When did all the government acronyms sneak into our vocabulary?

seadoug

seadoug

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First, it was SCOTUS, POTUS, FLOTUS, etc. The latest seems to be CentCom. At first, I thought it was a channel, then realized it was Central Communications. To me, the acronyms are out of control. Do we no longer have the time to spell it out?

And when does a "troop" mean a person? When I was growing up, a troop was always identified as a group of people. Now, when "200 troops were killed" it means individuals.

Okay, I guess I'm just getting old.
 

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I think I first became aware of the term POTUS when West Wing originally aired. I just looked it up and it has been used since the days of the telegraph. The show VEEP kind of solidified the term in my head but I never use it myself. SCOTUS was a code for the telegraph also. I guess they even shortened things back then 😉
 
seadoug said:
First, it was SCOTUS, POTUS, FLOTUS, etc. The latest seems to be CentCom. At first, I thought it was a channel, then realized it was Central Communications. To me, the acronyms are out of control. Do we no longer have the time to spell it out?

And when does a "troop" mean a person? When I was growing up, a troop was always identified as a group of people. Now, when "200 troops were killed" it means individuals.

Okay, I guess I'm just getting old.
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A few weeks ago I found out what POTUS means. It sounds so stupid. SCOTUS what is that? It sounds like a dirty word.
I do like things like ROTFLMAO, because that makes me feel young and hip, that I know what it means. But the best one is LOL, because lol in Dutch means fun.
 
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