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Education & Training with Zillow Group Mortgages

Reduntant Terms that Greatly Peeve Me

Have you ever heard of a TLA? You know, a three-letter acronym? That's a TLA. TLA is a TLA. 

I love these little abbreviations that make the processes of typing and texting just few seconds shorter; sentences and words flow so much more smoothly when speaking. Who could ever go wrong using a TLA?

...Redundant goofballs. That's who.

Allow me to clarify:

  1. ATM = Automatic Teller Machine; if you say ATM Machine, you really emphasize that it is indeed, a machine. Con-grat-u-la-tions. My-name-is-ro-bot-and-I-sound-like-a-bro-ken-re-cord.

  2. PIN = Personal Identification Number; Please don't say "pin number." Personal Identification Number Number. Yes. It is a number. Most people in the free world have heard of one. If you like numbers so much, I must ask, are you a little OCD-OCD?

  3. NFL = National Football League. There is no need to say NFL League. We get how enthused you are about your awesome team, but spare us the League-League, okay? We know how you get if your running back drops the ball. You hate 'em. Just like I hate redundancy.

  4. PDF = Portable Document Format. Okay, this one is something I'm guilty of doing from time to time, but I thought I'd throw this one out there. Portable Document Format Format! It sounds like a drill sargeant yelling at me to correctly utilize line breaks in Microsoft Word. sheesh. NOW GET TO WORK!

  5. DO_ = Department of ____ (example: Justice, Transportation, Licensing, etc.) No need to refer to the DOL as the Department of DOL or the DOL Department. This makes me giggle a little. Just a wee little. Anything making me think of the DOL is enough to make me cringe, quite honestly enough. Number 6 please!

  6. ~Anything where you repeat a word that is already covered in the abbreviation! Silly. 

Have I missed any? Comment below if you have any good ones I missed. 

Have a Rain-tastic day!

 

Mary

 

Comments (2)

Mark Loewenberg
KW of the Palm Beaches - Palm Beach Gardens, FL
KW 561-214-0370

ah well someone had to bring this up to us to remember once more as we always forget that these are out there all the time and we keep repeating them even though we know they are repetitive and redundant and are said over and over and over again.

Aug 20, 2013 11:47 AM
Mary Weiss
Zillow Group Mortgages - Seattle, WA
Trainer & Content Manager

Mark:  Haha! Of course. Anything I can do to help keep people on their toes! ;-)

Aug 21, 2013 08:27 AM