Abbreviations, Abbreviations and more Abbreviations. Not everone knows their meanings.

[Stuart G]

Yes, some of us know the meanings of the abbreviations that people use at DU. (Democratic Underground) But we see new ones all the time that are hard to figure out. I saw one today (PBO), and couldn't figure that one out. I just looked that up, and pbo has to do with lead oxide, or some baseball organization in Palos Hills Illinois.. ( check out those letters, ... pbo)..

...It turns out that PBO stands for President Barack Obama. I hadn't seen that one, but there are many that people don't know. Never assume that everyone knows the meaning of whatever abbreviation you use. If you got this far, I thank you for reading this. Today is Feb. 15, 2020...(Feb. stands for February)

[Wounded Bear]

1. Blame cell phones and texting...

the proliferation of obscure abbreviations and acronyms can be disconcerting TBS.

(to be sure)

[hlthe2b]

2. I am a running dictionary of acronymns given my career history. That said, what drives me insane

are those (speaking) who use the acronym rather than saying the actual term--even (and especially) when the acronym has more syllables and thus is longer to say than the actual term.

Drives me NUTs.

[DEbluedude]

3. Oh! FFS.

[mr_lebowski]

5. I no rt? JFC! nt

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. I don't even know

A quarter of the abbreviations period. Could a list of abbreviations on DU or not be put up, I'll save it on my phone,look them up until they are memorized.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. I likewise am often frustrated by people here using

what I think are very obscure abbreviations. And I'm here every day.

Many years ago, in my very first job as a nurse's aide, I was chastised for using an abbreviation we employees used all the time to a patient. It was pointed out that someone who didn't work there would have no way of knowing what I meant what I referred to the little CS.

It was a good lesson, and it's stayed with me all these years.

Oh, that's right, you likewise don't have a clue. It was the little central supply, the satellite one we had in our part of the hospital, as compared to the main CS, the main central supply.

[CaptYossarian]

7. If people can't spell the words,

what if they misspell the acronyms?

[Igel]

8. IMHO, wrt abbreviations,

usually context or the Internet helps a lot.

Did run into "mas" today and it took me a huge effort to decipher it as "milli-arc-second". Upwards of 15 seconds, no more than 20, but I swear, it felt much longer--maybe the eternity of as much as 30 or 35 seconds.

W/e.

Were you around after SCOTUS made * POTUS and he was in the WH?

[Stuart G]

9. Who is *....don't know that one.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. GW Bush

the president with an asterik beside his name.

[lame54]

11. WTFAUTA?

[treestar]

12. I often have to google them

And it doesn’t always work! Or there are thousands of answers !

[sammythecat]

13. If you're gonna say a certain thing one time,

say it completely. Ain't gonna kill ya. More than once? Go ahead and abbreviate, but the first time you should parenthetically spell it out.

[Hekate]

15. Olden Days DU had a group devoted to DU vocabulary. It was a hoot...

Acronyms didn't start with texting -- tho I am sure texting and twitting have made it worse.