A New Acronym?
A New Acronym?
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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?
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TTFN= ta-ta for now?
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It was good enough for Tigger...
TTFN
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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:
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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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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there is a very large variety of those...
Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France
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http://www.nhyrvana.com/help.html
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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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TTFN
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TTFN
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I second you about that, hehe
Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer Consultant
France
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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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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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I found it really hard to reprimand him...
I guess a full sentence would be rather unacceptable...
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I support JMW wholeheartedly. By the way I hope those guys in white coats will treat you well.
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TheTick's tongue, I hope, was firmly in cheek.
That would be more like a "post-acronym" or "retronym"
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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)
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The other day I came across a new, to me, acronym in a book on mathematics for chemical engineers:
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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
These would never go out on "official" business. As with all writing, one should consider one's audience.
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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.
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