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ironmagma
1314 days ago
These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”
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cassianoleal
1314 days ago
At least that can usually be understood from context. Acronyms and initialisms usually cannot unless you already know them.
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killjoywashere
1314 days ago
Sounds like most conversations I had with cybersecurity people until I learned about NIST 800s, FIPS, CNSS, STIGs, etc.
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gardenhedge
1314 days ago
This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.
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lapetitejort
1314 days ago
How about Thu for Thursday?
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ironmagma
1314 days ago
Apr for April :P
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ihatepython
1314 days ago
And Jun for June?
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bloodyplonker22
1314 days ago
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?
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hanche
1314 days ago
Prime Minister of what country?
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marginalia_nu
1314 days ago
Kinda reminding me of when you're autocompleting commands in a shell prompt.
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ineedasername
1314 days ago
“My name is not Tom”
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feet
1314 days ago
"Who tf is Tom?"
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sn41
1314 days ago
Apache Tomcat, a casual acquaintance of the local tomboy.
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divan
1314 days ago
And K instead of OK
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ARandomerDude
1314 days ago
And “OK” instead of “I understand, thank you.”
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MonkeyClub
1314 days ago
Still, “k” is infinitely better than a thumbs up.
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ovao
1314 days ago
Hmm, how so? A thumbs up is more bytes, and thus more poignant.
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divan
1313 days ago
No, I'm talking specifically about case of reducing two letters to one.
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fareesh
1314 days ago
OK is oll korrect
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tingletech
1314 days ago
okay
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