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A New Acronym?
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A New Acronym?

A New Acronym?

(OP)
Recently, I have received e-mails where the sender uses "ty" as an abbreviation for "thank you", at the end of the e-mail.  Anyone else seeing this?

DaveAtkins

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No, I haven't seen this but "tx" which is the older one. So now its time that we get ready to expect "tz". What next will come after that, I fail to see. Perhaps "txx", "txy"...."tzz" if we ask Bill Gates. :-(

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I've see thx also

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I've seen TY a lot actually.  One that gets me is:

TTFN= ta-ta for now?

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YNOT?

It was good enough for Tigger...

TTFN

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"Tigger Rules"

TTFN

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Anything gets old when repeated ad nauseum.
Whoops, looks like I'm in a glass house....

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RE: A New Acronym?

If my version of MS Office is anything to go by, Bill Gates signs off his correspondence "Your's truly"! So perhaps it should be "yt" not "ty".

M

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Dr Michael F Platten

RE: A New Acronym?

As someone pointed out in another thread, these are initialisms, not acronyms. Irritating, none the less.

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RE: A New Acronym?

Don't you just love the military! and when the military and pipeline engineers get together....
Heavy Crudes transported by pipeline often have "snot" added to reduce the pipe friction. The correct name now escapes me but it is a complex polymer added into the crude which lines the pipe and reduces friction. Now I have it, "Drag Reducer."

Anyway, an article found on one of the military web sites quotes:

Quote:

Between 1980 and 1985, a representative of Imperial Oil made a presentation to
Subcommittee J (aviation fuels) of ASTM Committee D2 concerning a contaminant found
in the Alberta Products Pipeline (APPL). [1]* The contaminant had a high viscosity and was
eventually called “APPL jelly.” This is generally recognized as the first use of the term.
and of course it is now referred to within the report simply as apple jelly. No quotes, no capitals, no emphasis at all.

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Hi electripete.

I got one the other day VBR
= Very Best Regards
Personally I think the abreviations are dumb and if someone wishes to send you thanks or very best regards or whatever, they should make the effort and do it verbatin.
'Bye for now..............

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To "MikeyP":

That should be "Yours truly" - without an apostrophe.

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wtf (what the f***?), wth (what the hell?), jk (just kidding), yw (you're welcome), thx or ty (thank you), btw (by the way)...

there is a very large variety of those...

Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France

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For years I've seen "LOL" appended to email messages from various friends, and I had no clue as to its meaning.  When (within the last year) I saw it used on FOX television to mean "laugh out loud," it made some sense, but most of the messages to which I've seen it appended weren't intended to be funny and had nothing to do with laughter.

Is there another meaning to the "LOL" abbreviation?  Or have my friends been using it because everybody does, and they don't really know what it means either?

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Could be Lot's of Love?

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LOL is often used in the ironic sense

TTFN

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Of course, in the novel "House of God,"  it meant little old lady.

TTFN

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a, the pitfalls of modern internet lingua. i have seen ty quite often, actually, and afaik ;) it is in fact supposed to mean thank you. for all of you who do not frequent chatrooms quite as regularly, i have this link to offer for information. it has an explanation on most of the often used acronyms as well as some not as often used ones. on that i find really remarkable is this one:
HLOLARAWCHAWMP

happy searching ;)

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LOL - Laugh Out Loud, Lots Of Luck, Lots Of Laughs, Lots Of Love

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I hate the fact that we still can't edit our posts... I wouldn't feel quite as stupid for forgetting to actually post the link were I able to add it now. Nonetheless, here it is:

http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/

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Quote:

I hate the fact that we still can't edit our posts... I wouldn't feel quite as stupid for forgetting to actually post the link were I able to add it now.

I second you about that, hehe

Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France

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Thanks for the "LOL" definitions.  Those provided make a whole lot more sense to me now.

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There is an acronym that is being used on one particular area that I somewhat frequent online. (I started the chatroom thing several years ago just to learn to type, and it worked eventually).

I've seen, and I'm sure many of you have seen, AFK being used before. This is common for Away From Keyboard. I started using one which is a derivative of this, AFW which is for Away From Window (At your keyboard, but another program on top of the discussion window, etc). I was under the impression that this was, or should have been, a common acronym, but it doesn't show up in the instances I've looked for it. Anyway, just another tidbit to add to your Internet lexicon.

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Maybe I'm an old foggey, but i dislike these things.

It may be email and we are all told it is an informal medium But increasingly email is used for all sorts of offical exchanges such as quotes, enquiries etc and i fel that whatever the medium, the formality depends on function not medium. Every time i have relaxed, i have been bitten... mainly by lazy people who just forward my email which was for their eyes only. I am now very concious that what i email someone expecting them to extract only that which is relevent to the client, may end up being forwarded verbatum.

I also tend to be a bit offput by emails from unknowns who greet me with "Hi jon! instead of "dear sir" or "dear mr lastname" when they are introducing themselevs and want to sell me something.

Most important, email and the internet is global. That doesn't mean it is an excuse to ignore possible regional or personal conventions.

PS I also hate "texting" and the abuses that brings about. A phone is a phone. If we really wanted all these gimic we'd have had them on landlines long ago.

Anyway, must go, I see some guys in white coats with nets approaching the door. I wonder what they want?

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RE: A New Acronym?

Due to lack of any other markings one of frustrated inspectors marked a weld on the pipeline with "WTF is this?"
I found it really hard to reprimand him...
I guess a full sentence would be rather unacceptable...

Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering

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HLOLARAWCHAWMP - Hysterically Laughing Out Loud And Rolling Around While Clapping Hands And Wetting My Pants

ANFAWFOS - And Now For A Word From Our Sponser

AWGTHTGTATA - Are We Gonna Have To Go Through All This Again?

Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering

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PHFBIE is a good SLA.

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ITST thx

Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering

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Yes, there is a translation.

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I love this one too:

SNAFU - situation normal, all f***ed up

Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering

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But seriously, I had some laughs but athough I am not a "native" English speaker and Shakespeare's language is not even my second tongue, I am being haunted by the global trend to vulgarize the language and replacement of fully functional and often beautiful words with meaningless blabber.

I support JMW wholeheartedly. By the way I hope those guys in white coats will treat you well.

Putting Human Factor Back in Engineering

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Quote (TheTick):

Is the word "acronym" itself an acronym?
A Coded Rendition Of Names Yielding Meaning

TheTick's tongue, I hope, was firmly in cheek.

That would be more like a "post-acronym" or "retronym"

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In simpler times -  back before the internet - when we had to walk to school uphill both ways in the snow....

All they had to decipher on the back of the mail envelope was SWAK
(sealed with a kiss)

then us engineers came up with LWSSTKTDTS

(licked with sufficient siliva to keep the darn thing sealed)



Keep the wheels on the ground
Bob
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The other day I came across a new, to me, acronym in a book on mathematics for chemical engineers:
cis θ
meaning
cos θ + i sin θ

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I'm not crazy about the acronyms either.  I find it takes more time to type them and figure them out than to just type the words out completely.

I do appreciate emoticons in emails since they tend to clue the reader in when there are several possible meanings (some not so nice) to a statement.  Even so I tend to <grin> and <sticks out tongue> rather than or

These would never go out on "official" business.  As with all writing, one should consider one's audience.



  "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
  Small people always do that, but the really great make you
  feel that you, too, can become great."

  *Mark Twain

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The use of acronyms is getting out of hand and is now becoming 'chic' amongst management to use them willy nilly, as we say. A recent email I received, containing an attachmnent, with the simple message of FYI. I replied, Who are you calling an Idiot!

corus

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I think a lot of these make more sense in chat/games rooms where you are in real time trying to have a conversation.  I don't think many of them make much sense in an email.  

I can't think of a situtation where I've ever used LOL in an email.  For me, that's appropriate for the chat room as it is a real time expression that you found something amusing.  

Actually, in one of the online games I play, LOL is actually bound to a key, so I just hit that one key to say LOL instead of three.  In reality, I could have bound the key to say "Laughing Out Loud".  But, in the internet realm, I think we're at the point where the reader would be more confused reading the full text on the screen instead of getting the LOL on the screen and processing internally.

I do agree that formal communications, no matter what their medium, shouldn't have these kinds of things in them.  Quite frankly, it makes you look the fool if you can't tell when their use is inappropriate.

Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas

"All the world is a Spring"

All opinions expressed here are my own and not my company's.

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chic =
"Can't Have Intelligent Conversation"
when applied to upper management......

"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
-- by Albert Einstein

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