Do you speak in acronyms and abbreviations? Neither do I.

Today's Chuckle

When I arrived in Vietnam during the war there, I was equipped with all that I needed to survive. Jungle fatigues. M16 rifle. Steel helmet. Flak Vest. Anti-malarial pills. A MACV Phrase Card. The pills didn't work. I contracted malaria. The MACV Phrase Card, purportedly intended to help me communicate with Vietnamese-speaking civilians didn't perform much better. Indeed, their speech was no more comprehensible than the text messages that I receive on my cell phone today.

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Be of good cheer. Help is available. Just bookmark AcronymFinder.com. It defines more than 4 million acronyms and abbreviations. Of course many of these may represent more than one word or phrase in much the same way that words and phrases may have more than one meaning. Just look up the word “frog” in the dictionary and you'll find more than twenty-seven options. Thus, “The ABBR for ABBR is ABBR”. Go ahead, decipher that.

Imagine the potential that your Tweets will have once you become adept with acronyms and abbreviations. Each 140 character Tweet built from acronyms and abbreviations averaging four characters (including a trailing space) would contain 35 words. I can't wait to amaze my children with my new found “skill”.