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Acronym of the Day: SNAFU
It has been a long time since I wrote an abbreviation of the day.
Snafu is extremely common and was first used during the Second World War.
The letters that make up snafu stand for Situation Normal, All F***ed Up.
It’s a situation in which nothing works as planned, and there are many mistakes, but that’s how it usually works.
Imagine having a messy, disorderly desk. No matter how much you’d like to say it’s controlled chaos, it isn’t.
Due to this untidiness, you can’t find anything you need, causing you to make one mistake after another until you have complete chaos.
It’s just like being at an airport or hotel.
Sometimes reservations, etc., are not entered into the computer correctly, and the knock-on effect compounds this mistake.
Some companies, I won’t mention any names, are famous for making mistakes, and therefore, snafu or ‘Situation Normal All Fu***ed Up’ is perfect for describing their daily operations.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 65.
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