Name: 13個常用英文縮略語和縮寫詞 (13 Common ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS in English)
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祈使句型

Do do do do, what's the worm talking about?

未來簡單式

I don't even know what that means, but I'm going to teach you a lesson and you'll understand

what the worm's talking about and you'll be able to use some acronyms and abbreviations

that are used in business and texting and emailing.

Let's go to the board and we'll start off with – first of all, what's an abbreviation?

An abbreviation is a shortening of the word, and you can think of an abbreviation for “will

not” is “won't”, we take two words and we shorten by putting them together and

An acronym is when you take the first letter of each word and you put them together.

For example, in “ETA”, it's estimated time of arrival.

On the board, an abbreviation for “attention” would be right here, “att”, and we get

rid of all the words, and I did a video about commas and contractions, you can check it

out, but that comma says something is missing – sorry, apostrophe, not comma – ugh,

The apostrophe says there are words missing or letters missing, so we contract it.

So, now that we know what an abbreviation is and an acronym is, why don't we go to

the board and try to figure out what's going on?

If you notice, I drew a clock and there's no particular order, so don't think one

is better than the other, it's just to give you an idea where we're going to go and

I've got a couple of other ones that you'll find in the bonus section, that's why those

So, let's start with the first one: for your information, FYI people will say, and

Well, saying it as well as writing it and in text, it means for your information, you

don't know this, so I'm going to let you know, I'm going to inform you, give you

Another way of saying by the way is “incidentally” and incidentally means something to be added

and so “By the way, Johnny will be late for the party”, right?

I'm just going to add that in and bring it in there, it might not even be part of

the regular conversation, right, so we're going to be needing you.

For cards, we're going to have to buy some cards for the party, oh by the way, incidentally,

Adding that in because it comes in “by the way”, not directly.

N/A: not applicable, means does not apply.

It means it's not part of it, so taxes are not applicable on this item, because it's

made in Canada, there are – they won't apply to the product.

So, not applicable – doesn't apply, has no effect.

It means we're in the middle of conversation, I have to stop right now, go somewhere else,

So, I'm going to come and continue the conversation later.

You can even say it in real life, like “Hey, be right back.”, means stop, hold where

we are, I'll come back in a second or two.

IMO: in my opinion, meaning there may be some facts, but the way I think about it is this

So, in my opinion, yellow is the best color in the world, because it is, and it is, that's

We live in a world now of non-facts, so maybe it is a fact in my world, because my perception.

Something just went through my head, but it's not a fact, it's my opinion.

You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

Yellow is a great color is my opinion, okay?

SOP: it doesn't mean “son of a bitch”, it's standard operating procedures.

What SOP stands for, when you have a complex organization or something that is difficult

to do, run an operation, for instance, McDonald's, although you might think it's cheap, disgusting

food, which it is, there are certain ways McDonald's operates that makes it very efficient

and effective in delivering the food to you.

They have certain procedures, and these are standardized, meaning there are six hamburgers

that go on and are flipped every two minutes.

They get flipped, they box the buns, the bun person does this.

There are procedures that are standardized, and all the employees know each step and follow

each one to take a difficult process and simplify it.

That's why we stay “standard operating procedure” because you saw all the words

We just say “SOP”, do the damn rules.

If you follow them, everything works out.

YTD: in this case, it means “year to date”.

What have you done up to this part of the year?

If – let's pretend this is November the 9th.

Well, we're now 11 months into the year, so you to year to date, from January to now,

What's the year to date, what's going on in this particular part of the year, from

the year to date, we've done this much, this much, this much, okay?

This is an interesting one because it's taken from business, it means if I take some

money and I put this money into something to make money because an investment is something

– invest means investus, it means to put in a vest, I wish I had one on.

There are pockets you put it in and it's safe and secure.

So, when you have money and you don't just want to keep it in a bank and you want to

make the money larger, you put it in an investment.

Maybe you buy a house, maybe you buy stocks in a company, okay, and you get money back

Return on investment is how much money you get back from putting it in.

So, if I take 1000 dollars and I put it in, say, Apple stocks, I buy some Apple.

And a year later, I have 1,100, I had a 10% return on my investment, being 10% of the

money, I got 10% more money from putting it in Apple than keeping it in my pocket.

A return on investment can also be if I put energy into something, what do I get back?

You have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you spend a lot of time with them.

Do they take you out, do nice things for you, give you massages?

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13個常用英文縮略語和縮寫詞 (13 Common ACRONYMS & ABBREVIATIONS in English)

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