spilt infinitive
At some point Australian government departments stopped having *good* acronyms and started being called things like DCCEEW and then a state level version of the department calls it the exact same name and acronym and suddenly when people want to talk to me about the 'duhque' project I have no idea what's going on.
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Show threadspilt infinitiveMar 8
I believe I'm the only person left who says "The C S I R O" instead of "Syro"
Show threadLiam Mar 8
@jimbob there is a NSW shibboleth. People who know people who’ve been brought before it refer to it as ‘the ICAC’. Everyone else says it eye-cack
Show threadspilt infinitiveMar 8
@liamvhogan ICAC is a great acronym to be fair, we need more of that
Show threadKate BowlesMar 8
@jimbob @liamvhogan I’m on a community thing with the acronym CCAC. My life’s mission is to stop people on the org side calling it “The Cack”. We have settled on See Cack as our compromise rebuttal.
Show threadPinkyMar 8
@jimbob I've never heard anyone say Syro. Wtf is with that? On that theme, one of my work colleagues said "double ay em eye" the other day, and the youngsters didn't know she was talking about AAMI. Haha 😆
Show threadAidanMar 8
@jimbob "DQ" is the dumbest. So dumb. And they change when ministerial portfolios get rearranged. So dumb!
Show threadDread Pirate (Tom) RobertsMar 8

@jimbob We say "Federal D-que" and "New South Wales D-que".

I preferred NSW DCCEEW when they were called Crown Lands And Water...

CLAW!!!

Show threadRoss GaylerMar 8

@jimbob

Standard gripe #37 about slipping standards and the degeneracy of current times - people these days just don't put in the effort to use acronyms and abbreviations properly.

Back when I was a lad I was doing some software work for an organisation whose name started with the string "far". Their workflow was organised via two queues that were implemented as tables in a database.

I named those tables FAR_Q and FAR_Q2.

Happy days (and a proper use of the possibilities offered by the medium).

Show threadJames PurserMar 8

May I present to you the Queensland Governments GILF

https://www.crownlaw.qld.gov.au/resources/publications/government-information-licensing-framework-encourages-public-access-to-government-information

Government Information Licensing Framework encourages public access to government information - Crown Law

Show threadAndrea RocealMar 8
@jimbob Gosh and I thought the (non-extant) BOSTES was unwieldy!