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First Aid
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Hello, Millieway!
EDIT: At first I thought you meant "Flight Attendant"!
Hi, and thanks! I would never of thought of shortening "First-Aid" when it is simple enough to spell as is.Millieway wrote:For auction.
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First aid.
EDIT: At first I thought you meant "Flight Attendant"!
Shhh! Be very quiet! I may be sleep writing and sleep reading! :laugh:
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Hi, Dragon Wench!
I've heard that one before, but thanks just the same. At least I finally got noticed rather than ignored.dragon wench wrote:@LSD,
TMI!
Which means: Too Much Information
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Yeah, I never thought someone would have troubles with it considering the tittle of the topic. I don't usually use abbreviations yet I originally wanted to post something completly different, thus making the 'FA' bit of a remnant of what went inside my head at the time.LeoStarDragon1 wrote:Hi, and thanks! I would never of thought of shortening "First-Aid" when it is simple enough to spell as is.
EDIT: At first I thought you meant "Flight Attendant"!
To defend my use of this abbreviation, I must say the word in question is extremely tenaciously abundant in its length consuming rather large bit of space whenever you write it down somewhere. Thus the use of 'FA' is greaty appreciated.
And first thoughts might lead you to many great things on this forum.
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Hello, Millieway!
Oh, also I thought of "Federal Aviation" or "Federal Aviator"!
People on sea ships can have jobs as either "cabin stewards" or "cabin stewardesses". They still can. If they are young enough, "cabin boy" and "cabin girl" come to mind as well. But sometimes, simply "steward" will do, as females are a more recent addition to ship crews, due to an old traditional superstition about females being bad luck aboard ships, perhaps going back to Helen of Troy or sea sirens and mermaids, ship maidenheads aside, when the gender isn't known at the time of requesting one to come to your cabin.
Unlike on airplanes. The first stewardesses were flight nurses, just in case. And those nurses were females. Eventually commercial flight became safe enough, that being a nurse wasn't a requirement. So entered the male, or "steward", ala aboard ships, when regular girls or women could already be stewardesses. This is seperate from airships, like the Hindenburg, where crew standards were similiar to sea ships.
So with both males and females in the role, they come up with "flight attendant", although to me, that sounds like a definition of "pilot"!
Modern flight attendants are being taught First-Aid and how to use those new defibrilators (spelling?), so to me it seems like a full circle back to being medical nurses all over again!
Ergo learning the basics of "First-Aid", or "FA" for you, would seem to be a skill subset for being a "Flight Attendant", or "FA" for me!
I saw on the cover of my "Johnson & Johnson First-Aid Kit" that "First-Aid" was a Trademark. But when trying to verify this in my dictionary, it wasn't there. So looking it up in Wikipedia, I saw it as a reguarl term, minus the - in the middle. So perhaps, "First-Aid" then is the Trademark, while "first aid" is just two words near each other that mean more as such than when apart.
The point is, as a Trademark, you wouldn't want to make an acronym of it. But as regular words, "FA" is okay as an acronym! However, then in some cases you might still need to clarify.
Like were you learning first aid only, for its own sake, or as a skill subset as part of flight attendant training? Ta-dah!
Happy Easter!
Hopefully the power won't flicker this time, with you, as it did with Dragon Wench!Millieway wrote:Yeah, I never thought someone would have troubles with it considering the title of the topic. I don't usually use abbreviations yet I originally wanted to post something completly different, thus making the 'FA' bit of a remnant of what went inside my head at the time.
To defend my use of this abbreviation, I must say the word in question is extremely tenaciously abundant in its length consuming rather large bit of space whenever you write it down somewhere. Thus the use of 'FA' is greaty appreciated.
And first thoughts might lead you to many great things on this forum.
Oh, also I thought of "Federal Aviation" or "Federal Aviator"!
People on sea ships can have jobs as either "cabin stewards" or "cabin stewardesses". They still can. If they are young enough, "cabin boy" and "cabin girl" come to mind as well. But sometimes, simply "steward" will do, as females are a more recent addition to ship crews, due to an old traditional superstition about females being bad luck aboard ships, perhaps going back to Helen of Troy or sea sirens and mermaids, ship maidenheads aside, when the gender isn't known at the time of requesting one to come to your cabin.
Unlike on airplanes. The first stewardesses were flight nurses, just in case. And those nurses were females. Eventually commercial flight became safe enough, that being a nurse wasn't a requirement. So entered the male, or "steward", ala aboard ships, when regular girls or women could already be stewardesses. This is seperate from airships, like the Hindenburg, where crew standards were similiar to sea ships.
So with both males and females in the role, they come up with "flight attendant", although to me, that sounds like a definition of "pilot"!
Modern flight attendants are being taught First-Aid and how to use those new defibrilators (spelling?), so to me it seems like a full circle back to being medical nurses all over again!
Ergo learning the basics of "First-Aid", or "FA" for you, would seem to be a skill subset for being a "Flight Attendant", or "FA" for me!
I saw on the cover of my "Johnson & Johnson First-Aid Kit" that "First-Aid" was a Trademark. But when trying to verify this in my dictionary, it wasn't there. So looking it up in Wikipedia, I saw it as a reguarl term, minus the - in the middle. So perhaps, "First-Aid" then is the Trademark, while "first aid" is just two words near each other that mean more as such than when apart.
The point is, as a Trademark, you wouldn't want to make an acronym of it. But as regular words, "FA" is okay as an acronym!
However, then in some cases you might still need to clarify.Like were you learning first aid only, for its own sake, or as a skill subset as part of flight attendant training? Ta-dah!
Happy Easter!
Shhh! Be very quiet! I may be sleep writing and sleep reading! :laugh:
Who said, "It is not whether you get knocked up, but whether you can get down!"?
Who said, "It is not whether you get knocked up, but whether you can get down!"?