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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>SAS GI NST <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 25, 2021 5:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Acronyms<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Nick -<o:p></o:p></p><p>I think it *can* be the thing you call out, but I encounter it in so many contexts where that explanation doesn't really fit. Sometimes I think it is entirely unconscious shortcutting. On this list, for example, I use LANL (Los Alamos National Laboratory) because I believe that *all* Santa Fe/NM folks know what it is an acronym for and *many* non SFe (Santa Fe) NM (New Mexico) folks know it *by now*. Similarly I find SFI an acceptable contraction in this context. <o:p></o:p></p><p>On the technical side, the shortcut/contraction/acronym is often the primary/preferred reference. Even if you might not *know* that DNA is <i>deoxyribonucleic acid</i> or ATP is <i>adenosine triphosphate</i>... or that the YMCA is the <i>young men's christian association</i>, for example, you know the signified by that signifier, and in fact you *won't* know what those contractions are *for* unless you are in fact using them in some insider/technical sense.<o:p></o:p></p><p>I know people who work within a large but somewhat insular community whose acronyms are myriad and they are truly NOT trying to be exclusionary. I have a number of friends who are either social workers or have studied in the field or have friends/families with mental illness so I hear the acronym DSM and I can tell it is being used in a very "insider" way. I know little of the details, but I've gathered that "DSM II" somehow connotes both "modern" and "not-really-modern" psychiatric models, but I think even if I do the GoogleFu to learn the first level of details, I would not be much less puzzled by knowing, for example:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><h3 style='background:white;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem 0px 0px;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.625rem;color:rgb(33, 33,
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initial;text-decoration-color: initial;background-position-x:0px;background-position-y:0px;word-spacing:0px' id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-10"><span class=mntl-sc-block-subheadingtext><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;font-weight:normal'>DSM-I and DSM-II</span></span><span style='font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=comp style='vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem
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initial;word-spacing:0px' id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-11"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In 1952, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) published the DSM-I, an adaptation of a classification system developed by the armed forces during WW2. It was designed for use by doctors and other treatment providers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=comp style='vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing: inherit;margin:1.2rem
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initial;word-spacing:0px' id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-13"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The DSM-I was the first of its kind, but experts agreed that it still needed work. The DSM-II, released in 1968, attempted to incorporate the psychiatric knowledge of the day. It was heavily influenced by psychoanalytic concepts that were prominent at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote><p>I think that both Glen and maybe Frank have tossed DSM or even DSM II into the conversation here without any more explication than I get at cocktail parties and it lands just as dead for me, but not offensive here as there (until I get my GoogleGoggles flashing Wikipedia/Wiktionary in my peripheral vision with automatic explication). It even seems like a good feature for Alexa/Siri/HeyGoogle to listen continuously and recognize acronyms and offer ordered-by-likelihood-from-context explications in your ear (or in the room if you want to shame the acronymster acrimoniously).<o:p></o:p></p><p>I understand that many are "lazy typists" who find it patently painful (emotionally if not physically) to type anything out. And *too many people* (IMO ... in my opinion) do too much of their correspondence on a TS (tiny screen) which requires them to hunt-peck with one finger (maybe two thumbs) without touch feedback and without the benefit of QWERTY knowledge built into their Neural Net neurons.<o:p></o:p></p><p>I'm assuming Frank's OP (original post) was in response to both some specific TLA (three letter acronym) used recently or the accrued irritation of having to look up jargon ( especially TLAs and MLAs (multi letter acronyms)) just to figure out a conversation he is *otherwise* informed enough on to follow. Or both. Or maybe he's just taking out his frustration with his daughter here where it's "safe" <grin>.<o:p></o:p></p><p>BTW (by the way) and FWIW (for what it's worth) I think I'd be game for one of Glen's experiments, even if the constraints offered somehow cramped *my* style (e.g. 20 line limit on posts, no markup-like formatting like *bold* or EMPHASIS or _underscore_ HTML (even formatting like <b>bold</b> or <i>italics</i>). or even his extremal suggestion of requiring "peer review" by 3 others before submitting (I'd probably become rather mute over that one) WTFOMFGROFLMAOGMWAS!<o:p></o:p></p><p>- Steve<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>