{"id":4476,"date":"2025-10-13T01:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:52:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T11:52:40","slug":"abbreviations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2025\/10\/abbreviations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbreviations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Abbreviations have real purposes. Laziness is not one of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I see many abbreviations these days. Most are acronyms (TBD, F\/U\/W, Apr, etc.) that are not expanded. Funny thing, I read in an authoritative book at some point in time that abbreviations were used for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Save space on a page or PowerPoint or such.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faster note taking like short hand writing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note &#8220;to save typing when there is plenty of space on the page or PowerPoint or such&#8221; is not in the list of uses for abbreviation. If you want to save typing, type some abbreviation and follow that with a find-and-replace with the actual term. Otherwise, I am just being lazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can do better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Abbreviations have real purposes. Laziness is not one of them. I see many abbreviations these days. Most are acronyms (TBD, F\/U\/W, Apr, etc.) that are not expanded. Funny thing, I read in an authoritative book at some point in time that abbreviations were used for: Please note &#8220;to save typing when there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,435,391,416,5],"tags":[154,438,392,417,128],"class_list":["post-4476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-context","category-energy","category-vocabulary","category-writing","tag-communication","tag-context","tag-energy","tag-vocabulary","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}