Old Timer
 

I have noticed more and more what I guess are texting terms being used on the forums. This is fine if you text but confusing to us who do not. If you use these abbreviations or whatever just realize some of us old timers have no idea what you are saying. And frankly I am to old to learn a new language. Bill

From one geezer to another:)...amen brother!

From a person who was hired to teach and train on computer terms, I too can find it maddening.

Normal protocol suggests usage such as this (examples);

Not Normally Seen (NNS) / Junk that I shouldn't Buy (JTISB) etc., etc. or if you are going to use text forms.


Ed

Hi Bill, IMVHO you're quite right, LOL. Norm

Bill, Ron, you are correct in that sometimes I don't know what people are talking about! Abreviations etc. are here to stay though I would guess. I often run into them that I wonder? I am usually too lazy to ask what they are and just ignor them. oh well..a sign of the times..
I IM Ed in Iraq almost every day and it's useful to shorten typed speech. I am no typist so a hunt and peck system works for me..the shorter the better.
I don't know of any easy solution..people get into habits that a request to change them might not work!

Junk that I shouldn't Buy (JTISB) Man I have a ton of that!

I to have no idea in Hxxx how to decifer those abreviations

An on-line translator...:rockon: :rolleyes:

http://www.netlingo.com/acronyms.php


Had a low-rider Butt-Rocket fly past me on the freeway the other day. Four high school aged kids in it, all were texting including the driver. A State Trooper was one car behind them talking on his radio and giving them his undivided attention. I exited before the SHTF. I doubt that "Mom & Dad" appreciated the unexpected expenditure.

A good friend was rather surprised to receive a $1,200 phone texting bill the month after giving his teenage daughter her first I phone.

I limit my "new write" to POS, WTF, and REMF.

Some of us REMFs didn't have a choice, so cutting a little bit of slack would be appreciated. We did what we could.

Cripes! I even had to look up "REMF". Must be an Army thing?

Vietman, specifically. I don't think it is common military slang today...

Pogue is what A current vet I met used yesterday.

Not necessarily derogatory, though some do use it that way.

What is important to me is that somebody bothered to show up.

I will say that having an infantry MOS and SFQ'd plus 18 months actually carrying a weapon through the bush along the Cambodian border gives me a somewhat different perspective.
Close up personal experience with death at that level makes one appreciate being alive.
Knowing you still have months ahead and you could be next tends to make one a bit jumpy.

Glad its in the past, but I'd do it again.