#abbreviations — Public Fediverse posts

A comment on my post describes users of this slang as lazy simpletons with a limited vocabulary. (I was having none of it.)

I see linguistic shortcuts – abbreviations and the like – more as efficiencies. They're the verbal equivalent of desire paths, which no one sees as "lazy".

But the characterization shows the social baggage that language has accumulated. It's a scapegoat for broader anxieties and prejudices.

#language #slang #abbreviations #sociolinguistics #blogging

"A Story Of [The US States To Two (2) Capital Letters] Abbreviations” [(slightly) NSFW]
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https://youtube.com/shorts/u29XFwhHtC0?si=y_NJ-RCO06alkBjG  <-- shared (slightly) NSFW video
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As spatial data professionals- indeed as data professionals generally - we have all been in similar situations, either inside or looking in… so VERY relatable!
(note that the “98 minute documentary…” “about the men - and one woman” he mentions was – so very sadly! – a fiction generated for his routine…)
#comedy #garygulman #USStates #abbreviations #designbycommittee #USPS #abbreviation #task #consensus #spatial #organisation #states #USA #CONTRACTor #data #database #consistency #humour

My interest in (1) tennis and, unrelatedly, (2) the linguistics of profanity means that just now when I saw the phrase "WTA RG F" my brain briefly decided that it meant "what the actual Roland-Garros fuck"

#swearing #tennis #WTAF #profanity #abbreviations #language #RolandGarros

31 acronyms you use all the time—what they actually stand for

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/31-acronyms-you-use-all-the-time-what-they-actually-stand-for

@rl_dane

To react on subject

I never abbreviate functions; I want to read them all so that when I read back the programming code in a month a year or 10 years it still makes sense to me without reading my remarks

#Programming #abbreviations #functions #pointers

Annoying Words I've Seen Today
Actionable, deep dives, scaling back, impactful, attitudinal, rolling back, orgs.

Other Annoying Words/phrases
Game-changer, level up, ramp up, kick off, hack (when used about everyday life i.e. cooking hack) ,elevate (hackneyed), Circle back, combo, info, typo, y'all, deets, specs, app/apps (this may be the proper word for mobile applications), pics, photos, faves, legit, adorbs, etc. There are many, many more. This is just a small sample. This is also why I generally can't tolerate more than ten minutes reading modern articles or associating with people who speak and write in this manner. It gives me a headache, sometimes literally (and yes, I do use that word in its proper sense). I fully understand why those with manual dexterity issues, etc. would write shortened words and such. But for the rest of us, there is no excuse. Yes, there are normal abbreviations, but these go well beyond that into sheer laziness. As for the corporate and sports rubbish, when did that start? Why must everything be a game-changer? When did we begin living in a video game that we started levelling up? Have we all become scuba divers that we take deep dives into everything? How did combination turn into combo, when there is only one o in it? Why must everyone, including professionals, write words such as info and photos, to say nothing of the use of emoticons, emojis, etc. in so-called business letters? Speaking of which, when did it become appropriate to call people who are not your friends or family by their first names without their permission, instead of addressing them properly i.e. "hey, Georgiana" instead of "Dear Miss Brummell" or "Dear Madam"? Then, there are those who forget to follow at least one of the rules regarding numbers in a sentence. Either you begin using numerals after ten or, as I do, after 100. "I put 2 cups on the is not proper usage. If I wrote all of my thoughts about such things, I would rival Captain Jesse in rambling and length, but suffice it to say that I am utterly disgusted by all of this modern nonsense, and even more so by bad English in general (good/well, lay/lie, me/I, double negatives, singular they, etc.) being accepted and even promoted by educators, both of native English students and of English learners!

#abbreviations #cCorporateSpeak #English #grammar #language #linguistics #netspeak #prescriptivism #textspeak #words #writing

Hello English-speaking #filmfans and cineasts in the #fediverse. I could need some #mastohelp.

Is there something like a widely accepted and known abbreviation for the expression "original version/track with (English) subtitles" in #English? (I am thinking about a similar short form, like the German #OmU for "Original mit Untertiteln").

Asking for a friend. ;) All hints are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

#cinema #filmfestival #englishlanguage #abbreviations

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#emmet #abbreviations
https://docs.emmet.io/abbreviations/syntax