# People who shorten words **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472 "2004-11-07T06:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/1 "2004-11-07T06:34:59Z")
I’m sure everyones gonna disagree with this, but what the hell. I can not stand randomly shortened words. Little cutsie ones like “pubbies” and “dems.” It pains me deep in my heart whenever I hear these. Or “sackies” for Sackajawea Dollars. I just really, really wish people wouldn’t do it. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/2 "2004-11-07T06:37:16Z")
Your real name better not be Vincent. ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/3 "2004-11-07T06:38:27Z")
Ok, **Vincent**. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/4 "2004-11-07T06:39:42Z")
No, I agree. What bugs me is adults who use baby-talk, like tummy, hubby, doggy, kitty, etc., which is sort of the same thing, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/5 "2004-11-07T06:41:13Z")
Sackajawea dollars exist, still? All I ever see are the old Susie Bs. ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/6 "2004-11-07T06:45:10Z")
I say tummy. And kitty. Then again, I’m a teenager, and also a girl, and I go to mush around cats, and I only use “tummy” as a nice way of referring to people’s excess stomach fat deposits, so yeah, I get wiggle room. _wiggles in it_ “Hubby,” however, deserves a Pit thread or five of its own. ---
**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/7 "2004-11-07T06:48:28Z")
ok lets start from the top of you’re vast array of witty insults that sting me like nettles. 1. My point was quite obviously not to shortening of names, but of words people shorten just to sound casual or whatever the hell the goal is there. 2. Vinnie is short for Vincezo not Vincent 3. Vinnie Paz is a rapper. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/8 "2004-11-07T06:53:27Z")
Total hijack, but very cool screenname **stately** ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/9 "2004-11-07T07:02:39Z")
> [@stately plump buck mulligan](#): > > I say tummy. And kitty. Then again, I’m a teenager, and also a girl, and I go to mush around cats, and I only use “tummy” as a nice way of referring to people’s excess stomach fat deposits, so yeah, I get wiggle room. _wiggles in it_ I bet when you write, you dot your i’s with little flowers, don’t you? :vomiting smilie: ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/10 "2004-11-07T07:11:41Z")
**Finnie** : Likewise to you, my brother! Cue warm embrace. **blowero** : Hey, fuck you. I do not. I dot them with hearts… the _j’s_ I dot with flowers. Buttmunch. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/11 "2004-11-07T07:34:42Z")
Coming from adults, tummy is an abomination. Belly is worse. Even worse are cutesy little words for genitalia or bodily or sexual functions. Can we just grow up, already. Saying the words vagina or urine isn’t going to make your tongue fall out of your head. Oh, and **stately** , you rock my world. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/12 "2004-11-07T07:50:49Z")
Well, as long as everyone else is doin’ it, big ups to Mulligan. TeaElle? Belly? You have a problem with belly? That’s tame, and in some cases descriptive (i.e. belly shirt etc) the real baby-talk problem I have is the public baby-talk between couples (i.e. hubby, etc.) Yeah, perhaps the shortcut words for genitalia are troublesome, but when things get, ahem, heated, the last thing I want is my paramour whispering in my ear, with that bedroom voice is “place your fingers in my vagina” that’s just wrong. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/13 "2004-11-07T08:42:36Z")
How is “belly” baby-talk? What are you thinking that it’s short for? ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/14 "2004-11-07T08:49:09Z")
> [@TeaElle](#): > > Oh, and **stately** , you rock my world. huh? ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/15 "2004-11-07T08:57:20Z")
**TL** : Fanks! **bjockey** : Respect, blood. [Belly?](http://home.hetnet.nl/~motinni/guest/Guest-%20Mr.Belvedere.html) ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/16 "2004-11-07T09:02:24Z")
Seriously, what’s the mutual admiration society all about? Did I miss something? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/17 "2004-11-07T09:03:48Z")
I actually think that ‘tummy’ can be kinda cute, when spoken by a femme. As **button** alludes to,“fellate me until I reach orgasm and ejacule in your mouth.” just doesn’t… fit. (or: thank God for pussy) **Stately** : A warm embrace of electrons through the vast aether of cyberspace, brings tears to my eyes ~tears~ \<—see, tears. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/18 "2004-11-07T09:06:55Z")
> [@blowero](#): > > Seriously, what’s the mutual admiration society all about? Did I miss something? Well obviously there was a steamy tryst replete with satin sheets and candles. (but now that you mention it, I too am curious) ---
**Author:** ![stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/858c86/32.png) [@stately\_plump\_buck\_mulligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stately_plump_buck_mulligan)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/19 "2004-11-07T09:08:10Z")
**blowero** , I do not know, but I do know not to protest. If I can find a little admiration in the Pit of all places, who am I to turn it out into the cold? **Finster** , stop, you’re getting tildes on my blouse. > [@](#): > > just doesn’t… fit. Heh. heh. heh. heh. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472/20 "2004-11-07T09:17:09Z")
> [@finster](#): > > Flip you. Flip you for real. **Stately** : On your blouse? Well… at least I didn’t get any on your blue dress. ~rimshot~ [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-who-shorten-words/273472.md?page=2)