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Acronyms and short forms

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A plea,please  use full forms once in your posts!Not everyone is familiar with all terms.Lack of definition muddles your messages.Thanks

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Agree with this! Working out what "BM" meant took me longer than i care to mention (its bowel movement, for future reference!)

Totally agree with you, so hard to understand some posts due to the use of acronyms. 

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