Tractor Acronyms

[94BULLITT]

LED light emitting diode
SCR selective catalast reduction
EGR exhaust gas recirculation
DEF deisel exhaust fluid

 

[mjncad]

HOASS = Home Owners ASSociation.
SNAFU = Situation Normal, All F***ed Up.
FUBAR = F***ed Up Beyond All Repair/Reason
DILLYGAF = Do I Look Like I Give A F***

 

[sparc]

Much of the shorthand and abbreviations that are in common use today originated with the advent of the telegraph and then not long afterward with transmissions of messages via radio. It was due to the high cost of sending a telegram where you paid by the letter. So if you could get three characters to convey the same message as three words well you just saved a bunch of money. The military was/is probably the biggest generator of acronyms.

 

[94BULLITT]

Much of the shorthand and abbreviations that are in common use today originated with the advent of the telegraph and then not long afterward with transmissions of messages via radio. It was due to the high cost of sending a telegram where you paid by the letter. So if you could get three characters to convey the same message as three words well you just saved a bunch of money. The military was/is probably the biggest generator of acronyms.

That is a interesting fact.

 

[GPintheMitten]

Ship High In Transit... ********

Manure used to be shipped on sailing vessels. If it got damp in the hold, it could grow mold and eventually build up enough heat to start a fire. So it was labelled ********

 

[LeadPoison]

Ship High In Transit... ********

Manure used to be shipped on sailing vessels. If it got damp in the hold, it could grow mold and eventually build up enough heat to start a fire. So it was labelled ********

This one actually is an urban legend. The word dates back almost 1000 years.

 

[GPintheMitten]

This one actually is an urban legend. The word dates back almost 1000 years.

I was wondering about that, but like most urban legends, you hear it enough, you think it'd be true.

 

[k0ua]

I was gonna say that sounds like a crock of ....

 

[GPintheMitten]

OK, I guess I was gullible on this one.

 

[RaydaKub]

FUBAR = F***ed Up Beyond All Repair/Reason

I learned it as ..Beyond All Recognition

 

[mjncad]

******** = Special High Intensity Training.

I learned it as ..Beyond All Recognition

That will work too!

 

[troutsqueezer]

Just to be a pedantic pain in the a*** (a PITA), I'll point out that most of these are abbreviations not acronyms.

Not exactly. These are known as "initialisms", not abbreviations.

 

[Mace Canute]

Let's not forget the short but humble OS! ....Almost always used when things go badly awry...

I'm sure everybody knows what it means!

 

[Baby Grand]

There's CF - some know it better as Charlie Foxtrot.
Always happens at dusk, just as it's starting to sleet.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Let's not forget the short but humble OS! ....Almost always used when things go badly awry...

I'm sure everybody knows what it means!

I thought that meant "Open Station"??? (as in having no cab)

 

[MIKE R]

Is there going to be a test??

Yes there is.

 

[milkman636]

UBTIPPI
Un-Balasted Tractor Is Pushing Potential Instability

That's a great one!

 

[Danno1]

The military was/is probably the biggest generator of acronyms.

I was told by a phone company exec that they beat the military w regards to acronyms. Dunno how true it rreally is, but if youve ever been involved in that business, you'd believe him.


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[Danno1]

Ship High In Transit... ********

Manure used to be shipped on sailing vessels. If it got damp in the hold, it could grow mold and eventually build up enough heat to start a fire. So it was labelled ********

That is what is unofficially called a Bacronym. You take an existing English word and turn it into an acronym.

Did you ever get the e-mail saying the word golf came from Gentlemn Only, Ladies Forbidden? As in the other word above, that is wrong for any number of reasons, not the least of which is that acronyms were not even invented until hundreds of years after the game of golf. Yet people still fall for it.



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[bcp]