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