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the art of saying less while somehow making you scroll for the full word
means A shortened form of a word or phrase, made by leaving out letters or syllables so the whole thing takes less space to write.
from From the Latin 'brevis,' meaning short — the same root behind 'brief' and 'brevity.' Latin 'abbreviare' meant 'to shorten,' built from 'ad-' (to) plus 'brevis,' and it slipped through medieval Latin and Old French into English. So an abbreviation is, quite literally, an act of making-toward-shortness.
- own irony
- The word abbreviation is comically long itself
- shortcut etc
- Etc. abbreviates Latin et cetera, the rest
- military love
- Armies birth acronyms like SNAFU and AWOL
- texting boom
- LOL and BRB exploded with mobile keypads
- oldest one
- Romans used SPQR to brand their republic
scuba — self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, coined 1950 by cousteau and gagnan
nasa — national aeronautics and space administration, established 1958 by us congress
radar — radio detection and ranging, military technology deployed in wwii
laser — light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation, invented 1960 by maiman