Do acronyms make any one else's brains hurt?

I work for the military and my husband is military. I'm so blind to them anymore. Even my kids talk acronyms fluently. It's ridiculous.

I work for a municipal government so we use them all the time. I don't mind, but they have their place. My boss loves making them up for no reason. For example, we just received a grant from the federal government called "Western Diversification Canada 150 Fund". I agree that it is a mouthful. My boss dubbed it "Chips". HUH???

He said when he sees the name he thinks chips. Could we not say Canada 150? Or even 150? No one else on the planet is going to know what he is talking about. And if you have to take the time to explain it, then you should have just called it by its full name to start with!

Ok. You may have touched a nerve. Heeeee!

When I was teaching it was an alphabet soup - everything was an acronym.  I almost fell out of my chair in the middle of a faculty meeting when we were told that our system was going to pilot the constructed response assessment test- that's right, it would make it the Constructed Response Assessment Pilot.... CRAP... we all knew it was CRAP, now it was just official!  

We're a military family and I use them everyday. So they make sense to me here and most other places. When the kids write papers for school, they often put in acronyms and I tell them they have to write it out completely the first time.

When DH and I were first dating, he was at the Air Force Academy. I made him write out a cheat sheet for me. Now I see them like a word, rather than just a jumble of letters. Maybe a cheat sheet would help?

I think they're challenging. I feel like I'm sneaking into "the know" when I learn a new one.

But sometimes I see one that is commonly meant to stand for something like Point of Sale, and my mind grabs a different meaning, Piece of Shit... for example.

Then I'm "Not In The Know" any more...

Detest them, especially in regards to medical.

Most of the time, they don't bother me. It's when someone uses them to explain a medical condition, or something they are doing at work. If it's not an acronym that most people have heard in every day life, it helps if people will at least type the entire word/phase the first time they use it in the post. Then, they can use the acronym AFTER we know what they are talking about.

For those of you who are acronym challenged, here is a link to the Peas Dictionary. I stumbled across it one day and found it very helpful!

Peas Dictionary

You're welcome.   

I don't mind them, use them, and enjoy figuring them out.

Almost as much fun as trying to figure out what personalized license plates mean.

my favorite was "Chatahallup" I saw recently around town. I

Yep, I was going to say Education is the horrible! If my brain wasn't so fried after a day a school, I could add another 10 to this list.

I work in aviation... My world revolves around acronyms. They are just a common part of my every day.

I hate them. I have a hard time figuring a lot of them out and it makes me feel old and stupid.

I'm fine with acronyms until we get a new person and they want to know what it stands for....... I dunno, just accept it as the name and don't try to make it sensible!

No, but I worked for the government for 25 years.