<div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">The norm has been for the past 13-1/2 years that Avodah shows concern for the writer and allows abbreviations. I even added an automatic abbreviation expander to the archive. (Hover the mouse on an abbreviation, and get suggested expansions.) If you take Jewish internet chatting as a single culture, the norm is far older, dating back to before my arrival on talk.religion.jewish in 1982.<br>
<br>It's the culture in the community you wish to participate in. Despite your own difficulties with it, you aren't likely to change something that entrenched. I suggest you learn <a href="http://www.aishdas.org/avodah/acronyms.cgi">the list's common acronyms</a> as a jargon and get on with life.<br>
</font><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Prof. Levine <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:llevine@stevens.edu" target="_blank">llevine@stevens.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I would like to appeal to the moderators of both lists and ask them not to permit people to post with abbreviations. I find some posts incomprehensible due to the extensive use of abbreviations.<br>
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I spent a year at West Point and found that the army was obsessed with abbreviations. I received emails that were incomprehensible to me.<br>
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In order to get compensated for a trip that I took to deliver a paper at a conference when I was at West Point I had to fill out a travel form. One box had POV on top of it. I asked, "What does POV stand for?" and was told Personally Owned Vehicle. When I pointed out that car was also 3 letters, the reply was, "You might own a truck."<br>
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If the goal is for people to participate in discussions, then I think that the use of abbreviations should be banned or at least discouraged. I am sure that I am not the only one who cannot understand posts with excessive abbreviations. Why not show some concern for the reader and eliminate the use of abbreviations?<br>
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Please!<br>
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YL<br>
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