I love the military abbrevs.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:35 AM, joel walker <uncajoel@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> one of them said ...
>
>>     You name children born to you. Nothing drives me crazy worse
>> than
>> people inserting their cars names instead of just the van or the
>> truck. Also
>> annoying is overly using she or her in a description about a
>> vehicle.
>>
>
> and then a different one said ...
>
>> None of these requirements, or customs, if you will, apply to motor
>> vehicles.
>> That's why not.
>>
>
>
> but all you not-gonna-name-MY-bus folks forget one important thing ...
> humans, by their very nature, have languages. and languages are
> nothing but name-calling. we name things to shorten/quicken
> descriptions.
>
> we say "call the ambulance" ...
> instead of "call the big ugly red and white truck that has the
> paramedics in it!!!"
> but even that long 'description' has shortcuts in it. what's a truck?
> what's a paramedic?
> what's red? what's ugly? what's white? what's "call"??
>
> and we've been doing it for a very very long time. and we get worse
> and worse each generation ... it wasn't that long ago (well, ok, maybe
> 2500 years) that abbreviations crept into the languages ... SPQR. it
> got a LOT worse in WWI cause the germans hated typing all those really
> really loooooooong names of people and offices. and all the
> countries/languages picked up on it and are running like crazy into
> the future, trying to see who can change their whole language into
> nothing but abbreviations. :( FBI, FEMA, COLA, CIA, USDA, and so on.
> and it's gotten worse with cell phones ...
> don't believe me? check out the 'language' people use texting each
> other.
>
> so it's up to you whether you want to force a name on an object or
> not, but you're doing it already for lots of other stuff, so why not a
> bus? ;)
>
> but then, perhaps you prefer the older way of describing things
> ..."honey, have you seen my
>
> filthy-old-fishing-shirt-that-i-won't-let-you-throw-out-cause-it-belonged-to-my-grandfather"??
> it's just as valid, but takes a bit longer. ;)
>
> have fun, everybody.
>
> Big-fat-ugly-bearded-fellow-what-drives-vanagons-and-writes-terrbull-pomes-on-the-vanagon-bus-list.
> :)
>

--
Neil2
'82 Diesel Westfalia (Fwd Puke Qualified)
'86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (Savannah)
Nunquam Pendite Divendium