Sometimes I like abbreviating things. (So you'd think I'd be "down with" the latest internet slang, LOL! Unfortunately I don't know what most of it means.)
Rach and I used to habitually refer to a certain hymn as "F.T.B.O.T.E." [That's Rachael, not Rachmaninoff. Abbreviating has its perils.] Sam, bless him, continues to delight me with the way he abbreviates as well. Some of our standards:
- What on earth="What on E.?"
- Pacifier="Pacifee" or "Fee"
- Aged parent (an affectionate title)="Aged P." (via P.G. Wodehouse, see also "Eggs and B.")
- Egg McMuffins="Egg McMees"
- Pillow=Pilaf (?)
- Camera="tramvai" (not an abbreviation . . . hmm)
I shouldn't read you when I can't sleep. Because I can't think either, when I'm not sleeping when I should be. Names, we truncate all the time, but that's not news. And we still use some baby short-cuts. But I can't even think of one. Chaz uses lbb - "little brown bird." Our two dogs are, in aggregate: the old men. Shoot. I got nothin' tonight. I'll keep thinking.
ReplyDeleteOnce, someone commented on a blog saying they didn't know what LOL meant, and I, the know-it-all, responded that it meant lots of love.
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We tend to abbreviate places we like to eat, like Planet Sub in kansas city was PSub. We have a sandwich place here we finally found and it's called Jersey Mike's. Kris calls it Jersey M's. Stuff like that.
ReplyDeleteWE also sometimes call people by their first initials--or add an incorrect additional initial to their names--like our nephew Parker gets called ParkerP. I don't know why.
And when Max was little he ate these gross little things called pasta pick-ups sometimes. Kris called them Pasta Ps. I think we've got a thing with P going on.
I called Sultan Sul.
There you go. That's everything I can think of.
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My brother Abe used to abbreviate all the time in high school, which made for some lovely nicknames for me, like "J-ki-sa and J-croft." But then he go in trouble with my parents for referring to my dad's annual flower show, "The Flower and Bridal Show," as "The F 'n' B.S." (I know that's horrible, but it still makes me laugh)
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