AOS
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 3:17 pm
Lately I haven't been able to keep up at this forum. A few users here have AOS. What is AOS? It certainly stands for something right? Too bad you won't be able to find out unless you know or find it somewhere on the website or forums.
AOS is Acronym Overuse Syndrome. Not everything needs to be an acronym. Acronyms seriously confuse me sometimes, especially all of the new ones. If I am confused, I know these acronyms are confusing others as well. Some are common and obvious such as SS, CPS, PC, W-B-L (filtered for search engines), XP, and such. Others are far less obvious and unnecessary. The less obvious ones are harder for me to even recall.
For an example of the confusion, what's wrong with saying water cannon? That's far more obvious and actually describes what the object is. A-P-W-L means nothing to most people, to the point where I've filtered it so that it is rewritten as water cannon.
I also will use this opportunity to say that "water launcher" is not a good term either. Water cannon, simply put, is much more common and recognizable. Yes, cannons are supposed to fire heavy projectiles, but cannon has become synonymous with a larger gun as water cannons are (even still, water is heavy and a projectile here). The word launcher still is technically incorrect in this situation by definition, as if it mattered.
Hopefully we'll prevent further confusion by writing more obviously.
AOS is Acronym Overuse Syndrome. Not everything needs to be an acronym. Acronyms seriously confuse me sometimes, especially all of the new ones. If I am confused, I know these acronyms are confusing others as well. Some are common and obvious such as SS, CPS, PC, W-B-L (filtered for search engines), XP, and such. Others are far less obvious and unnecessary. The less obvious ones are harder for me to even recall.
For an example of the confusion, what's wrong with saying water cannon? That's far more obvious and actually describes what the object is. A-P-W-L means nothing to most people, to the point where I've filtered it so that it is rewritten as water cannon.
I also will use this opportunity to say that "water launcher" is not a good term either. Water cannon, simply put, is much more common and recognizable. Yes, cannons are supposed to fire heavy projectiles, but cannon has become synonymous with a larger gun as water cannons are (even still, water is heavy and a projectile here). The word launcher still is technically incorrect in this situation by definition, as if it mattered.
Hopefully we'll prevent further confusion by writing more obviously.