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Packing a 45 · December 26th, 2011, 08:14 PM

I have no Military background and little experance with gun jargon and find myself expending too many brain cells trying too figure out Acronyms. Mod's can we get somethin going on this that can be added to, as I do not know much about computers, or the diffrence between Blogs,Post,threads,Tags.
Is it possible that responders can just add to this list with out entering a new tag,thred or post. Just punching keys and hope things work.
Thanks.
Packing

Acronyms Meaning History

1. BTW
2. CAVET
3. EDC
4. FB/SF
5. FSN
6. IMHO
7. IMO
8. LOL Lots of LUCK
9. LBR
10. NSNs
11. PITA
12. RTE
13. SAI Springfield Armory
14. Sei.
15. SEI
15. SHIF S**t Hits THE FAN
16. +1

fran604g · January 29th, 2012, 06:31 AM

I found something that should help you out...
http://thefiringline.com/Misc/library/TFL_Primer.htm

CAVman · January 29th, 2012, 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Packing a 45

I have no Military background and little experance with gun jargon and find myself expending too many brain cells trying too figure out Acronyms. Mod's can we get somethin going on this that can be added to, as I do not know much about computers, or the diffrence between Blogs,Post,threads,Tags.
Is it possible that responders can just add to this list with out entering a new tag,thred or post. Just punching keys and hope things work.
Thanks.
Packing

Acronyms Meaning History

1. BTW
2. CAVET
3. EDC
4. FB/SF
5. FSN
6. IMHO
7. IMO
8. LOL Lots of LUCK
9. LBR
10. NSNs
11. PITA
12. RTE
13. SAI Springfield Armory
14. Sei.
15. SEI
15. SHIF S**t Hits THE FAN
16. +1

Acronyms can definitely be over-used...
Some may have more than one meaning...
i.e.; #8. LOL...More often is used as 'Laugh Out Loud', not 'lots of luck'.
Personally I think that unless the Title of the Thread, or the Link or the context of the post makes it very clear, or the acronym is completely obvious, such as U.S. or G.I., it may be better to omit that acronym.
And when a poster wants to use the same acronym multiple times, just 'define' it the first time(Smith Enterprises-SEI)and then it will be clearer from then on.

YMHO
FWIW
YMMV

CAVman in WYoming

conditionone · February 3rd, 2012, 12:21 PM

I found this thread while looking for something else. thought it might be helpful to someone.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/

I had to look at this pretty often after first getting involved in gun forums, and some of them are quite amusing, especially when they can have more than one meaning.

Earthquake · February 3rd, 2012, 05:27 PM

I always like TANSTAAFL...
There Aint No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

Casey