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How common are acronyms in your line of work?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:05 am
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:05 am
When I worked in finance if someone were to walk in on an office conversation I doubt they would have any idea what we were talking about because acronyms were rampant. I also know they were rampant in the military and are very common in police work. How often are acronyms used in your line of work and if a person not in your field could listen in on an office conversation would they have any idea what you were talking about?
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:06 am to DanTiger
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rampant.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:07 am to DanTiger
Oil and Gas (Pipelines). We use alot of military acronyms along with alot of drug references. We also use military time on the operations side.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:07 am to DanTiger
Used all the time and when I first started here I had no fricking clue what half the stuff they were talking about
Got most of them by now
And the average person would probably have no idea what any of them meant
Got most of them by now
And the average person would probably have no idea what any of them meant
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:07 am to DanTiger
I can't give a percentage..we use a handful in certain conversation but overall probably not THAT many.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:08 am to DanTiger
I do environmental consulting for the O&G industry. Acronyms are rampant. It's absurd. Mainly government created acronyms though.
EPA, LDEQ, TCEQ, TRRC, PBR, GHG, eGGRT, EDMS, etc...
EPA, LDEQ, TCEQ, TRRC, PBR, GHG, eGGRT, EDMS, etc...
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:08 am to DanTiger
Too many
PDAS
ELL
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ADHD
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SPED
That is the basic. These gay female teachers come up with so many stupid acronyms that you talk in code. Making learning more confusing. You guys are right, its the lazy teachers fault!
PDAS
ELL
SS
ADHD
ADD
SPED
That is the basic. These gay female teachers come up with so many stupid acronyms that you talk in code. Making learning more confusing. You guys are right, its the lazy teachers fault!
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:10 am to DanTiger
I'm in the environmental field and we probably use almost as many acronyms as the military.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:10 am to DanTiger
Too numerous to count
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:12 am to DanTiger
There are so many acronyms in the military, so that even within each service each acronym may have two or three meanings! You really must know the context of whomever's speaking to decipher their speech... 
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:12 am to DanTiger
I work in chemical R&D, so every other word is an acronym. We use them to describe chemicals, processes, specs, equipment, departments... Even though it's relatively tame stuff I doubt anyone would have a clue what we're talking about.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:13 am to DanTiger
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:14 am to DanTiger
I don't really use a lot of acronyms, but I use a lot of initialisms, which is what most people in this thread are referring to.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:17 am to DanTiger
Beyond rampant
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:17 am to DanTiger
quote:
rampant
Very. I work in HIS and there are acronyms for everything. Hell the name of my field is an acronym, and so is my speciality (HIM). It takes a little while to catch on to the meanings of everything, but once you do it isn't so bad.
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 10:20 am
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:18 am to DanTiger
Very common unfortunately.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:19 am to DanTiger
487 as of the last time our acronym list was updated. 
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:27 am to DanTiger
In O&G, we use our TLAs on the reg.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:27 am to DanTiger
You talking about jargon, because I'm pretty sure every industry has jargon that outsiders wouldn't understand.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 10:27 am to DanTiger
insane amount of acronyms used in my profession
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