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ACRONYMS, the verb form...

ACRONYMS, the verb form...

ACRONYMS, the verb form...

(OP)
STOVAL (not VSTOL) pilots apparnetly "vif".
"Vifing" is the act of Vectoring in Flight.

Do we have any more examples of acronyms assuming all the attributes of proper words?

Harder still, perhaps, to find examples of Initialisms that have manged it I would think.

JMW
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RSVP me.

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Is K-9 (Canine) an acronym or an abreviation?

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You really TKO'd him, didn't you?

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I overheaded a nurse say, "He was MRI'd yesterday."

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"We FEA'd it yesterday."

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RE: ACRONYMS, the verb form...

IM or TM is often used as a verb.

And there's FTP and DSP used as verbs.

Since RSVP effectively means "please reply", it's sort of a verb to begin with.

There are also acronyms used as adverbs as well: ASAP, PDQ, which is OK, since they are adverbial phrases.

TTFN

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jmw - I'm curious what STOVAL stands for, and the etymology of that acronym.  

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Ah, STOVAL or STOVL? you might have me... short take off and vertical landing. That's one trouble with acronyms, i probably gave the phonetic spelling .... and that takes us in deeper still; words evolving from acronyms where the spelling is more conventional?
So OK, I made a mistake and am trying to bluff my way out.

JMW
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jmw
Wouldn't STOVAL and STOVL be somewhat different?  I read STOVAL as "Short Take Off Vertical and Landing" (verifies that it can land, but not nessesarily "short", wheras STOVL would be "Short Take Off Vertical Landing".

Don't mind me; sometimes, I just have to take a phrase literally.

jlg
Too many TLAs for comfort.

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Short Takeoff and Landing is STOL.  VSTOL is Very STOL.  I'm not familiar with STOVL.

I'm not sure I'd want to be in an aircraft that requires Short Take Off, but does a Vertical Landing.  Ouch.

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Learn something every day.  Apparently the Harrier, and the J-35 are operational declared STOVL since they require a short Takeoff Roll due to fuel and armament, but since they are much lighter at the end of flight, can perform a Vertical Landing.

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(OP)
VSTOL is Vetical/short take-off and landing... you can do both taking off or landing.

CC is right; full load the Harrier cannot take off vertically. Enter the ski jump ramp on the flight deck and you can up the payload still further.

JMW
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We FFT signals. FFT is Fast Fourier Transform.

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Quite often used in the yahoo chat rooms is PMing (they rather say pming)

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OK I'll bite, what is pming?

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Private Messaging. When you are in a chat room and want to discuss with somebody one to one then you have to double click on their screen name (and before that you should ask permission for pming in the chat room)

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(Subtle) cultural differences {even at this board} can create outstanding confusion.  To me, PMing applied to equipment is ‘preventive maintenance’ing.
  

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HALO presumably leads to the verb Haloing. Has anyone come across this?

HALO is High altitude, low opening; reference to parachuting. During the Falklands war the replacement for Colonel "H" of the British Parachute regiment was deployed to his unit from England by HALO.
Incidently, i am curious as to whether this constitutes a record for the longest military deployment by parachute. I assume he was staged down to the Falklands i.e. not one long flight, and since it was a replacement and not an airborne assault, I would guess not, that honour must still be with the 509th PIB for the North African campaign in WWII.

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Hey, in another forum, I just used the acro-verb, RF'd to indicate that I had Red Flagged an inappropriate post.  Does this count??

rmw

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Yep, by all means. You should be RSd now

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I'm sure that you're all aware that DC DNFd at Bahrain 3 weeks ago.

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