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This comment is made in full good faith. I get that being clear/accurate/specific is important, but isn't this what slang/shortnames are used for? Even in the

This comment is made in full good faith. I get that being clear/accurate/specific is important, but isn't this what slang/shortnames are used for? Even in the most conservative engineering positions I've had, slang was used alot, since there are tons of things that have overly long/descriptive/technical terms which no one wants to use in everyday language/communication. The only time you would use them would be in documentation, and even then many times there is a glossary and the shortname would be used.

shawxe 7y ago
But isn't that exactly what he's doing by inventing these signs--creating shorter names so that it isn't necessary to finger spell everything out explicitly?
FabHK 7y ago
From my understanding, that's basically what he did - replace the long tedious name (fully spelled out) by a more snappy symbol signifying the same.
TimTheTinker 7y ago
> This comment is made in full good faith. FYI - per HN guidelines, all comments should be taken as if posted in good faith, including yours :) "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pbhjpbhj 7y ago
In British Sign Language (BSL) when I learnt to a remedial level things like names (places, people, things) would be spelt out the first time, or when it wasn't clear, and then you'd use shorthand - just the first letter, say. Kinda how we use initialisms and other abbreviations in speech/writing. For common topics you'd get local slang that might not even be valid a few towns away -- BSL being somewhat like British-English in that respect!