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The Lounge => The Dog & Duck => Topic started by: Torgal on October 27, 2008, 02:18:20 PM

Title: idd
Post by: Torgal on October 27, 2008, 02:18:20 PM

For years I've seen this [what I assumed was an] acronym and wondered what it meant. It didn't seem like anything was an obvious fit for it, I wondered if it might stand for "I don't... something" because there's I tend to use idk a lot ("I don't know").

So on sunday after seeing in 3 times in as many minutes I snapped and made my lady wife google it, and we drew a blank. All options seem as ludicrous as each other.

I Don't Disagree
Indeed
Investment Dealer's Digest!?

Please tell me it's not shorthand for indeed.

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Mangala on October 27, 2008, 02:22:16 PM

I don't disagree.

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Gunnarr on October 27, 2008, 02:30:07 PM

In dutch it's shorthand for inderdaad, which translates, indeed, into indeed. ;)

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Taith on October 27, 2008, 03:02:30 PM

I only found that one out myself a few months ago. I've seen it rarely and my brain has always come back with something like "I Didn't ... er, Do it?"

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Debaser on October 27, 2008, 03:09:16 PM

Ian's Dead Dog.

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Rubino on October 29, 2008, 07:58:45 AM

Immobile Dunked Digestive - somebody has dropped their coffee-dipped biscuit onto their keyboard while watching Laura on the TV and using their PC....

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Envicta on October 29, 2008, 12:12:00 PM

I just found out that "ACRONYM" is a ACRONYM

Meaning ...

"Abbreviated Coded Rendition Of Name Yielding Meaning"

Now that could be made up,  but it sounds cool..

It also raises the question..

What is the real word for an ACRONYM, when ACRONYM is a ACRONYM :)

RARH!! *brain slowly melts*

PS.  I've always read it as Indeed too :)

Envicta.

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Caradir on October 29, 2008, 01:06:27 PM

originally known as Initialism, however the word acronym was coined by Bell laboratories during WWII and has become the popular phrase for this type of shortening.

Initialism uses only first letters of words in the phrase.  i.e NATO, Laser etc

Acronym can use a combination of initials and contained letters to make a word.  Radar,Gestapo etc

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Envicta on October 29, 2008, 01:21:38 PM

Also..

If IDD = Indeed

and you've just spared yourself the trouble of writing those 2 e's

Why not just sod the whole confusion and just say YES!  :)

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Taith on October 29, 2008, 04:27:45 PM

Quote from: Envicta on October 29, 2008, 12:12:00 PM

What is the real word for an ACRONYM, when ACRONYM is a ACRONYM :)

Ah, a word that created itself.

Title: Re: idd
Post by: Warcold on October 30, 2008, 07:41:34 AM

In these kind of situations, the urban dictionary always comes in handy: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idd (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=idd)