#abbrevs

[coquelicoq]

KIDS! Is your great-grandfather texting in MORSE CODE?

More than 76% of old sailors use codes to keep their descendants from understanding their messages. Are you prepared?

.-../---/.-../ : Lots of Latitude

-.../-/.--/ : By The Water

-/-.../..../ : The Beautiful Horizon

.--/-/..-./ : Where’s The Fo’c’s’le?

../-../-.-/ : I’m Drowning, Kid

..-./..-./.../ : Fit For Swabbing

../--/..../---/ : It’s My Home Ocean

-.../.-./-.../ : Boat Ride, Baby!

../-../-.-./ : I’d Date (the) Captain

.-/-/--/ : Ahoy There, Matey!

-/..-./.--/ : These Foamy Waves

.../---/.../ : Sailing Off (into) Sunset

---/--/--./ : Ow, Matey! Goddammit

---/--/.--/ : Ooh, Matey! Whale!!

.../--/..../ : Samuel My Hero*

..-./--/.-../ : First Mate Larry**

.../-/..-./..-/ : Sexy Telegram For U

.-./---/..-./.-../ : Radio Out, Feeling Lonely

../-../--./.-/..-./ : I Don’t Get Amidships Frequently

.-../--/.-/---/ : Landlubber Mofos All Over

--./-/..-./---/ : (have a) Good Time Falling Overboard

../-.-./-.--/--/../ : Iceberg Coming, You’ll Manage It

*Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph

**Just a guy named Larry

[coquelicoq]

Je porterai cela à Paris à la fin de 9bre. (lettre de George Sand à Anténor Joly, 24 octobre 1845)

9bre=novembre. cute

[coquelicoq]

i just caught myself saying "it's not yet noon pm" but like it's never gonna be noon pm...noon is just m, there's no a or p about it. gonna be waiting a long time for noon to be post-itself.

[coquelicoq]

my favorite thing about jesus is that his middle name is fucking but his middle initial is H. waow......what a special guy

[coquelicoq]

i love acronyms. get abbreviated idiot

[coquelicoq]

tired of all this gender gatekeeping. what is a boy? what is a girl? who "qualifies" and by what "criteria" can one determine -- YAWN. first of all, who cares. secondly, gender essentialism is a fool's game in which the only "winners" are those too insecure and narrow-minded to see what they've lost. and finally, girl is actually just an acronym that stands for Girl In Real Life. hope this helps

[allthingslinguistic]

Why Are Your Fav Abbrevs Totes Legit Hard to Spell?

You've seen them: Legit. Jealz. Rad. Totes. Def. Obvs. Probs. Whatevs. Proj. Tomorrs. Ridics. Fav. Dece. But you may not have known that there's a word for them: abbrevs. (And abbrev is itself an abbrev, obvs.) Linguist Rebecca Starr points out that while there are some earlier abbrevs, like commish (from commissioner) from 1910 and delish from 1920, the current abbrev trend has been increasing since the mid-2000s.

I’m on Mental Floss talking about the legit linguistics of abbrevs: 

Perhaps the best part of abbrevs is how they intersect with other slang, like acronyms. Most of the time, you just add an s or a z to the end of the acronym without actually abbreving it at all, as in lols and omgz, but acronyms with w are special. The best known are BTdubs (from "by the way" via BTW), dubsTF (from WTF), and FTdubs (from "for the win" via FTW), but I also found people on Twitter using OMdubs ("on my way" via OMW), BMdubs (BMW, as in the car), and even one guy who uses FWIdubs ("for what it's worth").

The "dubs" abbrevs really put the lie to the idea that people abbrev just because it's easier, since all the w acronyms are actually shorter than their "dubs" versions.

[Read the rest.]

[slogany05]

I've actually heard most of these already - pretty funny video!