Having Fun _Saying Words_ in Your Community
I abhor abbreviations - because the things they stand for are more stimulating & because mouthing letters (not words) slowly erases brains - buries the referent till you don't know what you're saying anymore. Words are pictures = sensuality = automatic memory cache. Letter codes estrange the symbols.
Take PDQ (a filling station in America): Once you start calling it Pretty Dern Quick, or Pounds of Duds & Quacks instead, it makes a picture imprint on your brain (stimulation!), aids memory, and is more fun to talk about in your community.
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It's not the writing out of P D Q which I contest (I do recognise the time-saving aspect): It's the saying the letter names three in a row: "Pee Dee Queue" and other bland, meaningless (or misleading!) sounds.
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