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"Acronymic" Communication

08/04/2009 2:14 PM

Have you ever noticed how much acronyms are used in discussions? In most cases, they are fairly easily understood because they are in a context that allows our brain to decode them, if we are familiar with the subject. Also, with the popularity of text messaging and twittering, terse communication is becoming commonplace. But brevity in communication has been around a long time. Television commercials, music videos, and even movies to some extent, change cameras quite often to the point of frustration. Having grown up in an age before what I consider this greatly irritating practice I wondered... Suppose I wrote a few paragraphs and reduced them to an acronym; i.e., the first letter of each word, keeping punctuation where it should be... how hard would it be for others to reconstruct the original wording?

There are plenty of other puzzle threads on CR4, so I hope this will be tolerated. No doubt, some will think it's a crazy waste of time. But some may think that human minds are enough alike that it is possible given time to reconstruct the original writing.

The rule used for the following acronymic communication: Only the first letter of each word appears. Spaces separate words. Punctuation is intact. There is one exception: the number 100 appears intact. There is nothing to expand there.

Please post any attempt (especially humorous ones -- as long as it is not off-color or demeaning to anyone). Or post how ridiculous it is? Just be respectful.

I a a w a r, I t i m b f, f t i, t d a s b o n w t r i f s a f.

I t t d t t n o w t c b s i s p, t w b f e c o t o. I m e b t t k o "c" w p m r t m w i, b t k i m i t m o t o w.

J t, i L d V h w h n i t w. G t h w s h b r a a f o n f h a a, i h m m h (o y?) m h b s t t f o w t h h w i t w. A w i s s a c m l t c t a p o o f f t n 100 y? A l o p w b w o t!

C t t o i, t i s s t N, e? H y h f w t.

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Re: "Acronymic" Communication

08/04/2009 4:01 PM

~ Snort!~

Have time for this, I do not!

Hmmmpf

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Re: "Acronymic" communication

08/04/2009 4:53 PM

I always arrange weird acronyms relentlessly, It's tremendously impractical mind blowing fun, for those involved, the discrepancies are sometimes bewildering or with the right intelligence funny silly and flattering.

It tends to denote the total nonsense one will tempt causing belief systems in silly pranks, tens will betray fact even causing others to obey. It's momentous everlasting betrayal took ten knights of "Cedonia" with problems maintaining righteousness to mention words indefinitely, because they knew it might intimidate too many other townspeople to overthrow Williams. (the king)

Just then, in Liverpool disgusted Vladamir hastily watched how nine inmates traded weapons. Granted the hot weapons simply had broken reality apart after furnishing one nice flippant hallucination after another, in hours maintained mostly hectic (or years?) many households boasted simply to test for other ways to help halt worthless inmates torturing water. Always wise in samurai swords and catapults made light to cause total annihilation proved obscure otherwise filthy French troops numbering 100 yelled? Annihilation loomed over precious wrangled battlefields without one troop!

Consequently today tactfulness overshadows innocence, totalitarianism is solely studied towards Newark, eh? Hell your honestly fooled with that.

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Re: "Acronymic" communication

08/05/2009 5:47 AM

wow! how did you do that? google?

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Re: "Acronymic" Communication

08/05/2009 3:30 AM

S o b. I j d k w t a a a m. <u>

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Re: "Acronymic" Communication

08/06/2009 1:36 PM

OK, OK. Pretty much what I expected -- few responses, some humor. I apologize for wasting anyone's time on this. But, I do think ancronyms have gotten out of hand in today's world.

RVZ717 - I used to get emails like this before good spam filtering -- only yours makes more sense.

PWSlack - I'm horrified at your decoded message!

Original: I a a w a r, I t i m b f, f t i, t d a s b o n w t r i f s a f.

I t t d t t n o w t c b s i s p, t w b f e c o t o. I m e b t t k o "c" w p m r t m w i, b t k i m i t m o t o w.

J t, i L d V h w h n i t w. G t h w s h b r a a f o n f h a a, i h m m h (o y?) m h b s t t f o w t h h w i t w. A w i s s a c m l t c t a p o o f f t n 100 y? A l o p w b w o t!

C t t o i, t i s s t N, e? H y h f w t.

Decoded: In an age when acronyms rule, I thought it might be fun, for those interested, to decipher a small bit of normal writing to rescue it from such a fate.

I think that due to the number of words that can be substituted in some places, there will be few exact copies of the original. It might even be that this kind of "code" will prove more robust than many would imagine, because the key is mostly in the mind of the original writer.

Just think, if Leonardo da Vinci had written his notes in this way. Given that he would still have been recognized as a force of nature from his art alone, imagine how many man hours (or years?) might have been spent trying to figure out what thoughts he had written in this way. And what if someone said a coded message like this contained the accurate prediction of our future for the next 100 years? A lot of people would be working on that! Come to think of it, this is somewhat similar to Nostradamus, eh? Hope you had fun with this.

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Re: "Acronymic" Communication

08/06/2009 2:10 PM

Woooo Hoooo! I got

"(or years?)" and "Eh?" right!

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