Notice that it's easy to invent new abbreviations but hard to make up new pictograms.
RCD, or County Down, the two common abbreviations, has an unrivaled and incredibly beautiful setting.
Am I using too many abbreviations in this post and starting to sound like a teenager?
Undeterred, The Economist would like to draw attention to a new shortage: of acronyms and abbreviations.
Lol, ttfn, brb are just a few abbreviations which have skyrocketed in use over the last few years.
Email-writers have leaned heavily for decades on abbreviations, which suit this quick-and-casual medium.
Medieval language is dense with abbreviations, because writing material was expensive and books could be published only by copying.
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has suggestions for making abbreviations clearer, too.
But the extensive use of jargon, abbreviations and obscure slang can make it hard for computers to figure out what people are saying.
While learning American idioms has always been challenging, texting, email and social networks have generated a tidal wave of new slang and abbreviations in English.
Using initials and abbreviations and understanding phonetics and rhymes are part of texting - but they are also part of successful reading and spelling development, they say.
Abbreviations and fragments are a language's normal response to stress.
When the young members of Generation-i use their phones to send text messages, the small keyboards make typing awkward and abbreviations even more important: "b4n" (bye for now), "cu" (see you).
Coyle, his co-author, said that when he first began talking to Hamilton for "The Secret Race, " Hamilton's answers came so slowly he could transcribe every word and comma easily, by hand, with no abbreviations.
As many have said, the language trend that first started with email and later text messaging has been to use more abbreviations, and even symbols (emoticons or smiley faces) to convey ideas, emotions or context.
The major objective of this joint effort is for UNESCO to provide assistance to its Member States by creating a reference table of country names and abbreviations for countries whose official languages are based on Cyrillic script.
This is an interim report, based on a year-long study of 63 pupils in England, with the final report expected next year, but so far researchers have not found a negative association between using text abbreviations and literacy skills.
Although many publicly-traded entities still use abbreviations of their names as ticker symbols, some companies have chosen to use theirs as marketing tools by picking symbols that form a word related to their business or convey an action or idea.
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