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What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
#21
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 26, 2017 at 11:12 pm)Fireball Wrote:
(March 26, 2017 at 9:07 pm)Astreja Wrote: You heard that right:  If a doctor says "can't" or "won't" we have to type them as "cannot" or "will not."  If we get alphabet soup such as "ITP" we have to expand at least the first instance to "idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura."

Bolding mine. Does that complaint buff out? Angel  I've always spelled out an item, then put the acronym in parens, when I wrote technical documentation. I especially despise the use of buzzwords in technical literature, as I prefer to eschew verbal obfuscation. Big Grin

Generally if it's a simple phrase like "blood pressure" but the doctor is repeatedly saying "BP" I'll continue to spell it out, but with the more complex ones I do tend to give the acronym and use it in subsequent appearances.
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#22
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 26, 2017 at 11:15 pm)Astreja Wrote:
(March 26, 2017 at 11:12 pm)Fireball Wrote: Bolding mine. Does that complaint buff out? Angel  I've always spelled out an item, then put the acronym in parens, when I wrote technical documentation. I especially despise the use of buzzwords in technical literature, as I prefer to eschew verbal obfuscation. Big Grin

Generally if it's a simple phrase like "blood pressure" but the doctor is repeatedly saying "BP" I'll continue to spell it out, but with the more complex ones I do tend to give the acronym and use it in subsequent appearances.

Right! Saves a lot of time, once the acronym has been introduced. I worked awhile at a place where people made up names for components over time. A new person would come on the job and have to have what the "Bird Cage" was explained. Stupid, as the structure wasn't actually representative of a bird cage in any real way.

My favorite was a description of the bolt placement on how a machine was attached to the floor. There were three bolts- a bolt, the bolt diametrically opposed, and the last bolt, "non-diametrically opposed".  FFS, the guy never heard of "adjacent"? Dodgy  I guess he thought he was clever. He wasn't.
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#23
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 26, 2017 at 9:07 pm)Astreja Wrote:
(March 26, 2017 at 8:20 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: WT'F.

You heard that right:  If a doctor says "can't" or "won't" we have to type them as "cannot" or "will not."  If we get alphabet soup such as "ITP" we have to expand at least the first instance to "idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura."

Glad you typed that one out. I thought it was ittybitty titty pimples.
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#24
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
Coudln't care any less. That is; zero caring.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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#25
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 26, 2017 at 8:44 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: By now y'all'd've learned to deal with prevalence of contractions in the English language...

Idn't that the truth.

(March 27, 2017 at 7:18 am)mh.brewer Wrote:
(March 26, 2017 at 9:07 pm)Astreja Wrote: You heard that right:  If a doctor says "can't" or "won't" we have to type them as "cannot" or "will not."  If we get alphabet soup such as "ITP" we have to expand at least the first instance to "idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura."

Glad you typed that one out. I thought it was ittybitty titty pimples.

It still could be.  Tongue
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#26
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 28, 2017 at 6:56 am)Sal Wrote: Coudln't care any less. That is; zero caring.

I can see that...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#27
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
This thread. I just can't.....
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#28
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
Usn't know what to think.
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#29
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 28, 2017 at 11:10 am)Alex K Wrote:
(March 28, 2017 at 6:56 am)Sal Wrote: Coudln't care any less. That is; zero caring.

I can see that...
I even tried to squeeze in a semi-column.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman
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#30
RE: What are your thoughts on contractions when it comes to grammar?
(March 28, 2017 at 11:20 am)Whateverist Wrote: Usn't know what to think.

I for my part thinkn't anything.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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