Too Many Acronymns!

[dae3dae3]

I'm sorry if this is out of line but the acronyms are getting out of control on this forum. Half the time I can't figure out what the poster is trying to say.

Is it really that hard to just type the word? At least use the word once and then abbreviate it so people that don't live on this board 365 days a year know what you are talking about. I've been building up to this post for a while so please don't think any one person's post is why I am writing this.

or

ISITIOOLBTAAGOOCOTF. HTTICFOWTPITTS. IIRTHTJTTW? ALUTWOATAISPTDLOTB365DAYKWYATA. IBBUTTPFAWSPDTAOPPIWIAWT.

 

[jco_direwolf]

I'm sorry if this is out of line but the acronyms are getting out of control on this forum. Half the time I can't figure out what the poster is trying to say.

Is it really that hard to just type the word? At least use the word once and then abbreviate it so people that don't live on this board 365 days a year know what you are talking about. I've been building up to this post for a while so please don't think any one person's post is why I am writing this.

or

ISITIOOLBTAAGOOCOTF. HTTICFOWTPITTS. IIRTHTJTTW? ALUTWOATAISPTDLOTB365DAYKWYATA. IBBUTTPFAWSPDTAOPPIWIAWT.

http://allears.net/tp/abrev.htm

try that. there are a lot of glossaries out there. This one isn't bad.

 

[KathyTX]

Or try our list of acronyms: Common Abbreviations

 

[Altoqueenkelly]

I swear this complaint happens every few days around here. You get used to it eventually. For those of us that come here often and frequently discuss the same things it is much easier to type CRT than Cinderella's Royal Table every time ( for example).

 

[dae3dae3]

I swear this complaint happens every few days around here. You get used to it eventually. For those of us that come here often and frequently discuss the same things it is much easier to type CRT than Cinderella's Royal Table every time ( for example).

My suggestion then would be to type it once and then CRT to your hearts content. Unless of course that is the subject of the thread and it is already clear. For heavens sake don't use the acronym in the thread title. That's just being lazy. Maybe the fact that the complaint is so common should be a hint that there is a problem and that this forum is not a very friendly place for beginners who are the people who need the most help.

I communicate with people all the time using acronyms in my job but if I'm not sure of the audience I will always use the full phrase once and then abbreviate going forward in the communication. It is bad enough that we need to weed through the 15 posts on each page complaining about fast passes. I don't want to have to also have a cheat sheet to read a supposedly English Language website. I could copy and paste some examples here that are pretty ridiculous and then the next four or five posts as people debate what they actually meant but I don't want to highlight any one person. Even people that are here a lot often can't figure it out.

 

[jco_direwolf]

My suggestion then would be to type it once and then CRT to your hearts content.

You are fighting literally 30 years of history and tradition here. I can read old 1988 posts I made to Rec.Arts.Disney (yes pre-RADP, jco@cis.ufl.edu) back in the day, and it was pretty much the same then.

But I think it's a super uphill battle you are fighting here.

 

[surferdave]

tl;dr

 

[gericoronado]

so people that don't live on this board 365 days a year know what you are talking about.

Stop by more often! Soon you'll be abbrev'ing with the best.

 

[Nancyg56]

Stop by more often! Soon you'll be abbrev'ing with the best.

 

[BrianL]

I went through teaching the acronyms to my friend who went with me on my last trip, but hadn't been in a while. He was resistant to using the acronyms for a while, telling me to "never say that to me again," but eventually he was using them, and correctly. It just takes practice, though I'll admit sometimes I see some that I still don't know.

 

[Disfan1968]

My opinion is most of the acronyms are fine, but I do think some people over do it, making their own acronyms up, simply to make people have to sit there wracking their brains.

ECFWFG.... now what could that stand for?

 

[BudgieMama]

tl;dr

 

[MillauFr]

I agree with the too many acronyms. I have been using the board for a few years and I don't know half of them. It is really confusing when people are using different acronyms for the same phrase, 7DMT SDMT. I wish they would update the software that powers the message boards to automatically translate them.

 

[jco_direwolf]

I agree with the too many acronyms. I have been using the board for a few years and I don't know half of them. It is really confusing when people are using different acronyms for the same phrase, 7DMT SDMT. I wish they would update the software that powers the message boards to automatically translate them.

Can't expand them automatically without something that understands context.

Simple example CM means Cast Member AND Chef Mickeys. Without context you don't know which to use.

And heaven help us if you are talking about "the wonderful CM durning our last trip to CM at the CR and going to GS."

 

[MillauFr]

Can't expand them automatically without something that understands context.

Simple example CM means Cast Member AND Chef Mickeys. Without context you don't know which to use.

And heaven help us if you are talking about "the wonderful CM durning our last trip to CM at the CR and going to GS."

Exactly why I don't like them. I don't understand what the person is trying to say half the time. The terms have multiple meanings.

 

[NYDisneyKid]

Wait till the kids of today fill out a job application and use all acrynoms. You know what scares me is the one of them may be sitting in the white house running this country.

 

[RealBlast3]

I think everyone should always type Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow from now on when talking about EPCOT because it's been getting too confusing lately.

 

[POB14]

I completely misunderstood an entire thread once because I thought DLP was Disneyland PARK, not Disneyland Paris.

Every community develops shorthand and jargon. There's no preventing it.

 

[SillySallySews]

Tip: if you don't like acronyms, you should probably steer clear of a career in the military. I'm just saying.

 

[jco_direwolf]

Exactly why I don't like them. I don't understand what the person is trying to say half the time. The terms have multiple meanings.

It's a problem with English, it 's not limited to this board. There are a number of sentence that are ambiguous, you can't understand them without knowing what the person is talking about already.

The classic example is..
"You can't put too much water in a nuclear reactor." Should I drain the extra water out or top it off to overflowing?

Again no one is forcing you to use them, you are welcome to post how ever you want. I really try not to use them either for what it's worth. But a general "Everyone should stop because it's hard for me" isn't going to get any traction.