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Originally Posted by Rev_Pee_Kitty
"Speech time"? I've never heard abbreviations used in speech, and even if someone did, it would only save time for the single-letter ones. I can't imagine telling someone with a straight face, "That rule is on page double-you colon ay kay emm ninety four."
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That's what acronims were invented for, isn't it? It's faster to say 'st' instead of 'strength' (or 'sila'), 'ht' instead of 'health'* of 'zdorovya', 'be' (i.e. B) instead of 'Basic Set' (or 'bazoviy nabor'), 'ee-ah' instead of 'Innate Attack' (or 'vrojdyonnaya ataka'). And definitely everybody (even newbies) prefer to say 'ah-ter' ('ATR.') instead of 'Altered Time Rate' (or the somewhat Lovecraftian-sounding 'Izmenyonnaya skorost techeniya vremeni').
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*==Most of the locals have trouble pronouncing the 'th' sounds (both as in 'them' and as in 'think').