SpottedLion
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I always thought TFW was a typo of FTW. Most of the acronyms go over my head, so I just make sure to say them totally seriously when reading out loud. Now nobody knows what the sender said!
For SMS I don't mind, because you need to fit into 160 (140 if you're Google Voice SMS) bytes else be broken and sent in random order or thrown away entirely. Plus you tend to need to write it quickly. It's a telegram where you pay by the packet, so use as few packets as possible. Almost every other such use of acronyms in place of the phrase is gratuitous and annoying.
(Really, though. SMS shortenings are heavily influenced by telegrams, where cost was determined by characters. With the advent of message fee independent of length, acronyms are more suitable for saving typing in specialized messages. Try VOP instead of "Virtual Operation" or SAP instead of "System Area Pointer" or RADAR instead of "Radio Detection And Ranging". Plus, try and find 10 people that know what SMS (or RADAR) stands for without looking it up first. (I had to look up RADAR to write this, and have looked up SMS multiple times and forgotten multiple times.))
I got a good kick out of it, especially how it decodes into Latin-1.
I would think robots would pick a more suitable symbol format than linear binary. Probably QAM. I know of many robots that use audible spectrum FM with time-division multiplexing.
I always thought TFW was a typo of FTW. Most of the acronyms go over my head, so I just make sure to say them totally seriously when reading out loud. Now nobody knows what the sender said!
For SMS I don't mind, because you need to fit into 160 (140 if you're Google Voice SMS) bytes else be broken and sent in random order or thrown away entirely. Plus you tend to need to write it quickly. It's a telegram where you pay by the packet, so use as few packets as possible. Almost every other such use of acronyms in place of the phrase is gratuitous and annoying.
(Really, though. SMS shortenings are heavily influenced by telegrams, where cost was determined by characters. With the advent of message fee independent of length, acronyms are more suitable for saving typing in specialized messages. Try VOP instead of "Virtual Operation" or SAP instead of "System Area Pointer" or RADAR instead of "Radio Detection And Ranging". Plus, try and find 10 people that know what SMS (or RADAR) stands for without looking it up first. (I had to look up RADAR to write this, and have looked up SMS multiple times and forgotten multiple times.))
brabbit1987 said:Ya, but jokes are suppose to be funny ... right?
I got a good kick out of it, especially how it decodes into Latin-1.
I would think robots would pick a more suitable symbol format than linear binary. Probably QAM. I know of many robots that use audible spectrum FM with time-division multiplexing.