[djmcmath]

Arcsine, you're dead-on right with the specialized language problem. Civilians think I speak "Navy," which isn't technically true. I'm fluent in several dialects of "Navy Submarine," including Nuclear Power, Communications, and Navigation. I understand very little "Naval Aviator" language. I'm also rapidly gaining fluency in a lesser-known tongue, "Navy Legal." There are a lot more acronyms and numbers, though much of the language is far more precisely detailed. I was on the phone with a submariner the other day and forgot which language I was speaking, and failed to translate from Legal into Submariner: "I can't accept that ADSEP without a PLR from PSD for the STO." Oops.

And then there's this nonsense from the Bunny-Pancake folks. I can't imagine that these people believe, in some way, that they make sense to anyone. Bizarre.