Monday, January 26, 2009
What is up with abbreviations ??
The media in the past few days has been talking an awful lot about Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba. Now, regardless of why you think Obama should or should not close the place, could you tell me something? Why do they feel the need to refer to the prison as GITMO??? Is there not enough room in the segment titles to fit the whole word Guantánamo? Is the media just so lazy that they have to shorten the word? Or is it just the time we live in? In the new web 2.0 world of lol'z, lmao's, omg's and wtf's, is it "the hip thing to do" to abbreviate Guantánamo to GITMO? I mean there isn't even an "I" in the word, how can they add a letter to a word they are abbreviating? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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Hi Mr. V
ReplyDeleteI found this in the Wikipedia entry for Guantanamo Bay:
"During the Spanish-American War, the U.S. fleet attacking Santiago retreated to Guantánamo's excellent harbor to ride out the summer hurricane season of 1898. The Marines landed with naval support, requiring Cuban scouts to push off Spanish resistance that increased as they moved inland. This area became the location of U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, which covers about 45 square miles (116 km²) and is sometimes abbreviated as "GTMO" or "Gitmo"."
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