{"id":9,"date":"2005-05-11T20:04:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-11T17:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/04\/11\/more-fanlistings"},"modified":"2010-08-10T20:17:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T17:17:04","slug":"speaking-in-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2005\/05\/11\/speaking-in-letters","title":{"rendered":"Speaking in letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"What would it feel like\">WWIFL<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"if we all wrote or talked with acronyms\">IWAWOTWA<\/abbr>? <abbr title=\"It would require standardised acronyms\">IWRSA<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"because otherwise no one would understand one another\">BONOWUOA<\/abbr>. <abbr title=\"My professors seem to like mysterious acronyms\">MPSTLMA<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"and ever since the freshman year\">AESTFY<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"we've needed a mental dictionary\">WNAMD<\/abbr>. <abbr title=\"The only thing is\">TOTI<\/abbr>, <abbr title=\"nobody ever bothered to give us the keywords\">NEBTGUTK<\/abbr>. <abbr title=\"Now that I'm studying for an exam on dialogue modelling\">NTISFAEODM<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"I'm constantly scratching my head\">ICSMH<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"trying to remember what each group of letters stood for\">TTRWEGOLSF<\/abbr>. *<abbr title=\"sigh\">S<\/abbr>*<\/p>\n<p>(To demolish this one-of-a-kind reading experience and make my hard work a complete waste of my time <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_wink.gif\" alt=\";)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> go to the post&#8217;s <!--permalink:9:individual page-->.)<\/p>\n<p><!--show=single--><small>What would it feel like if we all wrote or talked with acronyms? It would require standardised acronyms because otherwise no one would understand one another. My professors seem to like mysterious acronyms and ever since the freshman year we&#8217;ve needed a mental dictionary. The only thing is nobody ever bothered to give us the keywords. Now that I&#8217;m studying for an exam on dialogue modelling I&#8217;m constantly scratching my head trying to remember what each group of letters stood for. *sigh*<\/small><!--\/show--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWIFL IWAWOTWA? IWRSA BONOWUOA. MPSTLMA, AESTFY WNAMD. TOTI, NEBTGUTK. NTISFAEODM ICSMH TTRWEGOLSF. *S* (To demolish this one-of-a-kind reading experience and make my hard work a complete waste of my time go to the post&#8217;s .) What would it feel like if we all wrote or talked with acronyms? It would require standardised acronyms because otherwise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}