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re: For us old folks - born in the 1900s

I was borm in 83.  I have no clue what some of this stuff means.  But I went to lunch with a group of my old girlfriends, and one of them recongnized the waiter from somewhere.  She asked him where he was from, they figured it out, he said "I used to date so-and-so, did you know her."  My friend says, "OMG, she was my BFF, LOL!"  

I wanted to crawl under the table.  He looked at her like she was mentally handicapped.  

I just don't get all the abbreviations.  But in my work, I love that we call all our Senior Technical Directors, STD's.  When someone is talking about their STD at the table during lunch hour, usually you can look around and find someone making a disgusted face while trying to listen in to see if that person is really talking about their STD over a cobb salad.

Posted by MandyE-worth    Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:39 PM

re: For us old folks - born in the 1900s

Also I was born in 83.

Not borm.  I looked up Borm to see if that is actually a real word, and google says:

BORM is a full service engineering firm offering Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Engineering services for Residential and Commercial projects.

I was definitely not that in 83.  Hehe!!!

Posted by MandyE-worth    Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:42 PM

re: For us old folks - born in the 1900s

I was born in 1978.  I HATE the trend of the texting language.  I refuse to abbreviate.  Yup, I type out husband, don't ever use "DH" - mainly because he's rarely a "dear" (ha ha).  I hate this on the Nest boards...the term BD (baby dancing) is just so ridiculous, as is BB (which somehow is meant to stand for breasts...huh?)  

I admit, we did probably start the whole trend with the BFFs and other such shortenings, but it's gotten out of hand!  Now things are abbreviated that previously took no time at all to write anyway, like "ur"...seriously, adding the y and the o is not hard!!!!!

Posted by edmo    Wednesday, March 05, 2008 9:56 AM

re: For us old folks - born in the 1900s

I feel some dumb on The Nest sometimes because of all of the abbreviations!  It took me well over a year to learn that F/U was follow up instead of...the other thing.  XD  I also never us DH or really any of the other common ones because I feel better typing out "My husband" instead.  I don't know, I just don't like them that much.  I use lol, of course, but not too much other than that...

Posted by Choensa    Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:35 PM

re: For us old folks - born in the 1900s

I use DH a lot, but once I post enough, I will probably just start saying Matt and I'll assume everyone will know that this Matt guy that keeps pissing me off is my husband :D

Posted by MandyE-worth    Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:54 PM