“Amaze Another Person With Your Grasp Of Acronyms”
Whenever I think of people that abuse acronyms I always think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqqjEeWP9Y
I am always impressed confused when people talk to me using acronyms as if I am supposed to understand everything. Perhaps it was all those years I spent teaching math to some very disinterested college freshman, but I was never one to assume that someone would understand an acronym unless I said the words first and then used the acronym later.
Oh, and I also enjoy having conversations with people that use an acronym and then get frustrated when you ask them what it stands for.
“So, I was using my PSP last night…”
“Um, PSP? As in Paint Shop Pro?”
“No, you moron, my Product Service Plan for my PlayStation Portable.”
So now I find myself taking mental notes whenever I hear someone using acronyms. I start sizing up the conversation to see if they are using it to save time (like a doctor in an emergency room) or if they are doing it because they don’t know what they are talking about and are trying to mask their inability by dazzling me with acronyms that they have heard mentioned previously.
So, today’s question is: What is your favorite acronym?
I would like to say the winner gets a free t-shirt, but I was raised to believe it is wrong to judge others, unless you are a judge, and then it is okay to think you are better than the rest.