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Hi Everyone.
Is it just me being a miserable old git, but I absolutely hate the increasing use of abbreviations in threads ,news etc, half the time I have to look up what they mean ,and even then have never heard of them,I can just imagine my old school master if we had tried shortening essay,s .etc.
Rant over . may I wish you all a happy Christmas and a healthy new year.
 
Topmast said:
Hi Everyone.
Is it just me being a miserable old git, but I absolutely hate the increasing use of abbreviations in threads ,news etc, half the time I have to look up what they mean ,and even then have never heard of them,I can just imagine my old school master if we had tried shortening essay,s .etc.
Rant over . may I wish you all a happy Christmas and a healthy new year.
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I must admit I'm not keen on them either, but I do enjoy working out some unfamiliar ones sometimes.
 
Even when you could only send a text of 147 characters on the early Nokia mobile phones, I did my best to use proper grammar, punctuation, capital letters, and the use of whole words.
Still try to do that today, a minor obsession, although I would not claim to be perfect or a pedant. Just a touch of obsessive compulsive disorder. Nearly just put ocd there!!

Davy
 
Topmast said:
Hi Everyone.
Is it just me being a miserable old git, but I absolutely hate the increasing use of abbreviations in threads ,news etc, half the time I have to look up what they mean ,and even then have never heard of them,I can just imagine my old school master if we had tried shortening essay,s .etc.
Rant over . may I wish you all a happy Christmas and a healthy new year.
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ERR!! ECT is an abbreviation innit?
 
Robmac said:
No Kev ECT isn't. :)
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I used caps to make it more obvious.


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Pudsey Bear said:
ERR!! ECT is an abbreviation innit?
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Correct.
ECT stands for ElectroConvulsive Therapy, a medical treatment that uses electrical stimulation to the brain to treat severe mental health conditions,

and for Engine Coolant Temperature, and refers to a sensor that measures the temperature of a car's coolant,

as well as Eddy Current Testing, an electromagnetic testing method for nondestructive testing (NDT) of conductive materials.
 
r4dent said:
Correct.
ECT stands for ElectroConvulsive Therapy, a medical treatment that uses electrical stimulation to the brain to treat severe mental health conditions,

and for Engine Coolant Temperature, and refers to a sensor that measures the temperature of a car's coolant,

as well as Eddy Current Testing, an electromagnetic testing method for nondestructive testing (NDT) of conductive materials.
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I knew you were going to say that. :ROFLMAO:
 
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Soooo thinking about it,
Wouldn’t ’Signage’ be a kinda visual prompt to Shorten the words that would be required to impart information.

Like Abbreviations 🤷🏻‍♂️

Yep let’s start poking signage as well, & Don’t get me started on Emojis 🫣😳.

I’m beginning to think the Caveman had communication cracked.
It simply came down to size matterd with who had the biggest club.
 
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