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buddiiee

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Would it be possible to do away with acronyms on this board? lol. I've taught myself in my job that is acronym intensive to not use them whatsoever when typing because of the massive amount of confusion they ALWAYS create; especially if another group has the same acronym but different meaning. Like for me, everyone keeps calling everyone British Aerospace Engineering (bae) on the internet, and I'm SOO confused. Is there an acronym explanation guide on here by chance? I can't find any.

I mean honestly, I've never seen the reference to the daughter on The Family Guy owning soo many products on here; "Meg's"? Really? What is a "Megs"? lol.
 
For acronyms, I ask what the acronym stands for or ask Google



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Just type it in Google like the rest of us until you catch on. Jeez, guys been here a week and he wants the whole site to cater to him. Lol jk
 
buddiiee said:
Would it be possible to do away with acronyms on this board? lol.
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You think acronyms on this forum are bad try texting with teenagers... :laughing:


Just to note, your frustration comes up once in a while in the forum of a similar post but here's the facts Jack, to quote Bill Murray in the movie Stripes,


From my own observations of typing on the Internet since 1994 and on forum since 2002, people don't like to type out each and very word so it's the lazy nature in people that results in people typing out acronyms.

Nothing is going to change this.

Me? If you read enough of my posts you'll see I rarely use acronyms and when I do I often also share what they mean. I'm a speed typist so it doesn't take me but a few seconds to think out and then type out the actual full length words. I also don't like to frustrate newbies and people new to our forum. (these two groups can be different, a newbie to detailing doesn't mean they are a newbie to forums).


buddiiee said:
Is there an acronym explanation guide on here by chance? I can't find any.
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Typing in Acronyms on AutogeekOnline into Google gave me the below link,


Acronyms



Hope that helps...


:)
 
Mike Phillips said:
You think acronyms on this forum are bad try texting with teenagers... :laughing:


Just to note, your frustration comes up once in a while in the forum of a similar post but here's the facts Jack, to quote Bill Murray in the movie Stripes,


From my own observations of typing on the Internet since 1994 and on forum since 2002, people don't like to type out each and very word so it's the lazy nature in people that results in people typing out acronyms.

Nothing is going to change this.

Me? If you read enough of my posts you'll see I rarely use acronyms and when I do I often also share what they mean. I'm a speed typist so it doesn't take me but a few seconds to think out and then type out the actual full length words. I also don't like to frustrate newbies and people new to our forum. (these two groups can be different, a newbie to detailing doesn't mean they are a newbie to forums).





Typing in Acronyms on AutogeekOnline into Google gave me the below link,


Acronyms



Hope that helps...


:)
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This helps a lot, thanks!
 
buddiiee said:
Would it be possible to do away with acronyms on this board? lol. I've taught myself in my job that is acronym intensive to not use them whatsoever when typing because of the massive amount of confusion they ALWAYS create; especially if another group has the same acronym but different meaning. Like for me, everyone keeps calling everyone British Aerospace Engineering (bae) on the internet, and I'm SOO confused. Is there an acronym explanation guide on here by chance? I can't find any.

I mean honestly, I've never seen the reference to the daughter on The Family Guy owning soo many products on here; "Meg's"? Really? What is a "Megs"? lol.
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Well, BAe is BAE because they changed the name of the company from British Aerospace to BAE Systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/####/British_Aerospace

Also, FedEx is FedEx because they changed the name of the company from Federal Express to FedEx (I don't really understand that one, BAe changed when they merged with another company).

Acronyms have their place, I understand Mike's reasoning and I understand your complaint, but in some instances acronyms can increase reading accuracy, comprehension and speed. I mean for instance we have a lot of Wolfgang products here with long names, and if you type the whole thing out IMO it might cause someone to misread it, when an acronym might be easier recognized. I understand this kind of cuts both ways and I can see both sides of the argument.

I have also complained that we don't have an up-to-date acronym thread on this forum. In the old days of Autopia we had one, and it worked because members had unlimited edit capablity, so the OP (oops, an acronym--Original Poster) could go back and update his first post to keep it up to day. We can't do that here because we have a short edit window, which avoids a lot of problems with unlimited edit (like members getting tee'd off and deleting all their posts, which can cause a lot of threads to not make sense anymore)

Of course, to (forum-friendly) quote Eddie Murphy from Best Defense: "What the heck is a WAM??"

Oh, and "Meg's" is Meguiar's.
 
I get it. I work in nuclear. If you think these acronyms are bad, they don't hold a candle to what I deal with day to day! LOL.

That acronym list is awesome, btw. Extremely helpful.

I really think that people type Meg's because they have difficulty spelling Meguiar's!
 
People in the marketing and advertising world use buzzwords and acronyms for everything and it drives me nuts. I have always felt it's partially lazy and partially to make the user feel as if they are more "in the know" on the inside than everyone else. Either way, it drives me insane and I always try to avoid it. Assuming everyone reading your posts or listening to you talk knows what you're talking about is a terrible assumption that you should never make. There are far too many n00bs joining this forum every day, and even for myself who has been lurking here for a while, I still find it infuriating when people casually use obscure industry product names as acronyms like we all know what they are talking about.

In the communications world where I spend my 9-5, you refer to the full name once when you start to talk about the item, then can refer to the acronym every time after that, kinda like the ™ or © symbols in an article or ad.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Well, BAe is BAE because they changed the name of the company from British Aerospace to BAE Systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/####/British_Aerospace

Also, FedEx is FedEx because they changed the name of the company from Federal Express to FedEx (I don't really understand that one, BAe changed when they merged with another company).

Acronyms have their place, I understand Mike's reasoning and I understand your complaint, but in some instances acronyms can increase reading accuracy, comprehension and speed. I mean for instance we have a lot of Wolfgang products here with long names, and if you type the whole thing out IMO it might cause someone to misread it, when an acronym might be easier recognized. I understand this kind of cuts both ways and I can see both sides of the argument.

I have also complained that we don't have an up-to-date acronym thread on this forum. In the old days of Autopia we had one, and it worked because members had unlimited edit capablity, so the OP (oops, an acronym--Original Poster) could go back and update his first post to keep it up to day. We can't do that here because we have a short edit window, which avoids a lot of problems with unlimited edit (like members getting tee'd off and deleting all their posts, which can cause a lot of threads to not make sense anymore)

Of course, to (forum-friendly) quote Eddie Murphy from Best Defense: "What the heck is a WAM??"

Oh, and "Meg's" is Meguiar's.
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Acronyms never have a place lol. They only have their place to people that can't type, or spell. Period (laughing out loud lol). I've never had a problem typing out what I feel entirely. Honestly, even the average typist only saves a second or less by converting a word or two to acronyms. Going off of that, the only thing left they can do is confuse, costing MORE time for every reader of the post.
So only the original poster gets to save a few seconds, but now thousands of readers have to spend more time translating. I'd never do that to someone. I'm too considerate lol.
 
buddiiee said:


Acronyms never have a place lol. They only have their place to people that can't type, or spell. Period (laughing out loud lol). I've never had a problem typing out what I feel entirely. Honestly, even the average typist only saves a second or less by converting a word or two to acronyms. Going off of that, the only thing left they can do is confuse, costing MORE time for every reader of the post.
So only the original poster gets to save a few seconds, but now thousands of readers have to spend more time translating. I'd never do that to someone. I'm too considerate lol.
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I disagree, depending on the topic of discussion acronyms are very helpful and save a lot of time and frustration . I am sure you have used common acronyms in typing or verbal communication. Imagine writing a research paper on deoxyribonucleic acid, who the heck wants to write that out a billion times, you can use thee letters instead. I would be very,very, very impressed if you have used the full verbose wording/typing of the following common acronyms in conversation ( people would probably look at you funny too if you said the real wording instead of the acronym)

computerized axial tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
Human immunodeficiency virus
acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

I can say that abbreviations have saved me countless pages or extra typing, frustration and stress in my grad courses. I would go mad having to spell out and say everything in its entirety!

TBH I <3 acronyms :)
 
I agree with the poster earlier that said the first time used it should include the full name. I would go further and say the first time used on a thread page it should have the full name with it.

It would be nice to have a standard everyone adhered to.
 
I think the OP should get used to acronyms PDQ (ASAP) and go get some UC and UP to get rid of his RIDS. Follow up with WGDGPS.

Oh, and a good QD can be made from ONR. :laughing::laughing::laughing:

Just messin' with you, bud. :props:
 
ducksfan said:
I agree with the poster earlier that said the first time used it should include the full name. I would go further and say the first time used on a thread page it should have the full name with it.

It would be nice to have a standard everyone adhered to.
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This is what I try to do even with my own personal write ups on various projects I do.

It maks it easy to follow up and doesn't create confusion if you use the wrong one.
 
The journalist rule for acronyms is to write the full name first in the the text, and the acronym in between parenthesis, like Ultima Paint Guard Plus (UPGP). Since it is already stated in the beginning, you can refer to it later as an acronym.
 
RPM_BR said:
The journalist rule for acronyms is to write the full name first in the the text, and the acronym in between parenthesis, like Ultima Paint Guard Plus (UPGP). Since it is already stated in the beginning, you can refer to it later as an acronym.
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So like OMYSFYSFYBMMHM would be proceeded by "Oh Micky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, HEY MICKY! ??
 
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