How many times we abbreviate and then expand a little of that ?

[ramani]

We often use superfluous language..

IT Technology - (Information Technology technology)
FD drive - (Floppy drive drive)
PDF format file - (Portable document format format file)
GIF file
DOS system
LIBOR rate - (London interbank offer rate rate)

and such words with tail expansions. May be others could add many more.



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ramani - (Subramanian.G)

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[sleipnir214]

<facetious>
I've always figured that NT was really a contraction missing its apostrophe.

As in don't, can't, shouldn't
</facetious>


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[Stella740pl]

Good lord, been using NT for years and never thought to ask what it stood for!
Ditto.
Just out of curiosity looked up Acronym Finder site for XP, as in Windows XP, and found out it stands for Experience!
So can one now safely state in a resume having experience with Windows XP?

 

[ppc386]

> Good lord, been using NT for years and
> _never thought_
> to ask what it stood for!

"Never Thought" ?
Hey, I like that one!

 

[xaqster]

Just like Basic used to be BASIC and stood for Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, but now isn't and doesn't?

I cannot find a reference except

http://www.startwright.com/words1.htm

, but I thought BASIC was a bacronym?

"Strande things are afoot at the Circle K"

---

"I'm just here to regulate funkyness"

http://www.kerbside.net

 

[strongm]

bacronym? Not that I'm aware of. I'm pretty sure that when Kurtz and Kemeny came up with BASIC at Dartmouth in <fx: google> 1963/64 the acronym was already in place. However even if it did come (a little) later, the point is that it is now Basic (not BASIC) and is no longer an acronym

 

[Thadeus]

How about Florida Governor JEB Bush - John Ellis Bush Bush... Just listening to NPR in the car on the ride in and thought of this forum.... I gotta get a life. ;-)

~Thadeus

 

[lespaul]

nothing wrong with NPR and TT, doesn't mean you don't have a life, I do the same thing.....ummmm, do I not have a life either...am I just deluding my self???

Leslie

 

[Dimandja]

NPR, TT, and coffee. That's life.

 

[lespaul]

oh, good, then I do have a life (except I have to replace the coffee with tea....... coffee, ugh)!!!

Leslie

 

[ppc386]

> NPR, TT, and coffee. That's life.

It's a vicious cycle - the more coffee I drink, the more I need to TT

 

[RealityCheque]

It is possibly to have deju vu about having deju vu, so you could have "deju vu all over again"

I have yet to have deju vu about having deju vu about having deju vu, which I am pleased about as my head hurts enough as it is just having seen myself seeing something else before.

Simon

"I do not have to forgive my enemies. I have had them all shot."
- Ramon Maria Narvaez

 

[strongm]

Normally I probably wouldn't be pedantic about this, but since this is the Making an Impression Forum...

"deja", not "deju

 

[RealityCheque]

Gah, that'll teach me to post during crisis moments at work! I didn't think it looked right, but after typing it six times I was beginning to forget what it meant...

*beats himself with a dictionary*

Simon

"I do not have to forgive my enemies. I have had them all shot."
- Ramon Maria Narvaez

 

[Stella740pl]

deja vu all over again" - deja vu happened to someone yet one more time?

 

[Dimandja]

deja vu all over again"

French translation: "deja vu deja vu".

 

[Stella740pl]

Dimandja,

I guess, we can find similar examples in English, too. It's not an everyday use, I agree, but sometimes repetition can help to emphasize, to bring a point across more effectively. As for "deja vu deja vu", well, it happened to me.

 

[ESquared]

If you want to get *really* technical, it's

déjà vu

with acute and grave accents.

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It is better to have honor than a good reputation.
(Reputation is what other people think about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.)

 

[lespaul]

picky picky picky!!!!!

Leslie

 

[Dimandja]

I keep losing those accents, E. American keyboard, y'know.

I usually keep a healthy supply of accented letters on my desktop. But, now and then, the space has to be reclaimed for far more urgent endeavors.

 

[LFI]

Imaginary office scenario:

Worker 1: Remember yesterday, when I said I had déjà vu and then went on and on about it all morning?

Worker 2: How could I forget?

Worker 1: Well, I'm having that same feeling again!

Worker 2: Oh no! You mean...

Worker 1: Yes! I'm having déjà vu all over again!

Anyway, back to the question-at-hand, I frequently hear people refer to our office's Flexible Spending Account (FSA) as an "FSA Spending Account" which makes me wonder what the LONGEST re-expansion of an abbreviation might be. Certainly this one is in the running!

--Dave