This is so true - I frequently find myself struggling to squeeze an important message into the 140 - character limit of a text (and using all sorts of
abbreviations like «c u @ wrk» and «r u going 2»), and then realizing, «Hey, I know (or have) this person's email address,» and then quickly switching to Blackberry email mode to compose a more intelligent missive.
Because tweets can only be 140 characters Twitter users use
abbreviations like RT to save space.
Abbreviations like this are essentially code, and social media should be easy to consume!
The WSJ attributed this trend to the rise of dating apps and the common use of text slang, with
abbreviations like YOLO (You only Live Once) replacing standard phrasing and sentences.
I used to hate when people would talk to me with acroynms and
abbreviations like IMHO (in my honest opinion) or RTFM (read the freakin manual).
If you see
abbreviations like OBF and OBV, they are referring to rayon from bamboo.
But the actual resume itself, that's where you really want the accomplishments to stand out, so whatever
abbreviation you like for the behavioral interview format, response, that certainly would be something that I would reserve for a resume.
Not exact matches
Better known by the
abbreviation ICBMs, such missiles can do exactly what their name implies: deliver a weapon,
like a nuclear warhead or nerve agents, to another continent.
Even if it looks
like a bewildering mess of numbers, codes and
abbreviations, there's a good reason to learn how to make sense of it.
In some respects, the race for coveted three - letter
abbreviations is much
like the race for domain names during the dot - com boom.
If you are asking for proofreading and spellcheck on a site
like this — especially in our texting / twitter world where speed - typing, auto - correct and
abbreviations have become the norm.........
Now it's just an
abbreviation of my name because I
like being a boring loser.
I am not a fan of these annoying little digital
abbreviations (
like LOL and ROFLMAO), but, while I wasn't rolling on any floors, I have definitely been laughing — out loud and (wishfully), my @ $ $ off.
Social media acronyms and
abbreviations can feel
like another whole language.
The kids did big packets over the rest of the week, finishing up by learning things
like abbreviations (and using them) and doing age appropriate worksheets.
But why do
abbreviations unique to the Web, such as «lls» («laughing
like shit») also show variation — in this case, clustered around Maryland?
In many ways, writing DNA code is becoming
like writing computer code, but instead of ones and zeros, it's written in As, Cs, Ts and Gs —
abbreviations for the four interconnecting nucleotides that form DNA's ladderlike structure.
Abbreviations: AL3E, after L3 ecdysis; FoxO, Forkhead Box O; FRE, FoxO - Response Element; GBP, Growth - Blocking Peptide; GFP, green fluorescent protein; IIS, insulin / insulin -
like growth factor signaling; ILP, insulin -
like peptide; L3, third larval instar; pAKT, phosphorylated AKT; ppl, pumpless; qPCR, quantitative PCR; Rheb, Ras homolog enriched in brain ortholog; TOR, Target of Rapamycin
Abbreviations: ASC, apoptosis - associated speck -
like protein containing a caspase - recruitment domain; ATM, adipose - tissue - resident macrophage; BAT, brown adipose tissue; CCR2, CC chemokine receptor 2; CHOP, C / EBP (CCAAT / enhancer - binding protein)- homologous protein; DHA, docosahexaenoic acid; EPA, eicosapentaenoic acid; ER, endoplasmic reticulum; GPCR, G - protein - coupled receptor; HIF, hypoxia - inducible factor; IFNγ, interferon γ; IKK, inhibitor of nuclear factor κB kinase; IL, interleukin; IRS - 1, insulin receptor substrate - 1; JNK, c - Jun N - terminal kinase; LDL, low - density lipoprotein; Ldlr, LDL receptor; LXR, liver X receptor; MCP - 1, monocyte chemoattractant protein 1; miRNA, microRNA; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; NF - κB, nuclear factor κB; NLRP3, NLR (nucleotide - binding - domain - and leucine - rich - repeat - containing) family, pyrin - domain - containing 3; oxLDL, oxidized LDL; PKR, double - stranded RNA - dependent protein kinase; PPAR, peroxisome - proliferator - activated receptor; STAT6, signal transducer and activator of transcription 6; SVF, stromal vascular fraction; TLR, Toll -
like receptor; TNFα, tumour necrosis factor α; UPR, unfolded protein response; WAT, white adipose tissue
Abbreviations: AMPAR, AMPA receptor; AS, Angelman syndrome; BDNF, brain - derived neurotrophic factor; CaMKII, α - calcium / calmodulin - dependent protein kinase II; CGN, cerebellar granule neuron; co-IP, coimmunoprecipitation; DG, dentate gyrus; ERK, extracellular signal - regulated kinase; fEPSP, field excitatory postsynaptic potential; Gab1, Grb2 - associated binder 1; HFS, high frequency stimulation; IGF, insulin -
like growth factor; LTP, long - term potentiation; PSD - 95, postsynaptic density protein - 95; SYN, synaptophysin; WT, wild type
Or, if you
like abbreviations, it's SPFM.
Online daters even use
abbreviations to let potential matches know what they
like in the bedroom.
Personals sites work almost exactly
like dating websites, but often your profile is shorter, people use more
abbreviations, and you'll do more of the searching yourself.
CMYK, PMS, RGB, It may look
like industry jargon, but these color
abbreviations are something every.
Abbreviations included are things
like misread word, omitted word, skips a line, etc..
Like nearly every Audi gasoline engine, this one also operates via direct fuel injection known by the
abbreviation FSI.
At least one symbol still lives on - the Tironian symbol for et (and) which looks a little
like the number 7 is still used in Irish Gaelic as an
abbreviation for «and».
It seems
like the correct style for writing
abbreviations is in flux.
The 1 stands for a, the 26 for z, a geeky naming convention inside Amazon where groups
like the personalization team are referred to by the
abbreviation P13N.
Giving names
like POM, Sptiz or any other breeds of other dogs or
abbreviation will be an unwise act.
Geneticists have not always agreed on what letters to use, but I
like the
abbreviations or symbols used by Dr. Clarence Little, for the most part, and you can use your own words: «A» might refer to «Agouti» or «All - over» pattern.
All that probably sounds
like mostly useless jargon, it did to me, however Metalhead have explained it all in their How To Play section where I also actually learned about baseball
abbreviations that had always previously gone over my head.
The English words weren't vulgar or overused and some of them such as «HP» were just common
abbreviations of known words
like «Health Points».
When picking your future champion, you select one of of F1's preset avatars, give your future champion a name (we all usually name ourselves lets be honest) and a 3 letter
abbreviation,
like for myself KYL.
The initials «PS» are an
abbreviation of PlayStation, just
like they were on PSP, and PS Vita is part of the Sony Interactive brand of gaming devices.
In most games, a TNT Barrel looks
like a regular barrel with a fuse and the
abbreviation «TNT» painted in white on the front.
Comic Strip 1962 contains a series of cartoon -
like drawings, done in the style of American greats such as Saul Steinberg (hence the artist's cartoonist - style
abbreviation of his name to «Gerd» here).
Try to anticipate
abbreviations of your terms — 140 characters is not much space, so how likely is a tweet to include a term
like «workers» compensation insurance appeals tribunal»?
Some useful tools are the Cardiff Index to Legal
Abbreviations, library catalogs including Open WorldCat and the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, full - text law and non-law journal databases / scholarship repositories, and digital libraries
like Google Books, HathiTrust, Gallica, etc..
If a business is a corporation you can usually tell because the company's name will end with «limited,» «corporation,» «incorporated» or an
abbreviation for one of these names
like Ltd., Corp. or Inc..
An exception would be when the
abbreviation is so well known that it has secondary meaning,
like MoFo.com.
Two - letter US state
abbreviations match individual US states, and two - letter Canadian province
abbreviations (
like NS for Nova Scotia) also work — although some provinces don't have many newspapers online, so you may not get many results.
(2003), para. 17.275, refers readers to the ordinary legal stylebooks, but adds: «In nonlegal works, the rules may be adjusted to the style of the surrounding documentation; providing adequate information to help readers find a source is more important than slavishly following prescribed forms of
abbreviation and the
like.»
Like simple interest, rates can be broken down into two
abbreviations: APR, or Annual Percentage Rate, interest tacked onto loans; and APY, Annual Percentage Yield, interest earned, or yielded, on a deposit or investment account.
(BTC and XBT mean the same thing and are industry standard
abbreviations for bitcoins,
like GBP for Pound Sterling)
In some respects, the race for coveted three - letter
abbreviations is much
like the race for domain names during the dot - com boom.
The same goes for stuff
like stock information: you can just enter a company's ticker
abbreviation.
The key is to be consistent with details
like capitalization, numbers, dates, and
abbreviations.
Sending emails that look
like texts with shorthand and
abbreviations is not considered appropriate professional communication at work.
Continue being inconsistent with keywords, including multiple versions of important terms
like abbreviations and acronyms with the words or phrases they represent: