Came from a song that I made from, like, 2012 - there was some phrase like 'Rap Monster', and I just, I thought it was so cool. But as I grow up, and as I came to America, I think it felt like too much. So I just abbreviated it to 'RM', and it could symbolize many things. It could have more spectrums to it.

Korean Musician

Owen Hart

The perks of working in Japan are that you might go for two weeks every three or four months, so you do work an abbreviated schedule. But you really make up for the abbreviated schedule by how hard you have to fight, how much you've got to be in shape.

Canadian Wrestler

Kami Garcia

I start with a beat sheet, which is more of an abbreviated outline. It hits all the major plot points. From there, I move to note cards. But the most important part of my process is my inspiration board.

American Writer

Melvyn Bragg

Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, numbers 39 and 40, could be said to have changed the way in which the free world has grown.

English Journalist

Mariella Frostrup

As for tweeting and texting: impassioned discussions, particularly when they're intimate, don't work in abbreviated script messages. No relationship should begin or end in 140 characters.

British Journalist

Satoru Iwata

What I wanted to have happen was that people who didn't know that Game Boy Advance and GBA are the same thing would remember Wii right away because it doesn't need to be abbreviated.

Japanese Businessman

Callan McAuliffe

The Australian accent is sort of like going down a step in smartness, you could say, because you guys pronounce things as they're spelled. We add and abbreviate stuff.

Australian Actor

Edward Tufte

What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

American Educator

Saul Williams

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

American Musician

Shigeru Miyamoto

Japanese people have a funny habit of abbreviating names.

Japanese Designer

Learn common abbreviations like 'etc.' for etcetera or 'i.e.' for that is.

Common Abbreviations

Do not overuse abbreviations; too many can make the text unclear.

Avoid Overuse

An initialism is a type of abbreviation made from initial letters, spoken one by one.

Initialisms

Use abbreviate to meet word limits without losing the text’s core message.

Editing Importance

When abbreviating, ensure the main points and tone of the original text stay intact.

Preserve Meaning

In legal contexts, abbreviating processes can save time and resources.

Legal Efficiency

Legal abbreviations usually require all parties' agreement for fairness.

Agreement Matters

Abbreviating can mean summarizing long testimonies to highlight key points.

Summarizing Testimony

 See, when I went to prison, our car phones were this big and required two people to carry them. So imagine what it was like when I first grabbed my little Blackberry and I started learning how to text. But the thing is, the people around me, they didn't realize that I had no idea what all these abbreviated texts meant,

Shaka Senghor: Why your...

 too difficult to pronounce they call me abbreviations letters alphabets different letters of the alphabet but never my full name that makes an impact on you in many cases I contemplate it should I change my name should I abbreviate it to make it more

The power in your name PIPE...

 which is this famous double-helical molecule. And the genetic information is contained in the form of a sequence of four bases abbreviated with the letters A, T, C and G. And the information is there twice -- one on each strand -- which is important,

Svante Pääbo: DNA clues...

 Other symbols are used to represent operations. Some of these are especially valuable as shorthand because they condense repeated operations into a single expression. The repeated addition of the same number is abbreviated with a multiplication sign

Where do math symbols...

 Psychologists call this desirable difficulty. Taking detailed notes with a keyboard would seem to be the best way to grasp what a lecturer is saying, to be able to review it verbatim. However, studies have shown that when we have to abbreviate,

The paradox of...

 would get into the magazine on my watch. New Yorker style for "microphone" in its abbreviated form is "mike." Finally, there was a sticky grammar and usage issue in which the pronoun has to have the same grammatical number as its antecedent.

The nit-picking glory of...

 that which is imitated. And abbreviated it to meme, just because it sounds good and made a good meme, an effective spreading meme. So that's how the idea came about. It's important to stick with that definition.

Susan Blackmore: Memes...

 So humility, harmony and openness. Those are the three lessons I learned from the philosophy of water so far. They nicely abbreviate to H-H-O, or H2O. And they have become my guiding principles in life.

Be humble -- and other...

 but why should we care? Let me give you just three reasons why this is so beautiful. First of all, as I explained, to ask a computer "Is that number prime?" to type it in its abbreviated form,

Adam Spencer: Why I fell...

 got a sort of swizzle 'uncle if you like and the no doesn't the Cape glossies got a bubbling call and the great abbreviate glossy Starling has got a kind of whiny

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