Text abbreviations

[Brains]

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In another thread it was asked what IYKNK means... As a little bit of information here's a list of some abbrevs' a few date back to WW2, but most are from the 90's when texts were limited in the number of characters available. Keep it short and simple

 

[Lankyman]

I hear these are becoming popular

 

[Cantclimbtom]

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In another thread it was asked what IYKNK means... As a little bit of information here's a list of some abbrevs' a few date back to WW2, but most are from the 90's when texts were limited in the number of characters available. Keep it short and simple

You know you're getting old when you need to lookup abbreviations like this

(Unfortunately I need it too )

 

[topcat]

The very few people who have my phone number know that if they text me I expect full wording and punctuation, in the King's English. Anything less gets ignored.

I don't get many texts .......

 

[mrodoc]

This is not a new phenomenon. Those in the know often use shorthand acronyms that gradually leak out to the wider world. What bugged me professionally was having managers turn up, using acronyms they had grown familiar with but were meaningless to me. It also happened in hospital medicine where new procedures would get acronyms. Back in the early 80's I once got a discharge note about a patient who had had a CABG with a LIMA to the LAD. I think there might have been a few more on the form. Translated it meant Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting with a left internal mammary artery {graft} to the Left Anterior Descending artery. When using an acronym for the first time it should always be explained.

 

[rm128]

I was once sub-contracted to do a job for the Navy, via a bigger consultancy. When I eventually came to present my work to the Navy, there were 7 of us in the meeting: me, 3 from the bigger consultancy and 3 from the Navy. One of the people from the consultancy seemed a bit out of place. I'd never met him before and he knew nothing about what I'd been up to. The reason for his presence became obvious as soon as the 1st Navy person spoke... in nothing but acronyms. It turns out that this extra person was there purely to translate Navy-speak into English. Quite ridiculous.

 

[legendrider]

Late for a meet, I explained to my team that I'd been stuck behind a PCV (pensioner-controlled vehicle).

 

[paul]

I sat next to an engineer at a large construction an engineering firm years ago and overheard him telling a story about GNR at the firm he used to work at previously. Apparently inspection reports among the engineers referred to the levels of GNR in items and this gradually spread to other non-engineers without knowing what the letters stood for, only it had something to do with quality level. It even appeared in an annual report expensive brochure produced by the firm saying GNR had been reduced that year. When he was asked what did the abbreviation GNR actually stand for, he replied "generalised nob rot".

 

[mrodoc]

And that reminds me of a houseman who wrote as a diagnosis when admitting a patient GOK. The sister on the ward was quite outraged when he explained "God Only Knows"

 

[shotlighter]

And that reminds me of a houseman who wrote as a diagnosis when admitting a patient GOK. The sister on the ward was quite outraged when he explained "God Only Knows"

I found the "non-joke" PUO rather funny. It stood for Pyrexia of Unknown Origen, or the patient has a temperature for some unknown reason.
So not dissimilar form your GOK!

 

[spelfish]

Intensive care sickness scoring in the 1980s:
ATB - absolutely tickety boo
NQR - not quite right
FUBAR - F'ed up beyond all recognition
JPFROG - Just plain F'ing run out of gas

 

[ChrisB]

I once asked my dentist the meaning of some of the initials used between dentist and assistant. One was "BOB" (bleeds on brushing) but she said a dental colleague had told a patient that it meant "bits of bacon".

 

[Tricky Dicky]

I once knew a pathologist with a PUO number plate, he claimed he raised the nurses temperatures (back in the 80's when that sort of thing was a bit more acceptable.

I'll see you your FUBAR and raise you FUBAR-UNDY; F'ed up beyond all resuscitation-Unfortunately not dead yet (typically someone terminally injured in an RTC, you're never going to be able to save them, just make them comfortable).

 

[JasonC]

JPFROG - Just plain F'ing run out of gas

That describes me on many a caving trip!

 

[mrodoc]

I devised a few acronyms of my own when writing a piece for the Descent handbook years ago. One was CMTMF (caverns measureless to man fever) and OUTE (overwhelming urge to exit)

 

[danthecavingman]

Too many TLAs here...