[tchalla]

These initialisms, abbreviations and acronyms are getting out of hand.

[ironmagma]

These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”

[cassianoleal]

At least that can usually be understood from context. Acronyms and initialisms usually cannot unless you already know them.

[killjoywashere]

Sounds like most conversations I had with cybersecurity people until I learned about NIST 800s, FIPS, CNSS, STIGs, etc.

[gardenhedge]

This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.

[lapetitejort]

How about Thu for Thursday?

[ironmagma]

Apr for April :P

[ihatepython]

And Jun for June?

[bloodyplonker22]

I literally just had a PM tell me "we will talk about that 'tom'". It left me confused for a few seconds. Is it really that hard to use a couple more syllables?

[hanche]

Prime Minister of what country?

[marginalia_nu]

Kinda reminding me of when you're autocompleting commands in a shell prompt.

[ineedasername]

“My name is not Tom”

[feet]

"Who tf is Tom?"

[sn41]

Apache Tomcat, a casual acquaintance of the local tomboy.

[divan]

And K instead of OK

[ARandomerDude]

And “OK” instead of “I understand, thank you.”

[MonkeyClub]

Still, “k” is infinitely better than a thumbs up.

[ovao]

Hmm, how so? A thumbs up is more bytes, and thus more poignant.

[divan]

No, I'm talking specifically about case of reducing two letters to one.

[fareesh]

OK is oll korrect

[tingletech]

okay

[jtsuken]

https://phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1791

[svnpenn]

typical hacker news bullshit.

people forget that many acronyms are context sensitive and/or audience sensitive. they just assume everyone across the world has the same shared life experience that they do.

[eli]

Specifically the use of military jargon to describe consumer software

[awinder]

Many small time make big time