Thank you thank you thank you!
And to add: Responding to someones request for information, or for what something stands for, with “Google it”, is just plain disrespectful or lazy.
Text speak as many people call it today has been around for over 100 years. It goes back to teletype operators using shorthand to communicate to each other. And you can go back even further to telegraph where telegraph operators would send each other messages.
When i told my DIL the army trained me in teletype repair, she said “Whats a teletype?”
Ive never been a joiner type.
Now that’s ironic!
I’m on social media, I don’t have a Facebook account either, but Car Talk qualifies as social media.
I will admit though when i was 7 or 8 my dad dragged a kid in downtown Duluth. Kid had about a 51 chevy and we had the 54 Ford, V8, ohv. Left the kid in the dust. I think it would do 90 in second gear. I thought my dad should cool down a little but he was not someone to trifle with. I never challenged him except that time i didnt want to go to Sunday school and he caught me. I went. Kathy was in my class though so dad was right.
Cartalk is technically NOT a social media platform. It’s a forum of people with common interests. They do differ.
I use to have a ttiktok account when my kids were younger. But I haven’t used them in years (maybe a decade).
Sleeper cars: In the 60s factory sleeper cars: 427 Biscayne 2 dr sedans, 413/440 Plymouth Savoys, I looked at an ex-Highway Patrol 66 Galaxy(?) 2 door with a 428. Of corse car guys knew what they were.
Text speak: Military letterhead paper incorporated a form of that. Under the letterhead had:
To:
From:
RE:
RE meant Regarding,
We were taught when using any acronym, which is also a form of what is now known as text speak, in the first use, spell it out in parentheses the full phrase, such as: AKA (also known as). My guess a lot of text speak comes from the older phones that did not have keyboards, but used multiple pushes os a number to get the letter you wanted.
Funny, how some of those that complain about someone using acronyms, often use them theirselves…
When I 1st got on Car Talk, I had to google bil, sil etc etc cause it was used quite often and I had no idea what it was…
But you did care enough to post about it…
My post was mainly being Sarcastic, as the member that requested for me to wright it out, is the same member that has often told you (Chris) and many others to Google it or check Google, etc etc when a question has been asked… And BTW, you use acronyms as well…
I think to some point everybody on here uses acronyms… TPMS, MPG, MPH, RPM, and others… Acronyms are a part of life…
Who decides, or better yet, where is the list of approved acronyms that are allowed on this and other forums…
Context: those are all automotive related, most people, even that don’t work on vehicles, should know the majority of them.
But when I read “SO”, “BIL” “SIL”, “DIL” etc used to indicate family members, I draw a line. Significant other, daughter-in-law, should be typed out, if anything to reduce, on others, the mental burden of deciphering an alphabet soup post full of acronyms. The same goes for by-the-way, hope-this-helps, and for what it’s worth.
If you should hear me complain that folks “don’t speak English anymore”, now you know what I’m talking about..!
The problem with acronyms is the ones people use that is industry specific. I used them all the time in the software engineering field and unless you were a software engineer, you’d have no idea what I was talking about.
Perfectly understood.
My gripe is with casual abbreviations, such as “HBD”.
Don’t even both to wish me a HAPPY BIRTHDAY if you’re too lazy to type it in full.
A sil is the horizontal piece at the bottom of a window, a dil is a type of pickle
Yeah i know its confusing. The daughter in law part was not a significant part though. I always used “K” which means contract. Usually here though it means thousand. I can understand how the journalist got confused and referred to WWII as world war eleven. As told by the famous Stan Evens, but Volvo wouldnt know him either.
I LOATHE the use of “k” for OK
Texter A: “I’ll meet you at the bar around seven”
Texter B: “k!”
Have we as a society really stooped that low?
Me too:
They don’t teach Roman numerals in the schools any more, let alone cursive writing.
WW eleven??? Really??? I totally bombed (pun intended) in school and still knew how many World War’s we have had… gezzz
When did they start teaching that we had more than 2 World Wars, I mean we would have had to of had WW3 through WW10 before we had WW “11”… I guess they don’t teach History anymore either…
How will kids keep track of Super Bowls?
They’re taking clocks and the cursive writing charts off the walls in classrooms.
What are kids learning in school any more?
Minnesota senator. You will have to research that, we don’t discuss war here.