Stop making up acronyms, I beg you.
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It should have read 993 super charged conversions.
As for my user name, come on guys. Since when is a user name someone's actual name? Compared to 99% of usernames on here I'd say Henry-F is pretty transparent. Marcus isn't actually a goose for, although after a bit of Christmas good living....
Similarly I'm assuming "Superblower" is neither a champion at providing oral relief nor called P on his / her passport.
As always
Henry.
As for my user name, come on guys. Since when is a user name someone's actual name? Compared to 99% of usernames on here I'd say Henry-F is pretty transparent. Marcus isn't actually a goose for, although after a bit of Christmas good living....
Similarly I'm assuming "Superblower" is neither a champion at providing oral relief nor called P on his / her passport.
As always
Henry.
Henry-F said:
It should have read 993 super charged conversions.
As for my user name, come on guys. Since when is a user name someone's actual name? Compared to 99% of usernames on here I'd say Henry-F is pretty transparent. Marcus isn't actually a goose for, although after a bit of Christmas good living....
Similarly I'm assuming "Superblower" is neither a champion at providing oral relief nor called P on his / her passport.
As always
Henry.
I'm a rocker!As for my user name, come on guys. Since when is a user name someone's actual name? Compared to 99% of usernames on here I'd say Henry-F is pretty transparent. Marcus isn't actually a goose for, although after a bit of Christmas good living....
Similarly I'm assuming "Superblower" is neither a champion at providing oral relief nor called P on his / her passport.
As always
Henry.
MTR
I forgot all about CCTV42 
kotafey said:
An internet forum withou acronyms? I don't think it's going to happen.
I still don't know that the "TT" in 996TT stands for, haha. I have always assumed it's either "twin turbo" or "turbo tiptronic" but have never bothered to check. There, I've admitted it. I will now go and educate myself with the help of Google.
I still don't know that the "TT" in 996TT stands for, haha. I have always assumed it's either "twin turbo" or "turbo tiptronic" but have never bothered to check. There, I've admitted it. I will now go and educate myself with the help of Google.
Martian O said:
Yeah, don't get me started on the Turbo "TT" one. FC! 
Henry-F said:
Acronyms which are seemingly made up on a whim. Theres one floating around at the moment concerning "993 SC conversions".
Er... sorry.
Honestly, to me an SC is a supercharger, but I can appreciate that this is perhaps the one forum where that would cause confusion!
Henry, you can slap my wrist in the not-too-distant future, I hope - I'm planning a visit once you get a nice 993 in that fits the bill
thegoose said:
Henry-F said he hates acronyms, although from his post what I think he meant was he hates abbreviations in the form of sets of initials (an acronym actually spells a word - like SCUBA), even though he has done this with his own username. Pot, kettle? 
Keep up at the back!
BertBert said:
This really isn't a very convincing rant at all. If you can't be arsed to apply the tiniest bit of brain power to reading stuff, then you'd be better off staying in bed. I mean who gives a(n) FF about a slightly confusing acronym apart from H-F?
BB
I'm not sure I'm the only person who ends up scratching their heads on a fairly regular basis. A lot of the head scratchers are probably a bit afraid to raise the subject for fear of being labled stupid and not knowledgable. Maybe there are times, this occasion being one of them, when I feel my knowledge allows me to raise a point without beingng accused of being foolish. I hope that doesn't come across as arrogance, more a reflection of my time involved in the Porsche product.BB
As for CCTV, I don't think there can be many people on the planet who are not familiar with the phrase. Dictionaries list CCTV. The same will not be true of the initialisms to which I refer. I can't imagine ISV for example being listed. Even allowing Google to be my friend didn't throw any light.
Henry
monthefish said:
Henry - your rant would probably carry more weight if one of your primary businesses wasn't an acronym itself, and the other wasn't associated with a manufacturer famed fo rolling out new acronyms (PDK, PCM, PSM, PSE...)
KS.
And whats with a PU?KS.
It doesn't even make sense......
Henry-F said:
Maybe there are times, this occasion being one of them, when I feel my knowledge allows me to raise a point without beingng accused of being foolish. I hope that doesn't come across as arrogance, more a reflection of my time involved in the Porsche product.
Doesn't seem arrogant at all, but actually foolish. Perhaps I have missed something. It could only have taken a click and what 10 seconds reading to see what's what?It barely seems worth commenting on let alone begging people to stop. If there was a flood of acronyms/abbreviations [BTW wikipedia thinks that the two are pretty much the same] that were actually wantonly made up and hugely confusing, then I might feel the same. But a single occurrence of SC meaning supercharged where SC more normally means, well actually, I have no idea, but whatever it does mean?
Bert
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