harmie
Everything I start trying to do is always disguised and well hidden in acronyms! I would like to know when this started. I would bet that the Military or Medical field are the culprits here.
It has become so common to use acronyms, that you really have to know the specified topic very well to be able to follow anything said.
The Military invented the Internet and probably had acronyms for it! NASA is one of the first I can remember as a child, but now it is so common that every Business in the spectrum uses them.
I fear that if our country survives for another 100 years, we will not be able to speak in an intelligent manner, but have acronyms for : "Hello. How are you today"? will become "Howdy Do" like the old folks from my Appalachian Mountains Heritage used when I was a child. However it would more likely be HD! Hard Drive or Howdy do?
I am trying to study the Microsoft Volume License test and if not for all the acronyms, it would be much easier! I have to pause and look it up for the computer lingo. Imagine trying to follow two or three doctors in a serious medical conversation! You would think they were speaking a foreign language!
That is where I am with computers-a foreign, lazy, language that is like the old short handwriting secretaries used years ago. They could read it, but you or I wouldn't be able to read a line. With computers being fairly new, I would like to see what acronyms will evolve to in the future! You won't know if a Hum V is a vehicle or a Virtual Computer sound disorder!
