Acronym Speak

Today I sat in on a meeting about USCG training and qualifications that went like this:

“Why doesn’t the application cover the J?”

“Because they program to the 3710.”

“So we need to submit a CG22 to change it.”

“Are we sure we only want the BA and DM updated?”

“We can follow the other quals with a DSS Report until this is all resolved with the OCS release in January.”

“We still have the MSO to consider.”

“That’s a new REQ, so we’ll need a new SCR submitted to the RM Team. If we get it in this morning we might get it on the CCB this afternoon.”

This is acronym speak is how real-world business people talk in just about every professional work envrionment I’ve ever been a part of. So when you grammar-nazis begrieve us Netizens our LOLs, OMGs, WYSIWYGs, WTFs, SNAFUs and the like for destroying the english language, you are just being silly.

Sincerely,

ry