What do the abreviations mean?

Don't think I've seen WFT. Oh well,it took me a year to figure out what YMMV meant. FWIW, I also refuse to ask for directions. ;) :)
f.t.
 
Thanks everybody for the info. I don't know where I got WFT from, but I think I meant FTF. I know that could mean failure to feed, but I doubt that's what it means here.

YMMV was a tough one for me too. :D
 
I hate abrieviations. They are big on it in everything to do with flying. Unless you live and breath one subject it gets confuseing. I also think its a ego thing with the writer, kind of like, " look how cool and knowledgable I am", beginner! I think it can be a form of down talking to someone. Its big in LE groups too.
 
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feralmerril said:
I hate abrieviations. They are big on it in everything to do with flying. Unless you live and breath one subject it gets confuseing. I also think its a ego thing with the writer, kind of like, " look how cool and knowledgable I am", beginner! I think it can be a form of down talking to someone. Its big in LE groups too.
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I'm with you. What happens is that after a while people lose the ability to spell. And some posts are so rife with abbreviations that the post makes no sense whatsoever.

"Its big in LE groups too". LE? (kidding) :D
 
Back in the Navy , we usually spoke in numbers , letters , and acronyms.

Years ago I got a call at work from my Navy Reserve Squadron. I asked the secretary who it was and she said, "He didn't have a name , just a bunch of letters and numbers".
 
as usual TTIWWP
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TheNakedGunFighter that was a poor attempt at being funny by me; my humor is sometimes obscure. It was not meant to poke fun at your original post, sorry. :(
 
Hey I even have trouble with the state abbreviations. ME - MA - MS - MI - MT and so on. I'm convinced that someday the postal service will do away with state names and replace them with numbers. You won't be from Nebraska anymore - you'll be from 67377. Maybe I'm ol' fashioned and weird but when I'm sending a letter I spell out the state names - M_I_S_S_I_S_S_I_P_P_I - that's a fun one to write. And I've always felt the state names are beautiful words. Don't want to loose them. Probably someday I'll be visited by an agent of the post office in a black suit and reflective sunglasses and he'll ask me if I'm the guy who keeps spelling out state names.

rolomac
 
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TheNakedGunFighter that was a poor attempt at being funny by me; my humor is sometimes obscure. It was not meant to poke fun at your original post, sorry. :(
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You know, I wondered what that meant. But since I didn't know, I didn't take offense. It's a good one though. :D

Now as soon as I figure out what CTG means my life will be complete. :)
 
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Hey I even have trouble with the state abbreviations. ME - MA - MS - MI - MT and so on. I'm convinced that someday the postal service will do away with state names and replace them with numbers. You won't be from Nebraska anymore - you'll be from 67377. Maybe I'm ol' fashioned and weird but when I'm sending a letter I spell out the state names - M_I_S_S_I_S_S_I_P_P_I - that's a fun one to write. And I've always felt the state names are beautiful words. Don't want to loose them. Probably someday I'll be visited by an agent of the post office in a black suit and reflective sunglasses and he'll ask me if I'm the guy who keeps spelling out state names.

rolomac
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You're the kind of guy that will never forget how to spell and construct a lucid, grammatically correct sentence. Ya gotta love technology, but it is contributing to the dumbing down of society. When I see a 40 word sentence or a 100 word response to something that doesn't contain a hint of punctuation, it just makes me cringe. :confused: The first rule of writing is to write the same way you speak.

If that guy from the post office comes to your door, ask him if he can spell Mississippi. If he can't, take his glasses and tell him to go away.
 
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Cartridge. Ya know, bullet. Round. Ammo. Shell.
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Thanks, I probably would never have figured this one out. First thing I thought of when I saw CTG. Whenever a major IT project had a ridiculous deadline, the manager would say "we'll just bring in CTG." Usually spent months fixing up what was left behind.

CTG = Computer Task Group
 
TheNakedGunFighter said:
What does et al mean?

Thanks very much.
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This from the guy slinging et al around?:D

et al. - and others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people); "the data reported by Smith et al."

TTFN
 
BUG does not mean Big Ugly Gorilla, it's short for Back Up Gun, S/N is not Spelling Nazi, it is Serial Number, P.O.S is not for Pending Other Sale it is for...........
 
This kind of thing can get you into trouble. Years ago in a sermon our preacher was bawling out us young people. He was going on and on about the evils of drinking. He was saying how liquor had knick names like hootch, booze etc. Then he said, "Why just the other day I came walking up behind several of the boys of this very church. They didnt see me but one asked the other, where can I find some poomtang?!"
 
handejector said:
Lucid??
Is that the regular form of Lucy?
Sounds like a germanic feminine name-

"Lucid, cook me der bratwurst."
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Actually Lucid is Lucy's second cousin on her mother's side. Lucid is a very well known purveyor of freshly made bratwurst that is widely known in the small hamlet of Sfargenharsen, Germany.

That you picked up on the Germanic origins of Lucid again proves my point. :D
 
Rule3 said:
This from the guy slinging et al around?:D

et al. - and others ('et al.' is used as an abbreviation of `et alii' (masculine plural) or `et aliae' (feminine plural) or `et alia' (neuter plural) when referring to a number of people); "the data reported by Smith et al."

TTFN
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Thanks for the explanation of et al, but I wasn't asking what it meant. I was using it to ask, as you point out, what "all the others" meant. In my OP, I would have used the word "and" to separate "SPF, and et al to ask what "et al" meant. :)
 
feralmerril said:
This kind of thing can get you into trouble. Years ago in a sermon our preacher was bawling out us young people. He was going on and on about the evils of drinking. He was saying how liquor had knick names like hootch, booze etc. Then he said, "Why just the other day I came walking up behind several of the boys of this very church. They didnt see me but one asked the other, where can I find some poomtang?!"
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I would have fell out the pew!
 
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