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Old May 17, 2010 | 12:23 am
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Originally Posted by wise2u
its true there are things like airport codes and fare classes that have strange abbrieviations, until you learn them, but some of the stuff here is unnessesarily abbreviated out of laziness...how hard is it to type upgrade instead of UG or boarding pass instead of BP...was this site started by court stenographers?
If you continue to make up abbreviations, dont be snotty if someone occasionally asks for a translation.
If we are making up abbr i think we ought to call skymiles skypesos because SM could also mean SkyMall... so if we start calling delta's FF points SP would it catch on?
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