Abbreviation game

[standard235]

Pity me if this has been posted before but here goes.
Someone posts an abbreviation and you guess it. Get it right and it's your turn.
LCD and SVT

 

[Iceman]

I don't really get it but, Liquid Crystal Display and Special Vehicle Team

 

[standard235]

Good. Ok your go. It's like guess that car. That concept. Know what I'm sayin?

 

[Iceman]

Zyp

 

[xcsti]

Just a quick question (I have no idea what zyp stands for), do they have to be real world abbreviations or can you just make up your own.

 

[Famine]

OMG. WTF?


(not a question in the spirit of the thread)

 

[PS]

Zyp

If that's ZYP, I googled it and found nothing. If that's a statement, well then congrats on your useless post. But in the event of it being an abbreviation, I think it has something to do with Zirconia something Powder?

 

[VT]

ZYP = Zirconia Yttrium Paint?

 

[TheChemist]

Zip Your Pants

(the long lost brother of X-amine Y-our Z-ipper?)

 

[standard235]

Yeah, make them real world abbreviations... or it'll go down the can fast.

 

[Iceman]

Chemist got it 👍. Your go.

 

[PS]

Yah, we should established some rules here. One being that if it doesn't appear on an official document, then it doesn't count. That sort of thing.

 

[cardude2004]

Zip Your Pants

(the long lost brother of X-amine Y-our Z-ipper?)

Yeah, I think it should have been XYZ, not ZYP. I have heard XYZ, but not ZYP.

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

Yeah, I think it should have been XYZ, not ZYP. I have heard XYZ, but not ZYP.

You've been playing Postal II.

 

[cardude2004]

You've been playing Postal II.

What is that?

This game is not really the abbreviation game you think it is, it is more like the acronym game. You guys are putting down acronyms rather than abbreviations. An abbreviation is A shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form - and an acronym is A word formed from the initial letters of a name or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words. You are not putting down abbreviations, like Mass. for Massachusetts, or Mar. for March, I've for I have, lb. for pound, and so on. You are putting down acronyms like LCD, XYZ, SOS, FDA, OSHA, DOT, ASAP, CPR, PC, RADAR, EPA, NASA, USDA.

 

[Famine]

No - an acronym is an abbrevation of initial letters which forms its own word. SCUBA and LASER are acronyms. LCD and WWE are not.

lb is not an abbreviation for "pound". It is used to represent a unit of weight and is a concatenation (or contraction) of "librum".

"I've" instead of "I have" is also a concatenation (or contraction), not an abbreviation.


Interestingly, Dictionary.com use the first half of your example for abbreviations...
"2) A shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form, such as Mass. for Massachusetts or USMC for United States Marine Corps."

Whereas they say this about acronyms:
"A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging."

 

[Solid Lifters]

Would Fubar be an acronym? I say it is.

Fubar = ****ed Up Beyond All Recognition

 

[Famine]

FUBAR is an acronym, like its brother, SNAFU.

 

[Anderton Prime]

You mean Situation Normal All ****ed Up?

 

[Famine]

Yep.

We have in the UK a teatime TV quiz called "Countdown". It's all very affable and watched by grannies, students and the Queen (really). You pick 9 letters (well, you pick some vowels and consonants - you don't see what letter it is until it's turned over) then have 30 seconds to make the longest word you can which is in the OED.

On Wednesday, the "expert" managed "Snafued" - a VERB based on "SNAFU", which she described as "Situation Normal - All Fouled Up". I nearly choked on my Easter Egg.

 

[Flame-returns]

We are not the only people who suffer the delights of countdown ("suffer the delights" yes you heared me right) the Australians have a version which that woman with the durgicly enhanced teeth who pulls out the letters (carol somthing?) went to do for 2 weeks. what about SAP (it appears on my mobile box and manual.

 

[ExigeEvan]

You sure that is not WAP?

 

[PS]

SAP = Secondary Audio Program
WAP = Wireless Audio Program?

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

WAP = Wireless Application Protocol.

 

[Flame-returns]

You sure that is not WAP?

Yes its SAP not WAP. BTW the first word is Serial

 

[Jimmy Enslashay]

Serial Application Protocol?

 

[Omnis]

Serial Assosciation Protocol.

totally stumped.

 

[cardude2004]

What I found for SAP - http://www.acronymfinder.com/af-query.asp?String=exact&Acronym=sap