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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 661933" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>If people would type correctly, it would help.</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/Graemlins/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl:" title="rofl :rofl:" data-shortname=":rofl:" /></p><p> </p><p>I couldn't BELIEVE that someone actually typed D.C. without the periods to mean District of Columbia. Cheryl was definitely aware (because I brought it up) that we would run into this one eventually, but I sure didn't expect to see it show up so soon.</p><p> </p><p>We implemented Difficult Child, to get rid of the confusion around "difficult child".</p><p>Which everyone then shortened to "D C" (minus the space).</p><p>Which puts us back where we started.</p><p> </p><p>The name that becomes "thank you" is "T Y" (minus the space).</p><p> </p><p>Technically, Bi-Polar is two separate conditions, and the short forms should be BPI and BPII. But most of us lump them together.</p><p> </p><p>The problem with acronyms is that the meaning depends on context, and acronym expanders aren't particularly good at context. I work in a sea of acronyms (the field of hi-tech), and even there we run into multiple meanings depending on which operating system and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 661933, member: 11791"] If people would type correctly, it would help. :rofl: I couldn't BELIEVE that someone actually typed D.C. without the periods to mean District of Columbia. Cheryl was definitely aware (because I brought it up) that we would run into this one eventually, but I sure didn't expect to see it show up so soon. We implemented Difficult Child, to get rid of the confusion around "difficult child". Which everyone then shortened to "D C" (minus the space). Which puts us back where we started. The name that becomes "thank you" is "T Y" (minus the space). Technically, Bi-Polar is two separate conditions, and the short forms should be BPI and BPII. But most of us lump them together. The problem with acronyms is that the meaning depends on context, and acronym expanders aren't particularly good at context. I work in a sea of acronyms (the field of hi-tech), and even there we run into multiple meanings depending on which operating system and so on. [/QUOTE]
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