write in brackets (by the way)
WTF? And it’s not a one time thing either. They do it for every shortened phrase. IMO (In my opinion), G2G (got to go), LOL (laughing out loud), WTG (way to go), the list can go on, but it’s just so uuuuuugh.
What’s the point of shortening a common phrase when you’re just going to write it out anyway?! And by putting the shortened form and then writing down the long form, YOU’VE JUST LENGTHENED IT!!!
screams into a pillow
MRTTMSJ (Must… Resist… Temptation To Make… Smutty Joke…)
Yeah. It makes me wonder why people up in Maine always called the Bath Iron Works the BIW, when “Bath Iron Works” has fewer syllables.
Ya know?
Also… link or cite? Or are you talking about seeing this on e-mails and discussion boards in general? I can’t say I’ve noticed this a lot on the SDMB, but I agree with you that it is stupid to spell out acronyms.
BTW (by the way) you’re talking about parentheses, not brackets. Just FYI (for your information).
TTFN (ta ta for now).
Because that way we have to think about fewer letters.
WTF (White Toad Farts?)
I had the same feeling about commercials for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. It used to piss me off when they would continually say both. Just call the show Crime Scene Investigation if you are going to say both.
I haven’t heard this in a long time, but I still think about it when I see other commercials for CSI.
WGAF?
I think this is possibly a subset of one of my own pet peeves, which involves people who insist that they use their PIN number at the ATM machine.
ITISTETCTPWANFWTCAMF (I think it is to eliminate the confusion that people who are not familiar with common abbreviations might face)
OMGWTFBBQ WB 7UY?
I think that should clear it up.
That reminds me; I have to get my hot-water heater fixed.
WIWTKIHTFAFE. (What I want to know is how to fry a fried egg.)
It is called RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome)
I never understood what was so OMG or WTF about BBQ as to necessitate that particular acronym. Oh well, YMMV.
I’d rather see a screen full of acronyms than l337-speak any day of the week.
INOTUAA. TS (I’m never one to use acronyms anyway. They’re silly)
TFLOYASBAIATIAUTNTE. (The fourth letter of your acronym should be an I, and there is an unneeded T near the end.)
Although more commonly accepted grammer that “ATM machine” and “PIN number”, it still bothers me to see a number written as “36 (thirty-six).” As in:
Wallaby Troglodyte Frenchman is that?
tdn, it’s more common the other way around, and it’s done for a reason (which escapes me at the moment). I work at a law firm, and whenever numbers are written into documents, they’re written “words (number)”, as in “two (2)”. It’s proper to have the number written out, but the numerical representation is there for clarification. For really large numbers, it becomes much more apparent:
Five Hundred Eighty-Four Thousand Seven Hundred Seventeen Dollars and No Cents ($584,717.00).