I had an English teacher teach me it's considered bad form to introduce acronyms into a writing until you've established what the acronym stands for by writing out the whole thing beforehand. That lesson has stuck with me since.
The first time I worked in a government office I kept a notebook and wrote every acronym I came across in it in an effort to decipher all the jargon in that environment. I gave up after I literally filled up the entire notebook.
I'd kill for scratchy handwriting. My workplace uses the cheapest fuckin' tablets in existence, no using your own, and some of the staff insist on using pens (touch something someone else had touched? Icky!), not iPad pens but actual pens, for their data input into them, so their touchscreens are scratched to hell and back...
So the acronyms will say something like "BKSCK" and I'll stand there wondering, until I parse together it isn't an acronym at all, but the word "black" with two fat-finger typos from mis-entries they didn't fix and in allcaps randomly mid-phrase because they edited a different word out from a properly formatted sentence while in allcaps mode for some byzantine reason.
I had an English teacher teach me it's considered bad form to introduce acronyms into a writing until you've established what the acronym stands for by writing out the whole thing beforehand. That lesson has stuck with me since.
The first time I worked in a government office I kept a notebook and wrote every acronym I came across in it in an effort to decipher all the jargon in that environment. I gave up after I literally filled up the entire notebook.
Acronyms are a scourge upon the land.
Hospital acronyms. So add scratchy rushed handwriting in as well
just write "with", it's not long ffs.
I'd kill for scratchy handwriting. My workplace uses the cheapest fuckin' tablets in existence, no using your own, and some of the staff insist on using pens (touch something someone else had touched? Icky!), not iPad pens but actual pens, for their data input into them, so their touchscreens are scratched to hell and back...
So the acronyms will say something like "BKSCK" and I'll stand there wondering, until I parse together it isn't an acronym at all, but the word "black" with two fat-finger typos from mis-entries they didn't fix and in allcaps randomly mid-phrase because they edited a different word out from a properly formatted sentence while in allcaps mode for some byzantine reason.