Bleedin acronyms!!

[spamel]

I never did get 'em, and I feel that I'm missing out here!!

I have tried to figure out what EDC means, maybe it's the name of a company, maybe it does mean something important, MAYBE I'M THICKER THAN A WHALE OMELETTE!!

Please, will somebody shed some light on the more common acronyms used on this site, PLEASE?

Thankyou for your patience

:spam1:el

[Colin KC]

EDC = Every Day Carry;)

[Colin KC]

Any other acronyms/technical term (No Baggy, we know what a ricasso is thankyou:rolleyes: ) questions, please ask away:D

[spamel]

Thanks for the lightning fast reply, I would never have got that. :biggthump Are there anymore I should be aware of before this thread disappears forever?

[tomtom]

i sympothise mate.. it tooke me a long time to figure that one out!!

[Tvividr]

http://www.acronymfinder.com/ :D

[PS_Bond]

Google define:

[narsil]

TLA

[Andy]

Knife related abbreviations

EDC -Every Day Carry
FAK - First Aid Kit
SAK - Swiss Army Knife
FRN -Fibreglass Reinforced Nylon (used for lower budget handles but works well)
UKPK - The spyderco UK Pen Knife

Other abbreviations used on the forum

LOL - laughed out load
BCUK - bushcraft UK

I did a loads for BCUK but it's down and I wrote them on a different pc

[Chux]

SE - Serrated
PE - Plain edge (i.e. not serrated)
CE - Part serrated
HCTTD - Half cut thanks to Duvel

:D clear signature again :D

[spamel]

Andy, I think you have covered most if not all of the ones I've seen. It's just that the Army wish to abbreviate or acronym everything, they drive me mad:

KFS-Knife fork spoon!
And then there is MFS, MEI, PRE, CFT, BPFA, BCFT, the list is endless!!

Anyway, rant over and thanks very much :)

TTFN (Lets see who gets that one!)

[Andy]

ta ta for now

Hey I do computing which is full of the things as well as a radio operator in St Johns
The difficult bit comes when I move forums

I have to remember that HT does not stand for hard tail here
DS is not duty supervisor (or something on MBUK)

[Stuart Ackerman]

I was sent one from an old Army mate the other day... KEALSPSEO... anyone know it?

[trojanargus]

TLA

:lol:

three letter acronym?

:lol:

[narsil]

;)

[tomtom]

we are missing the most dead one of all.. SWAMBO

[Chux]

we are missing the most dead one of all.. SWAMBO
and also HWIGTBI which was once used (IIRC :D)

[stonehard]

How about these ones. I know Martyn will know as they are common medical terms.
GPFD got p*** fell down
GPGT Got p*** got thumped.
TF Bundy. Totally f***** but unfortunately not dead yet

[mojofilter]

and also HWIGTBI which was once used (IIRC :D)

Go on then Chux, enlighten me!

[Anarcus]

C'mon were waiting to LOL or even ROTFLMAO (laugh out loud/ Roll on the floor laughing my arse off)

[Tack]

Hi,
IIRC??????
Tack

[Danzo]

IIRC: If I recall correctly.

Danzo

[bagman]

Any other acronyms/technical term (No Baggy, we know what a ricasso is thankyou:rolleyes: )

:P just dont come to Banbury and get drunk matie :O

[keith_beef]

WOFT (as in "Go and WOFT the car for me").

What had me flummoxed, were small ads, along the lines of:
"CRK NIB, £600 ONO or swap for Mnandi, WHY"

Go on, Zack, tell us. WTF does KEALSPSEO mean?

KKK.

[Tack]

IIRC: If I recall correctly.

Danzo
Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Tack

[Danzo]

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Tack

Ahhhhhhhhh: And had he hknown he hwould hnot have hasked here!!!!!!!!!!

:D

Danzo

[ANDYLASER]

:love29:

[Basemetal]

For the pedantic amongst us...and there are more than a few...
An abbreviation is only an "acronym" if it creates a pronouncable word. NATO is an acronym, EDC isn't. Abbreviations that aren't acronyms are called "abbreviations".
Conveniently, the abbreviation "TLA" can stand for either...

:character Society for the Promulgation of Underused Smilies

[ANDYLASER]

So maybe EDC should be changed to DUK, then it would keep the acronym guys happy.

[Basemetal]

"DUK"? Daily...?

[narsil]

You can pronounce TLA...if you are a klingon ;)

[keith_beef]

You can pronounce TLA...if you are a klingon ;)


tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a' ?


KKK.

[ANDYLASER]

"DUK"? Daily...? use knife

[Danzo]

tlhIngan Hol Dajatlh'a' ?


KKK.

:love29:

Danzo

[keith_beef]

:love29:

Danzo


I'm after a new job, in Oregon, as an English/Klingon interpreter.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86550,00.html


KKK.

[Danzo]

I'm after a new job, in Oregon, as an English/Klingon interpreter.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86550,00.html


KKK.

Go for it, after all, a who else will know how well you speak it other than the loony?

:D

Danzo

[Andy]

well, sith text saved in a word (16bit) per letter there were enough combanations to have klingon without any problems... so they did, sadly I don't know how to get at them

[narsil]

well, sith text saved in a word (16bit) per letter there were enough combanations to have klingon without any problems... so they did, sadly I don't know how to get at them

Eh??

[Danzo]

well, sith text saved in a word (16bit) per letter there were enough combanations to have klingon without any problems... so they did, sadly I don't know how to get at them

Uh oh, it's a pound a pint at lunchtime now..........

;)

Danzo

[keith_beef]

well, sith text saved in a word (16bit) per letter there were enough combanations to have klingon without any problems... so they did, sadly I don't know how to get at them


losferwords :S :huh:

Unicode is fine for Klingon.


KKK.

[Andy]

since*

letters used to use 8bits per letter giving 256combanations which was plenty for the alphabet we use

some text now uses 16bit or 2bytes per letter. our letters just have 00000000 00100101 rather then 00100101

this gives 6536 combanations of letters. since they don't need them all the geeks sorting it out put klingon in as well

Fear not they've changed the drugs that I'm on and they are also double strength

[narsil]

Ah all becomes clear...no doubt it is possible to buy klingon keyboards

[Andy]

nope

you have to reprogram your own

it's klingonie or klingonese as well (I can't remember which, but in the episode involving tribbles they mention it)

[narsil]

...gutted...

[keith_beef]

Ah all becomes clear...no doubt it is possible to buy klingon keyboards

You don't need a special keyboard to type Klingon.

Most (well, almost all) Klingon text on the web is transliterated into latin characters anyway.

You can use proper Klingon fonts, if you really want, and use a program to convert (transliterate) keypresses from any keyboard to the codes for the glyphs in your Klingon font.

KKK.

[ANDYLASER]

I'm after a new job, in Oregon, as an English/Klingon interpreter.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86550,00.html


KKK.

Cant be many people in Oregon who speak English :rolleyes:

[PS_Bond]

some text now uses 16bit or 2bytes per letter. our letters just have 00000000 00100101 rather then 00100101


Oh, you'd think. But a CERTAIN organisation thinks that the "correct" way to do that is 00100101 00000000, despite what any other piddling standards (or indeed, other compilers) might suggest.

Gah. Wide characters. :mad:

[Danzo]

nope

you have to reprogram your own

it's klingonie or klingonese as well (I can't remember which, but in the episode involving tribbles they mention it)

'The Trouble with Tribbles'

I'm not enough of a geek to know the episode number.

But I think the language is now called 'Klingon' rather than some derivative.

Danzo

[Danzo]

Cant be many people in Oregon who speak English :rolleyes:

They speak Oregano. Great pizza chefs those lads.

:D

Danzo

[keith_beef]

Oh, you'd think. But a CERTAIN organisation thinks that the "correct" way to do that is 00100101 00000000, despite what any other piddling standards (or indeed, other compilers) might suggest.

Gah. Wide characters. :mad:

You mean the "Swift Appreciation Society"?,

SAS (to make it a TLA and drag the thread back on topic).

KKK.

[spamel]

OMG WTF has happened here??!! Its all gone Star Trek TNG here. Well, I'll just have to get it back on topic, won't I!!

As you can see, I've been brushing up on my TLA's!!

TTFN - a FLA? :S

[keith_beef]

They speak Oregano. Great pizza chefs those lads.

:D

Danzo

Or is it Oreganic, a very "back to nature" lot, those Oregonians.


KKK.

[Andy]

OMG WTF has happened here??!! Its all gone Star Trek TNG here.

TTFN - a FLA? :S


I think you'll find that trouble with tribbles is either Star Treck or Star treck DS9


Don't blame me for being like this, blame my DNA

[Danzo]

I think you'll find that trouble with tribbles is either Star Treck or Star treck DS9


Don't blame me for being like this, blame my DNA

I think you'll find that 'Star Treck' is a cheap Vietnamese import, Andy.

:rolleyes:

In what we purists call 'Star Trek' the Tribbles first appear in the original series in the episode I referred to.

;)

Danzo

[Andy]

your right

I've been told the you can "boldly go where no-one has gone before"

There was a bit about it in a book about the english language. It's not always wrong to split infinitives.

[keith_beef]

I think you'll find that 'Star Treck' is a cheap Vietnamese import, Andy.

:rolleyes:

In what we purists call 'Star Trek' the Tribbles first appear in the original series in the episode I referred to.

;)

Danzo


With a fat merchant who looks rather like Roy Kinnear, and also appeared in a comic biker gang film.

If you ever played a computer game called "Elite", there is a mission where you are offered a cargo of tribbles.

They start multiplying and risk filling up your ship. You have to fly dangerously close to a star so as to kill them off, and you end up with a cargo full of furs that you can sell at a wonderful profit.

At least one BB member describes himself as "mostly harmless"... so I know there's at least one more Elite player around.

KKK.

[Danzo]

your right

I've been told the you can "boldly go where no-one has gone before"

There was a bit about it in a book about the english language. It's not always wrong to split infinitives.

Respect.

:D

Danzo

[PS_Bond]

mself as "mostly harmless"... so I know there's at least one more Elite player around.


Or HHGttG fan, perhaps?

[keith_beef]

your right

I've been told the you can "boldly go where no-one has gone before"

There was a bit about it in a book about the english language. It's not always wrong to split infinitives.

It is not wrong to boldly split infinitives, any more than it is wrong to really want to write correctly.

In fact, the "split infinitive" is a myth, that was originated in the mid to late 19th century.

The word "to" is not really part of the infinitive, it is a kind of phattic marker; since English verbs have very little morphology, this marker is necessary to show the difference between the infinitive and certain finite parts of the verb.

German has a similar "marker" (zu) as has Dutch (te); in neither of these languages is it considered part of the verb proper.


KKK.

[keith_beef]

Or HHGttG fan, perhaps?

Ah, yes. Probably the rating of "mostly harmless" for a pilot in Elite came from the rating that was given to Earth.


KKK.

[galopede]

OK, there's an FLA that's been confusing me since I first found this site - what's a KITH?
Perhaps it's an abbrv rather than an FLA,who knows?

[PS_Bond]

Knife In The Hat

[Andy]

Mostly harmless was mee up until today

however tests have been carried out using normal people and the new result has now been put in it's place

[Stuart Ackerman]

keith beef...

" Go on, Zack, tell us. WTF does KEALSPSEO mean? "

Well, it all becomes clear in the military context....

Kill 'em all, let St Peter sort 'em out.

[Colin KC]

Peter, if you fancy cropping the Klingon out of the thread & make a new one, I'll make this one sticky for all to see;)

[keith_beef]

Peter, if you fancy cropping the Klingon out of the thread & make a new one, I'll make this one sticky for all to see;)

Cropping out, or wiping off?


KKK.

[Andy]

Peter, if you fancy cropping the Klingon out of the thread & make a new one, I'll make this one sticky for all to see;)


I have a little list

Knife related abbreviations

EDC - Every Day Carry
FAK - First Aid Kit
SAK - Swiss Army Knife
FRN - Fibreglass Reinforced Nylon (used for lower budget handles but works well)
UKPK - The spyderco UK Pen Knife
SE - Serrated
PE - Plain edge (i.e. not serrated)
CE - Part serrated
CRK - Chris Reeve Knife


Other abbreviations used on the forum

LOL - laughed out load
ROTFLMAO - Roll on the floor laughing my arse off
SWAMBO - She who must be obeyed
IIRC - If I remember correctly (or recall)
FYI - for your information

[PS_Bond]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_slang

[bigkev]

what about DILLIGAF................

[a6cjn]

what about DILLIGAF................

DILLIGAF Does It Look Like I Give A Flip (polite form)

Chris :)

[zorro]

what about DILLIGAF................

It's a bit late to go Dilligaffing now, isn't it? Lets wait till tomorrow morning when we can see what we're doing! :D

[JohnnyG]

Are there anymore I should be aware of before this thread disappears forever? Quote from (22/03/05)

Apparently no thread disappears forever on BB.....

It is kinda fun to look back a few years and see that the "seasoned" long term members here also started out, how shall i put it, well at the begining...good stuff and gas reading...;)

p.s.

[spamel]

Yes, it's been a long time. This thread is like one of my kids, nice to see it hasn't been run over by a car yet!

[TOM STRATTON]

BCUK is also a mispelling of BUCK......These guys would be glad to help you with anything or questions you ask..

[Bart West-VL.]

Glad this thread went back on topic, otherwise you would have been FUBAR after I was done with you all.

;)

[bigkev]

iv only just realised how old this thread is...... crikey.........

[Nick Steele]

Once you've cracked acronyms, it's time to move on the next part of the syllabus:

1337spaek.

[Garnett]

WTF - what the f-
FTW - Not what I though - an especially confused WTF, but actually "for the win", as in "Out of the Sebenza and the Bradley Alias, it's the Bradley FTW".