Writing Prompt ~ Abbreviations
Mother: "Andy, haven’t you slept? This is nine o’clock. What are you doing?"
Andy: "Not yet, Mom. I’m studying and confusing many things here. Would you help me?"
Mother: "Let’s see, dear. What are you studying? Math?"
Andy: "So many, Mom. I’m just curious and I can’t sleep now. Here in Math, there is cc and L in volume unit and ha in counting area. What’s that? I can’t find it from my book."
Mother: "cc means cubic centimeter and L means liter that is equal to cubic decimeter. While ha means hectare that is equal to hm square."
Andy: "Ooh, I see. Here’s again, Mom. Science, are HIV and AIDS different?"
Mother: "It’s different, Andy. HIV is a kind of viruses, while AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection."
Andy: "Hmm, and here I found SARS. But I still don’t understand. What’s that? Is it very dangerous to our lung?"
Mother: "Of course. SARS is a serious form of lung inflammation that caused by a virus."
Andy: (Andy just nods) "Now Social, my teacher gives me homework to find organizations under the aegis of the UN. What are they? And what are each functions?"
Mother: "There are the FAO, the ILO, the UNICEF, the UNESCO, the IMF, the WHO, the WTO, etc. The function in detail, I’ll get the answer for you later from inet, as Mom is forgotten." (Mom is laughing)
Andy: "Ok, Mom. A friend o’mine told me that his father has bought him a new bike. He said he will ride his bike so often because it is very healthy for us, is it true?"
Mother: "Yes, it's true, Andy. By moving all the part of the body when cycling, you do a great job for your health"
Andy: "Mom, thank you for your help. Btw, how can you answer all my questions? Are you Ph.D or Sc.D?"
Mother: "Hmm, I’m just B.Sc, dear. But I’m still remembered because I had been teaching in private during in the university, and it's just general knowledge"
Andy: "Hmm, in the future, I want to be a professor of science."
Mother: "Wow, that’s great. I wish that too for sure."
Andy: "Mom, where’s sister?"
Mother: "She’s sleeping, don't disturb her."
Andy: "Oh, is Dad working OT again now?"
Mother: "Yes, Prof. Andy, and you should sleep now, before your father comes. It’s already 10.00 PM. Good night!"
Andy: "Good night, Mom!"
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Maybe this is a little inconsequential, as I forced putting too many abbr. :D
Thanks for reading and correction. :))
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Information: hm: hectometer; o'clock: of the clock; o'mine: of mine; OT: over time; Ph.D: Doctor of Philosophy; Sc.D: Doctor of Science; B.Sc: Bachelor of Science...........do you know that Ph.D also means Permanent Head Damage? :D
Comments
Cameeeeeel You always make me full of laugh with your short comment. :D :D
Thank you my friend..., and thank you so much for the new abbr. OC. I like it! :D
Expector Smith,, I'm very grateful to you for the lesson. I really appreciate that. I have already edited my blog. Yes, I forgot about "the" although I read your blog :D. I'm sorry, Sir. :)
Hmm, I have taken the abbr. quiz. Sad, I got false at number ten. Later I realize that bike is for informal spoken.
For your kindness and your generous, I would say again, thank you very much, Expector.. :))
setareh,, thank you so much for dropping by.. You are welcome. :))
Try to checK out this abbreviations quiz.
@Onee
Good question! Mom is one of the abbreviations you should learn.
Some people tend to use abbreviations that may only be used in a chatroom or when you're texting on a mobile phone - too informal to be acceptable in your writing.
Great job - you've correctly used so many abbreviations in this blog. In fact, it can be so challenging to use abbreviations right.
By the way, you usually use 'the' before such abbreviations as 'UN', 'IMF', 'WTO'.
Hello friends, I changed a part of the dialogue a little. Thank you for your attention. :)
Expector Smith,,
What about Mom? Is it abbr? If yes, formal or informal?
I thought in doubt with DND and IC, I just put IC, do as another blog written, *ops :D
Yes, I did read Mr.Jeffrey's discussion before.
Is it only DND and IC? any more?
But I intentionally put some chat abbr here in dialogue topic, not in dialogue. Just to know.
I need your enlightenment, thank you so much for correcting, Expector.. :))
Wow, you've included some informal abbreviations that are not really the abbreviations we want you to learn.
I don't think 'IC' or 'DND' is good English. In fact, Jeffrey has just posted a discussion about formal or informal abbreviations - try to check it out.
Hello Nimzaf,, Thank you so much for encouraging me, I'm learning too. But I like to share it to all of you 'cos maybe it's useful. And I found that it's useful for you. I'll try my best, Nimzaf. Through my lacks of capabilities and time. :)
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