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Do you say acronyms in your head

  • 21-08-2017 12:19pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 346 ✭✭


    Bored in work and thinking about this. When you see an acronym written down do you say the acronym or the words in your head when reading?

    For example when I see OP on here I always think/read/say in my head Original Poster rather than OP. So am I alone and have I wasted half my life thinking these words? :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭clintondaly


    Yes


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭Benjamin Buttons


    Naviq
    Not a very interesting question


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Acronyms for me. They are as much a part of speech and thought process as they are the written form. I'd never think "North Atlantic Treaty Organisation"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,846 ✭✭✭✭somesoldiers


    that's actually called an "initialism" but hey
    acronyms are pronounced in one like NASA, we don't say N.A.S.A if we did it would be an initialism


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Try saying Lysergic acid diethylamide every time you hear or read the letters LSD - doesn't work for me but I still know what LSD stands for.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,797 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    ROFL


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    ROFL

    FFS :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Greatest acronym ever

    WYSIWYG


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,961 ✭✭✭LionelNashe


    ROFL

    Always makes me think of:

    Rowlf_the_Dog.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,226 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    This thread is fubar.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,708 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    AFAIK I don't do this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭clintondaly


    R.O.T.F.L.B.T.C.D.I.C.A.J.T.T.W.A.D.B.S.I.H.P.W.T.R.H.I.T.S.B.K.A.B.A.Y.B


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,313 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    I convert them to words of their own by adding vowels as needed to help them roll off the tongue easier.

    For example: LPT -> Luppet

    Have you paid the luppet this year?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,787 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    I convert them to words of their own by adding vowels as needed to help them roll off the tongue easier.

    For example: LPT -> Luppet

    Have you paid the luppet this year?

    I say DNA as "Dnaaaaaah!"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I say 'acronym'.


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