These are the people who in real life say “Jan” instead of “January.”
At least that can usually be understood from context. Acronyms and initialisms usually cannot unless you already know them.
Sounds like most conversations I had with cybersecurity people until I learned about NIST 800s, FIPS, CNSS, STIGs, etc.
This wouldn't make me blink.. Jan, Feb.. but if someone just said Mar for March I'd blink twice.
How about Thu for Thursday?
Apr for April :P
And Jun for June?
And K instead of OK
And “OK” instead of “I understand, thank you.”
Still, “k” is infinitely better than a thumbs up.
Hmm, how so? A thumbs up is more bytes, and thus more poignant.
OK is oll korrect
No, I'm talking specifically about case of reducing two letters to one.
okay
I literally just had a PM tell me "we will talk about that 'tom'". It left me confused for a few seconds. Is it really that hard to use a couple more syllables?
"Who tf is Tom?"
Apache Tomcat, a casual acquaintance of the local tomboy.
“My name is not Tom”
Prime Minister of what country?
Kinda reminding me of when you're autocompleting commands in a shell prompt.
people forget that many acronyms are context sensitive and/or audience sensitive. they just assume everyone across the world has the same shared life experience that they do.
Specifically the use of military jargon to describe consumer software