it occurs to me that I've been saying fack longer than I've been saying you-are-ell, maybe that has something to do with my attitude towards them being different.
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Nov 06, 2009 3:12:42 pm PST #17666 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Zenkitty - Nov 06, 2009 3:15:13 pm PST #17667 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
I've always pronounced SQL as squirrel. In my head.
-t - Nov 06, 2009 3:15:48 pm PST #17668 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
We have sequel servers. In which we run ess-queue-ell. I'm not sure if the sequel server is actually the SQL server and the dbas use both in a single sentence.
Yup, DH uses them interchangeably. I don't think he notices that he switches back and forth.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2009 3:17:26 pm PST #17669 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Sometimes I notice when I switch. Usually I try to say the letters but often laziness wins out.
sarameg - Nov 06, 2009 3:18:26 pm PST #17670 of 30001
FAQ is fack.
Work is very very self-devised acronym heavy. Some are pronounced like letters, some spoken as words. Half the terms I use, I have no idea what they stand for. And neither does anyone else. Once upon a time, the new employee handbook came with a list of acronyms and what they stood for. They ditched it somewhere around the point it got to 10 single spaced, two-sided pages. It's crackers. They give Quakers a run for the money on acronyms.
tommyrot - Nov 06, 2009 3:19:27 pm PST #17671 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
NASA is still the acronym king, right?
eta: Or is it the military?
sarameg - Nov 06, 2009 3:22:46 pm PST #17672 of 30001
I suspect the military's acronyms creep into daily speech more than NASA's, but within a professional setting, they're neck and neck.
NoiseDesign - Nov 06, 2009 3:24:19 pm PST #17673 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
Disney is frighteningly acronym heavy internally. All the resorts and properties are referred to by three letter acronyms. Disneyland Resort is DLR, Tokyo Disney Sea is TDS, I still almost always say DCA instead of Disneys California Adventure. Imaginering is WDI. Even the attractions get them. When I was working on Space Mountain the official designation was SPAC but most of us like to use SPAM.
NoiseDesign - Nov 06, 2009 3:26:20 pm PST #17674 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
Post Toasties
I now remember that when I got hired at Disney in the 90's part of my hiring package was a mutilpage document that a listing of the most common company acronyms and their meanings.
§ ita § - Nov 06, 2009 3:43:18 pm PST #17675 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My boss used SCON in a document the other day, and I googled it and decided it meant software consolidation, but that didn't entirely make sense in context, so I asked.
He couldn't tell me what it meant, just where it was used and that it was common int he company. I replaced the line in the project status report with one I understood, in case anyone asked.
And of course I had no idea how to say it, so I just pointed at it onscreen. Not my brightest moment at the new job.