tron3 said:
SDC it was created and SDC it shall stand. Period. Sunday can mean different things to different people, not just church. Many people like to go out on Sunday, and dress accordingly.
I don't go out at all on Sunday. Sunday is catch-up-on-sleep day.
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I also agree we should minimize the usage of acronyms. We may get used to it, but it'll turn off newbies. That, and most of those acronyms can be easily said as a modified EDC -- work EDC, formal EDC, etc. Doesn't work quite right if you expand it and say "work every day carry" or "formal every day carry", but most people will be able to get the point. When I first came on CPF I knew what EDC was already -- it is not unknown outside of CPF, and is fairly easy to pick up from context, but WDC and SDC and the others are more specific and thus harder to guess from the context.
I ignored this thread for half a day and now I don't have a clue what all these acronyms being used are. If we stick to a few
good acronyms it'll be okay, but it seems to me we are getting carried away making new acronyms without a real reason -- EDC comes up a lot, but the others do not nearly as much, and it's easier to just say "fancy EDC" than "SDC (Sunday & Dress Carry)" to be newbie friendly. The idea wasn't half bad, but I doubt the many of the acronyms being created spontaneously are used nearly enough to warrant needing an acroym for it.
For instance, saying, "my work light is..." works fine, whereas "my WDC is..." requires some explanation.
Is typing a few more letters really that hard? I find that it takes little effort to say a full phrase instead of an acronym that may not be fairly universal. Acronyms that are so often used that they are often lowercase and still understood -- scuba, laser, and then internet acronyms -- lol, lmao, rofl, brb, afaik, iirc, and wtf have pretty much graduated to become words, or at least internet words. These are okay, because they've come into such great usage, but coming up with acronyms with very specific usage that may be used rarely seems pointless to me. Sure, making up acronyms is fun... but will estrange newbies.