HTTP-Protokoll

[pne]

I must admit I find it slightly annoying how the trainer keeps going on about "das HTTP-Protokoll".

People in apihna would call this sort of thing "PNS syndrome" -- an abbreviation for "PIN number syndrome", from people who talk about "PIN numbers", which are "personal identification number numbers". Similarly with the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol Protokoll".

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Sometimes people don't know (or have forgotten) what the acronym stands for. Even if you *know* what it means you may not parse it properly - some acronyms have pretty much made it into the language as words of their own, and brains deal with them as words. Not http so much - I don't think it gets used in normal conversation all that much. But PIN definitely, as well as ATM (people often go looking for an ATM machine - there's another one) CD, DVD, there are loads that we use that we don't even think about anymore.

That doesn;t make it less annoying, of course.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yes, I suppose. (And sometimes we guess wrongly -- for example, I thought "YES scheme" was such an error, but it's not: it expands to "Youth Employment Service scheme", apparently.)

Maybe I should just shut up for the rest of the day; I seem to be unreasonably worked up. (See also my later entry about HTTP refresh header -- or better, don't.)

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

Hehe - it is a tad annoying - especially when someone is supposed to be to teaching you something.

[n-true.livejournal.com]

Not to forget the "SMS Service" and the "HIV Virus"...