Comments on: Seven Ways to Use Acronyms in Your Writing https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/ A Blog On Writing Wed, 29 Jan 2025 04:35:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128406 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 17:27:53 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128406 In reply to jamesr403.

I never heard this one, James! Hilarious, and I'm lol with Denise!

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128401 Mon, 07 Aug 2017 13:36:31 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128401 In reply to jamesr403.

lol

]]> By: jamesr403 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128396 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:44:10 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128396 In reply to dholcomb1.

LOL I know what you mean! True story. I started writing for money for a small ad agency when I was in college, switching from shelving books in the library to having a desk and there were secretaries! So, my first job was a brochure for a telecom. I closed by saying "From Nome to Tierra del Fuego, MetroCom (not their name) can meet your needs." The only edit I got back from the client was a note from the VP saying i shouldn't make up place names and to put something in place of "Tierra del Fuego." I'll never forget it.
Hope you get those ZZZZs.

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128395 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:37:29 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128395 Thanks, Wendy. I think there are a number of sayings that, even though they are in English, they don't translate well. When my husband and I went on a driving tour of New Zealand, we started seeing "BEWARE! Judder bar ahead." The signs got closer together. My husband kept looking for the equivalent of a military or biker bar that was so big and so rowdy the community need to be reminded it was there. We finally came to a sign warning "Judder bar" with an arrow point the the pavement. And the speed bump.

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128394 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:33:06 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128394 In reply to jamesr403.

Thanks, James. Be very afraid if I ever have to visit you in the hospital! I am so looking forward to setting P.R.I.S.M. free!

]]> By: Fae Rowen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128393 Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:31:25 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128393 In reply to dholcomb1.

Not confusing, Denise. I don't know most texting acronyms—I ask my younger friends!

]]> By: wendyleslie https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128388 Sat, 05 Aug 2017 14:49:59 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128388 For me here down-under - SMH is the Sydney Morning Herald. Haven't much of a clue of the others. I'm thinking they don't translate, transpose well even in English, or age-group perhaps.
Thanks for the article, Fay. 🙂

]]> By: Jenny Hansen https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128376 Fri, 04 Aug 2017 17:56:17 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128376 In reply to Laura Drake.

I'm totally game for that! Question - if I do it in Midland, can I at least be inside?

]]> By: Laura Drake https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128367 Fri, 04 Aug 2017 09:38:47 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128367 In reply to Jenny Hansen.

Hon, I have GOT to get you to a rodeo.

]]> By: dholcomb1 https://writersinthestormblog.com/2017/08/using-acronyms-in-your-writing/#comment-128366 Thu, 03 Aug 2017 23:41:33 +0000 https://writersinthestormblog.com/?p=32039#comment-128366 In reply to dholcomb1.

by user, I mean someone using the word, not a drug abuser.

Sorry, I'm stressed to the max, about to take DS2 to college, MIL on day 11 in the hospital following her cancer surgery, and DH is in NJ & NY to be with her. I need ZZZs.

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