadays
I thought that was a fable