TLA Acronyms
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
My daughters soccer club has a BYO own alcohol BBQ every year. Christian I have several lifelong friends that are New Yorkers but I have always gravitated toward the weirdo's. - Richard Stringer
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
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FTP protocol, SMTP protocol... any internet protocol... -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
The rules of language are a dying art. Nearly any small town newspaper, restaurant menu or specials board or employee made sign will contain one if not multiple breaking of the rules of the english language and bad mis-spellings. Luckily most who are reading them can't tell the difference anyway so no harm no foul. Many commercial and otherwise professional web sites contain language mistakes all over them these days. I think few people really care any more.
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
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The rules of language are a dying art. Nearly any small town newspaper, restaurant menu or specials board or employee made sign will contain one if not multiple breaking of the rules of the english language and bad mis-spellings. Luckily most who are reading them can't tell the difference anyway so no harm no foul. Many commercial and otherwise professional web sites contain language mistakes all over them these days. I think few people really care any more.
My local major supermarket has illiterate sign writers. We've had speshal offers, new astralean wines and custurd by the gallon. :doh: ** I had to look up illiterate to check I was spelling it correctly... since Google starting using answers.com for definitions its define: searches hardly turn up any results. Illiterate wasn't found, I had to use a normal web search. **
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
I see a LOT... ATV Vehicle UAV Air craft (unmanned aerial vehicle -- and I was worried it was just a tank shot from a gun *whew*) Those are just from today.... You will find one in at least every paper generated by someone around here, even me when I get tired... :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
"ABS brakes" (ABS == anti-lock brake system) --Mike-- LINKS~! Ericahist | 1ClickPicGrabber | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ Strange things are afoot at the U+004B U+20DD
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Indivara wrote: Get Parent Process PID In this case, it means "get the process ID of the parent process" but should be written as: "Get Parent Process's PID". -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
COM Component
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COM Component
Gerald Schwab wrote: COM Component I think that one's okay. It's a compoment based on the component object model. Nish :-)
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"ABS brakes" (ABS == anti-lock brake system) --Mike-- LINKS~! Ericahist | 1ClickPicGrabber | CP SearchBar v2.0.2 | C++ Forum FAQ Strange things are afoot at the U+004B U+20DD
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
Many times I came accross the terms ASP Page or a JSP Page. Not just people using them but some texts on those technologies also used the term. Regards,
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I see a LOT... ATV Vehicle UAV Air craft (unmanned aerial vehicle -- and I was worried it was just a tank shot from a gun *whew*) Those are just from today.... You will find one in at least every paper generated by someone around here, even me when I get tired... :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I think the problem with those is one of intended-readership. If it is used in a CNN article for the general public then tagging on vehicle or aircraft is a good thing as not everyone knows what a UAV or ATV is. "A UAV crashed yesterday in Iraq" doesn't mean a whole lot to Joe Public while "A UAV aircraft..." clarifies it a bit. They could however do "A UAV (Anmanned Aerial Vehicle)..." which is probably more correct but takes up space in their articles and might be too technical still. And is it "An UAV" or "A UAV"? I always forget the rule for acronyms. "An UAV" when said out loud sounds strange. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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Many times I came accross the terms ASP Page or a JSP Page. Not just people using them but some texts on those technologies also used the term. Regards,
Agni.Seems valid to me. How else do you differentiate between ASP concepts? e.g. An ASP page vs. an ASP component? regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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I noticed a sign at the gas station a few days ago: "ATM Machine Inside" Makes me wonder, when does an acronym like "Automatic Teller Machine" devolve into something that then requires taking the third letter in the acronym and reproducing it as the full word next to the acronym. For example, I occasionally hear neophites talk about the "www web". Anyone have any other examples? Marc MyXaml Advanced Unit Testing YAPO
PIN number. Always annoys me. :-D
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Seems valid to me. How else do you differentiate between ASP concepts? e.g. An ASP page vs. an ASP component? regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
Paul Watson wrote: An ASP page vs. an ASP component Active Server Page or an Active Server Page Component :-) However,It is very inconvenient to keep on saying Active Server Page or an Active Server Page Component hence the contractions ASP Page/Component. What I am saying is that some acronyms contain (eg ASP has a page in it but still we add page which is redundant) all the information but in daily use has added a bit of redundancy Regards,
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FTP protocol, SMTP protocol... any internet protocol... -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
Luis Alonso Ramos wrote: any internet protocol You must mean IP Protocol, surely? ;P
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Gerald Schwab wrote: COM Component I think that one's okay. It's a compoment based on the component object model. Nish :-)
For inhouse docs, I prefer COMponent for that very reason
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