G, Dug, u and mi grandfathr wud hav got along grate.

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Originally posted by Doug Spaulding:

patrask is correct! I'm in the military and I can write entire emails just using acronyms!

CO,

FYI.

V/R,

PN2 S.

I'm sure you can, Doug - but those look like abbreviations to me!

Alas, forfeit Ewon

Good article in the Bangalore Times:
"It's like, awesone!"
The vocabulary of youngsters is diminishing, says a recent study.

If you look it up on-line, beware, though, as you'll get lots of "pop-ups".

By the way, whatever happened to the poster who started this thread?

And - what was the question?

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Originally posted by Mr. Dark:
The over-use of acronyms can lead to weakened communications. I remember sitting in a roomful of engineers and programmers who were tossing acronyms around the room in a very casual manner. I was new and began asking what the acronyms meant. In many, many cases, no one knew. The acronyms had lost much of their meaning as they had become unfamiliar because the full term had not been used in a long time.

You are correct, sir! Just last week my supervisor told me that a particular form submitted to us had to be signed by the unit's OSO. Now, not having heard that acronym before I asked what OSO stood for. He couldn't tell me!

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Originally posted by philnic:
I'm sure you can, Doug - but those look like abbreviations to me!

Well, if you're going to be technical about it!

Actually CO, FYI and V/R are acronyms.

Dougster, I'm afraid Philnic is right, as an acronym is actually a word formed by initals; e.g. "scuba" or "radar".

Again, though, whatever happened to the poor lad with the F451 assignment???

Braling II

Poor lad with the F451 assignment? Perhaps Phil Knox up there may have a post with a double meaning indication: Forfeit Ewon. [451]. Maybe the lad (or a las) just gave up.

10-04
10-05
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etc.

See EMS codes on Google

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Originally posted by Braling II:
Dougster, I'm afraid Philnic is right, as an acronym is actually a word formed by initals; e.g. "scuba" or "radar".

You know, I believe you may be mostly right, but curiousity sent me to the dictionary which tells me that a proper definition for the word is:

"An identifier formed from some of the letters (often the initials) of a phrase and used as an abbreviation."

I believe this is the sense in which the military utilizes the term, hence my understanding of it.

But I do see your point, and believe me, the military also utilizes many grammatically incorrect phraseologies. I'm always pointing them out to supervisors to their annoyance.

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Originally posted by dandelion:
G, Dug, u and mi grandfathr wud hav got along grate.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

That's absolutely amazing, Doug! I didn't miss, hesitate, or stumble over a single word. Excellent! I think you may be onto something. I wonder if an entire story would work like that.
To the drawing board!!!

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Dougster,
"...but curiousity sent me to the dictionary..."
THE dictionary?
Your definition seems to be lifted from "The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing", the only one like that I found.
Webster's Collegiate, Dictionary.com, American Heritage, Thorndike-Barnhardt, and WordNet agree with the definition I posted above.
The New York Times Everyday Reader'sDictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words (a great resource!) makes it even clearer defining an acronym as a PRONOUNCEABLE word.
A great one is "Nabisco" from "NA(tional) BIS(cuit) CO(mpany).

What was the question? We're about to go to our third page of replies to a question nobody seems to remember. Odd bunch, that Bradbury crew.

I think B-II has earned his popsicle.

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An excellent post, Mr. Dark.

Now Doug Spaulding, being an ex-military guy I would say the following:

CO Commanding Officer
FYI For Your Information
V/R I am stumped here
PN2 S This is a rank, although I am not familiar with what Naval rank this might be.

Elucidate me!