Mormons Like Acronyms
Mormon culture, like many large corporate cultures, has created many acronyms to make communicating a little easier which makes some conversations between members of the church impossible to understand for people of different faiths. Here is a example of a possible conversation by the author of whatmormonslike.blogspot.com
CTR and the 6 B’s sound simple enough. However, it takes a lot of coordination: BYC, PEC, plus all the meetings of the GAs at HQ in SLC, UT.
Today LDS YM/YW have CES and EFY along with the mainstays of FHE, the BoM, the D&C, the KJV, and JST. But, why did the MIA go MIA, only to become YM/YW? It’s like MIA was just a NCMO and YM/YW was on MST.
Also, why is it that when RMs are not talking about the MTC or their stats, they talk about when they were APs, ZLs, or even DLs? Don’t RMs remember teaching that it doesn’t matter if you go to the Y, shop at the DI, are in EQ/HP or RS, or joined the GOP. It doesn’t even matter if people constantly tell you XYZPDQ. “F!”
What acronyms did he leave out? DTR, PPI, YSA, YA, APC, BYU, BYU-I, BYU-H, BIC, WoW, HT/VT…do SAHM and DH count? or ROUS? What else is there?
I believe that this is the root of why they dropped the name of Home, Family and Personal Enrichment at the last RS conference. The acronym just didn’t roll off the tongue. I watched a PEC try for 10 minutes to make it work. No go.
There’s also FoS (Friends of Scouting), HPGL (High Priest Group Leader or Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language, depending on your background).
BYU has their own set of acronyms.
SWKT (pronounced swiket), SFLC (pronounced syphilis), MFHD, DT, RB, JSB, HFAC
And there’s RWH- Return with honor