Guest guest Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Yes, ! I have mistaken one, of several things, until you just told me the right words for it; When people write "LOL". I have been wondering why people are saying loll all the time... Why are they "lolling"? Thank you for telling me it was "laugh out loud" Now me lolling :-) May you have fair wind and following seas.Helen Abbreviations (was: HFA ) As far as abbreviations, I find that I have a hard time shifting understanding from one to another. For example, "PT" has always meant "physical therapy" to me and I have the worst time reassociating "PT" to mean "physical training." Another one is "DNR". I seem to only understand "Do Not Resussitate" and have to rethink it to mean "Dept of Natural Resources" even in a sentence like "The DNR today reported that there was a rise in polution..." "OT" means occupational therapy to me and not "Old Testamint" or "Off Topic"Anyone else have mistaken abbreviations in their head?Other abbreviations take on their own meaning by themselves even without the underlying meaning. For me "LOL" means someone is laughing not specifically "laugh out loud." Where I used to work we had an abbreviation "1pp" which means one-per-page which is one test question on one page of paper (It was a report we had to create.). It took a long time to associate that one correctly.Anyone have other abbreviation "problems"?just curious. and the zoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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