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Posted by Alan Rik (Member # 73) on June 16, 2017, 08:34 PM:
I was posting a new topic for a film I was looking for and kept seeing other posts with WTD instead of WTB-Want to buy. So i was thinking what the "D" in "WTD" could stand for! After coming up with nothing I had to look it up.
I actually googled it and found out it meant "WTD-Wanted"!
Here in the USA I notice we always say WTB.
Anyone else get stumped? ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on June 16, 2017, 08:38 PM:
I thought it was just a typo but then when it showed up again it made me wonder as well.
Posted by Panayotis A. Carayannis (Member # 1220) on June 17, 2017, 02:56 AM:
WANTED (????)
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on June 17, 2017, 06:33 AM:
I have referred to standard 8 as std 8 so I can see the association.
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on June 17, 2017, 12:43 PM:
I had no idea either ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Like Jim, i think i also thought it was a typo.
Thanx for clarifying this. It is a question that has been bugging me as well...
May want to add this to the index, for newcomers- ha ha
Posted by John Armer (Member # 4655) on June 17, 2017, 02:43 PM:
So pleased you brought this up, I couldn't fathom it either.
Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on June 17, 2017, 02:47 PM:
Just an abbreviation of wanted
Posted by Terry Sills (Member # 3309) on June 17, 2017, 03:35 PM:
Maybe 'Wtd' would be a more specific abbreviation?
Posted by Barry Fritz (Member # 1865) on June 18, 2017, 12:53 PM:
It seems a bit odd to abbreviate a word to save typing three more letters.
Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on June 18, 2017, 12:58 PM:
Barry, you are spot on, today's way of life is as lazy as lazy can be, everything is abbreviated, one that really annoys me is the news on American TV,
When they use to talk about Osama Bin Laden, (or bin liner as i called him), the American newsreaders use to refer to him simply as O B L. What the hell is all that about???
Our language is always being shot cut to abbreviations.
Lets use "wanted" ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on June 18, 2017, 04:17 PM:
TIROTM*
Doug
*Tom is right on the money.
[ June 19, 2017, 01:46 AM: Message edited by: Douglas Meltzer ]
Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on June 19, 2017, 08:57 AM:
WTB or WTD?
Crickey, I still don't know if they come on spools or reels?!
Lol!
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on June 19, 2017, 09:53 AM:
ROFL!
It's the era of text-speak: when all your ideas are compressed into 160 characters, Abbreviation is King!
High school teachers fight text-speak creeping into written assignments tooth and nail. To the average 14 year old that has been toting a cellphone since 5th grade it is somewhere between "IDK" and "IDC".
Where would Western Civilization be today if William Shakespeare grew up with a cell phone?!
Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on June 19, 2017, 11:47 AM:
Very True
I think we will end up with generations of idiots who will have no clue about grammar or spelling.
Anyway, WTD Die Hard, Silence of the Lambs, Platoon.
(i am deadly serious).
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on June 19, 2017, 12:17 PM:
I have a 14 year old going on 15.
Every so often I turn to him and say "I'm sorry, I don't speak your language!"
Just to show you how central this thing is to their existence. I was at my cellular provider Saturday afternoon. A nice, but very chirpy young woman was fitting me with IPhone 6S. (I'd had 4S up until now...apparently these have been discovered in Egyptian tombs from what they told me yesterday...)
Midway through the process she asked "Are you excited?"
-and I had to say "No." (I believe I have now entered the realm of "crotchety old bastard" for the first time!)
Yes, I'm glad I won't need to charge the thing every day and for the first time since a few days ago I'll actually be able to make a phone call...but "excited"?
(I'm so into this thing that one of the first things I did was virtually duct tape Siri's virtual "mouth" shut!)
Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on June 19, 2017, 03:04 PM:
Steve, i am with you all the way
I've been a crouchy old twat for years
The more i see the worse i become, i remember my Grandad saying exactly the same things. Now i can see where he was coming from
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on June 19, 2017, 03:11 PM:
Purely generational!
"-because I said so!" never made sense when MY parents were the ones saying it!
"Too soon we grow old, too late we grow smart!"
Posted by Ty Reynolds (Member # 5117) on June 20, 2017, 04:54 PM:
"Wanted To Buy" seems kind of redundant.
Unless you're hoping to get it for free!
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