When acronyms attack!
coil
Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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The Following is an Excerpt from the Soon-To-Be-Released Manual!!!! Not really.
"Now, as a Lvl2, it's your job to get your team RPs by putting up RTs. Now, putting up an RT isn't a simple affair; you'll want to protect it in case the dude in the CC drops an HMG and some HA in the MS for a grunt just out of the IP and tells him to go hunt you down. To prevent wasting the precious RPs spent to build the RT, you'll want to also put up at least one DC and two or three OCs to defend it. An SC could help, as well, pinpointing the marine in HS for your allies. Just hope you get all this D up before the HMG-carrying HA marine shows up, 'cause otherwise he'll make short work of your OCs and your RT, and you'll probably end up KIA."
This has been an NS PSA brought to you by Robin Williams.
<i>"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Cause of the leaks to the VC, he could end up MIA and then we'd all be put out in KP." - Robin Williams,</i> Good Morning Vietnam
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"Now, as a Lvl2, it's your job to get your team RPs by putting up RTs. Now, putting up an RT isn't a simple affair; you'll want to protect it in case the dude in the CC drops an HMG and some HA in the MS for a grunt just out of the IP and tells him to go hunt you down. To prevent wasting the precious RPs spent to build the RT, you'll want to also put up at least one DC and two or three OCs to defend it. An SC could help, as well, pinpointing the marine in HS for your allies. Just hope you get all this D up before the HMG-carrying HA marine shows up, 'cause otherwise he'll make short work of your OCs and your RT, and you'll probably end up KIA."
This has been an NS PSA brought to you by Robin Williams.
<i>"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the VP is such a VIP, shouldn't we keep the PC on the QT? Cause of the leaks to the VC, he could end up MIA and then we'd all be put out in KP." - Robin Williams,</i> Good Morning Vietnam
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/me fails
im gonna go sit in the corner now
In the New Scientist a while ago they had a long running series of correspondence on what they called RAS Syndrome (that is, Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome), where the last letter of the acronym is still spoken, effectively meaning you said it twice. For example:
- ATM Machines (Automatic Teller Machines Machines)
- PIN Number (Personal Identification Number Number)
- ITN News (Independent Televison News News)
- NCP Car Parks (National Car Parks Car Parks) - double there
- LCD Display (Liquid Crystal Display Display)
- RAM Memory (Random Access Memory Memory)
and so on. Just thought you may be interested (anyone want to submit some acronyms of their own)?
P.e., a 'RVGE' (Raufutter verzehrende Großvieheinheit = Raw feed consuming Cattle Unit) was how they called a ... cow.
Where is WTF? He/she seems to be the expert in this field. :-D
--Scythe--
For example, HUD could be considered an acronym, but DNS could not.
Nudge nudge.
--Scythe--
'ROFL'.