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Subject: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: MBSLynne Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:12 AM I do wish people wouldn't use three, four and five letter abbreviations for everything and expect the whole world to understand what they mean. I read the title about the RIAA or whatever it is shutting down the internet. As far as I'm concerned they could have been saying that the RSPB was shutting down the internet! I still don't know what the RIAA is. A lot of abbreviations are country, occupation or interest specific so that people outside those don't understand. What is wrong with words?? Or at least explaining the abbreviation so when you use it subsequently in the text, people will know what you mean. Rant over Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: catspaw49 Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:15 AM LOL......Okay, but you first. What is MBS? (;<)) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Micca Date: 01 Dec 06 - 03:26 AM Middle Bar Singers (Refers to the Middle Bar of the Anchor Pub in Sidmouth UK where choral singing takes place during Sidmouth Folk week in August every year) |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Paul Burke Date: 01 Dec 06 - 04:52 AM Oh. I thought Middle Bar Singers only sang the middle bar in each line, a bit like: ..... April .... ..... the sun ... .... April .... .... the small .... ... singing ..... .... love it .... ..... were the .... .... the small .... (In case you didn't recognise it that's from TOOAM). Back to the MDF. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: MBSLynne Date: 01 Dec 06 - 08:55 AM Ooops! Lol! My excuse is that it is part of my name so nobody needs to understand it! Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: mack/misophist Date: 01 Dec 06 - 11:20 AM RIAA, for whose who don't know, = Recording Industry Assn. of America. They can be very pushy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Schantieman Date: 01 Dec 06 - 11:35 AM Scarcely choral singing, Lynne - more chorusy/communal singing! As one who regularly uses TLAs in my Naval existence - the RN survives almost exclusively on them - I agree that they are very confusing and opaque to the unitiated. That's wht many people use them. ;-) Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Schantieman Date: 01 Dec 06 - 11:38 AM ...and someone was talking about G & T in the common room the other day. Turned out it was gifted and talented rather than the sort that goes with lemon. Shame. S |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Amos Date: 01 Dec 06 - 12:32 PM My son has been iden5tified as a gin and tonic? By whom? LOL!!! The RN (Registered Nurse) like all departments of the American DOD (Dunderheads On Display) could not function without acronyms, including nested acronyms in which one letter of the acronym stands for another acronym. It's part of their collective madness, a sort of institutional substitute for genuine thought about the business of destroying others. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 06 - 05:56 PM LOL...Laugh Out Loud! Joe sent me to this thread after I used HHI in a PM, BUT I had used the meaning, first: Him/Her/It. I suppose She/He/It coudld be SHeeIT!:-) Lynne, I didn't have a clue about the RIAA, either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: jeffp Date: 01 Dec 06 - 06:16 PM Around here, HHI is Hilton Head Island. You see lots of cars with oval stickers with HHI, especially ones where the I is the Hilton Head lighthouse. Myself, any acronym I can't identify, I Google. That usually clears it up quickly. I certainly wouldn't ask the world to stop using acronyms I don't know. YMMV |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: bobad Date: 01 Dec 06 - 06:30 PM I use this site http://www.acronymfinder.com/, it works. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: katlaughing Date: 01 Dec 06 - 07:23 PM Yeah, I did "gee" the RIAA, Wesley.:-) Thanks, bobad! |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: the lemonade lady Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:01 AM bloody PRS! |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: MBSLynne Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:10 AM I thought an acronym was a word made from initials, not just initials themselves? Love Lynne |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: freda underhill Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:13 AM these TLAs are a bunch of BS. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: freda underhill Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:15 AM btw, what does TLA mean? |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: JennyO Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:32 AM Three Letter Abbreviations freda - see Lynne's first post. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: GUEST,no comment Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:52 AM TLA – Two letter acronym, could also be a three letter acronym ETLA – Extended three letter acronym, also known as a FLA (four letter acronym) EETLA – Extended, expanded, three letter acronym (five letter acronym) FLA – can be a four, or five letter acronym. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:58 AM What a lot of C.R.A.P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: autolycus Date: 02 Dec 06 - 06:55 AM What do C.,R.,A. and P mstand for? Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Ron Davies Date: 02 Dec 06 - 06:56 AM Well maybe we should provide a list of all US Post Office 2-letter abbreviations for US states--so everybody can print it out and we won't have that problem. I don't think we're about to type out the name of a state every time. Actually I never have a problem asking about an abbreviation--if I can't already figure it out by context. But this is a fun thread anyway. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Ron Davies Date: 02 Dec 06 - 06:58 AM Auto-- Censible, Reezanable And Proper |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Georgiansilver Date: 02 Dec 06 - 11:08 AM autolycus C.R.A and P stand for CRAP! |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Micca Date: 02 Dec 06 - 02:11 PM I thought it stood for Chunky Recycled Arse Product |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Schantieman Date: 02 Dec 06 - 04:53 PM TLAs are definitely three letter ABBREVIATIONS, not acronyms. What really annoys me is the all-too-frequent occurrence of RAS syndrome. (See 'Feedback' on the penultimate page of 'New Scientist', weekly. S |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:06 PM I seem to turn up in posts sometimes as MGOH. As in "By Christ MGOH, do you not spout some complete and utter crap at times." |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: pdq Date: 02 Dec 06 - 05:13 PM Official USPS Abbreviations: ALABAMA AL ALASKA AK AMERICAN SAMOA AS ARIZONA AZ ARKANSAS AR CALIFORNIA CA COLORADO CO CONNECTICUT CT DELAWARE DE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DC FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FM FLORIDA FL GEORGIA GA GUAM GU HAWAII HI IDAHO ID ILLINOIS IL INDIANA IN IOWA IA KANSAS KS KENTUCKY KY LOUISIANA LA MAINE ME MARSHALL ISLANDS MH MARYLAND MD MASSACHUSETTS MA MICHIGAN MI MINNESOTA MN MISSISSIPPI MS MISSOURI MO MONTANA MT NEBRASKA NE NEVADA NV NEW HAMPSHIRE NH NEW JERSEY NJ NEW MEXICO NM NEW YORK NY NORTH CAROLINA NC NORTH DAKOTA ND NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS MP OHIO OH OKLAHOMA OK OREGON OR PALAU PW PENNSYLVANIA PA PUERTO RICO PR RHODE ISLAND RI SOUTH CAROLINA SC SOUTH DAKOTA SD TENNESSEE TN TEXAS TX UTAH UT VERMONT VT VIRGIN ISLANDS VI VIRGINIA VA WASHINGTON WA WEST VIRGINIA WV WISCONSIN WI WYOMING WY Military "State" Abbreviation Armed Forces Africa AE Armed Forces Americas (except Canada) AA Armed Forces Canada AE Armed Forces Europe AE Armed Forces Middle East AE Armed Forces Pacific AP |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: JennyO Date: 02 Dec 06 - 09:52 PM Thanks Schantieman - re TLAs. It seems that every time I've posted what I thought were facts lately, someone has come along and contradicted me. LED (Liquid Crystal Display) in the redundant thread, was another one. But as with this one, someone came along later and said I was in fact right. It's nice to be right at least some of the time ;-) Speaking of people's names in acronym form, My Guru Always Said (MGAS) has always made me chuckle. She might not be too thrilled with the abbreviation though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: JennyO Date: 02 Dec 06 - 10:25 PM Oops, meant to say LCD not LED. I wish we had an edit button here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: jeffp Date: 02 Dec 06 - 10:32 PM At least you get the satisfaction of having caught it yourself, rather than somebody else contradicting you again. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: JennyO Date: 03 Dec 06 - 10:57 AM Yes Jeff, I thought that too at the time ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: GUEST Date: 03 Dec 06 - 06:28 PM I don't think Emgas is too worried about her abbreviated form |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: jeffp Date: 03 Dec 06 - 07:10 PM I'd like to abbreviate my form a bit, especially the belly area. |
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Subject: RE: BS: TLAs and FLAs From: Amos Date: 03 Dec 06 - 08:32 PM In informal DoD talk, TLA stands for three-letter acronym. The place reeks with them. An abbreviation is not made from initial letters of some phrase, while an acronym usually is, such as DOD (Department of Defense) or ASPCA (American Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals). A |
