Who Can Use the Most Acronyms in a Sentence?
Who Can Use the Most Acronyms in a Sentence?
(OP)
I have always thought acronyms are an indication of American laziness (OK, maybe other countries use a lot of them too). I thought it would be fun to see who can use the most acronyms in one coherent sentence. I'll start:
FYI -- the PE will review that RFI ASAP.
FYI -- the PE will review that RFI ASAP.
DaveAtkins





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As a side note my the Canadian Governement has a training exercise where every participant receives a Nerf Football upon commencement of the training. The purpose of the football - to pelt any individual using an acronym while on the course. I would have been punch drunk by the end of the above email.
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"How's that FDA GMP SOP coming? You know we have to submit it to CCB by COB Friday, or we'll have to delay the DOPs too. On the lighter side we got approval for our IDE."
FDA- Food & Drug Amdinistration
GMP- Good Manufacturing Practices
SOP- Standard Operating Proceedure
CCB- Change Control Board
COB- Close of Business
DOP- Departmental Operating Procedure
IDE- Investigational Device Exemption
Ray Reynolds
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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The editor asked for feedback so I lambasted him via e-mail for the misuse of acronyms and went so far as to call the authors of these articles inane for not giving us novices a little break and ignoring this huge potential market. The editor responded to me but was offended by my use of "inane." He said, "inane? Please." So I apologized and commented that I wonder if there really is a place for the word inane in polite engish. The editor's main defense was that the mag is intended for high end cutting edge tekkies (my word not his). Sorry but POOR excuse. Even Advanced Materials and Processes and correct me if I am wrong but also Scientific American mag's usually give you a heads-up on initial use of acronyms in an article.
Does this sound like venting? I hope so!!!
At our workplace sometimes an NMR will result in a PMO but subsequently could require a DCR which might lead to a DCN and of course the DER and FAA will need to verify the veracity of the change(s).
NMR non-conforming material report
PMO protoype modification order
DCR design change request
DCN design change notice
DER designated engineering representative
FAA fededral areonautics admininstration
The really bad part is that I am as guilty as the next guy. Why say, "liquid nitrogen" when you can say, "LN2" and get this quizzical looks?
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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PDA = personal digital assistant. My PDA is a pocket PC(personal computer).
happy acronyming...
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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I like your examples. Your use of NMR is a perfect example - in the materials world, it also means Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. So if you don't identify it, how the f@#$%& is someone supposed to know what it is?
Regards,
Cory
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It's not fundamentally different than when secretaries actually had to learn and use Gregg shorthand. It's also not that different from Cockney rhyming slang.
Acronyms are efficient for people that know the context and it increases the cost of entry for the unwashed masses.
The good news is that we can communicate (most of the time) with outside people.
TTFN
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The CFO needs the ROI on the PLI expenditures to calculate the EBITDA for the COO and CEO executive YER.
In case you didn't know.
EBITDA (earnings before interest and taxes, depretiation added). One of my favorites!
ROI (Return on investment)
PLI (Product liability insurance)
YER (Year end report)
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"www" for "World Wide Web"
As the late, great Douglas Adams ("Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" etc) once said: "It's the only acronym in common usage which actually takes longer to pronounce than the full phrase."
("www" = 9 syllables; "World Wide Web" = 3 syllables.)
His own acronym for "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" or H2G2 is a masterpiece of brevity in comparison, and lives on today in the BBC-run web site for which he was a major inspiration:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/
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For the "outsiders"s, that's Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Ray Reynolds
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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So you figured that out too?
("www" = 9 syllables; "World Wide Web" = 3 syllables.)
It actually kinda chaps my hide that almost everybody just continues to blabber-out the full 9 sylables (especially on TV = television)instead of why don't they just simply SAY it and get it over with quickly! But then of course some uninitiated simpleton like myself living under rock would type out the words in the web Address line and get nowhere.
Jesus is THE life,
Leonard
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http://members.aol.com/carleyware/library/acronyms.htm
Here is a start (18 pages) but it misses some of the newer Quality acronyms such as PPAP, FMEA, APQP or MSA nor does it include the business acronyms such as SOP, SOB, ECR, ECN etc ...
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"AIR secondary air injection"
Great acronym...
Ray Reynolds
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
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A typical day in the life of a Mich.Tech. Student:
Wake up in DHH, Go to the MUB for breakfast. Meet some classmates in the MY building liberary. First class is in the ME_EM, second in the EERC. Now back to the MUB for lunch and a game of bridge. Over to PChem in the ChemMet. off to the SDC for PE. Sprained ankle? Go to the PVH. Make it back in time for Thermo. in the MY again. Down to the SEM-TEM labs for a few hours. Over to DHH for dinner. After dinner time for the DOG. At 2:30am time to hike across the wild white wasteland to DHH for bed.
Key:
DHH -- Douglass Houghton Hall
MUB -- Memorial Union Building
MY -- Metallurgy/Matrerial Sciences
ME_EM -- Mechanical Engineering/Engineering Mechanics
EERC -- Electrical Energy Resources Center
SDC -- Student Development Center
PE -- Physical Education
PVH -- Portage View Hospital
SEM -- Scanning Electron Microscope
TEM -- Transmission Electron Microscope
DOG -- "home" -- the Douglas House Saloon
nick
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BNFL have a Guide to Acronyms and Abbreviations. It runs to 101 pages with approximately 40-50 entries per page.
Samples include:-
COFFIN: Construction and Factory Fatality Information
BERT: Building Emergency Response Team
and a some nice zoological items like BAT, CATS, DOG, PANDA and PAWMARK etc..
Amazingly, it still manages to miss out my favourite - TWEC - which actually refers to a Through-Wall Electrical Connector, but which I think of as a derogatory word describing someone who uses acronyms excessively,
Regards,
Bob
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