Keeping it brief

[Shanthisethuraman]

Dear Alan Sir
Thank you very much for the abbreviations which are useful short forms.
After seeing the appreviations, I searched the abbreviation for TOEIC
(Test of English for international communucation). Please list out frequent
appreviations which can be used for communication and other purposes.

I find out new appreviation for English-Test-Net. i.e. ETN.
TRN:Topic reply Notification
PR; Progress Report
WF:wanted Feedback
LE: lISTENING Exercise

Please let me know what I wrote is correct or not.

Thank you

S.Shanthi

[Principal]

Dear sir , excellent work done by you, i.e. teach english.Thank you so much for your effort.

[Smithhuynh]

All emails have been sent to me are really meaningful. Thanks for your further support. I am Smith from Viet Nam.

[Smithhuynh]

Dear Alan Sir,

Thanks for your info.

[Kati Svaby]

Dear Alan,

Thank you for your very useful letter.Henceforth I don't have to look up in the dictionary these abbreviation all the more so since they can't be found. For example I try to look up 'o.n.o' because its meaning isn't clear to me. In the dictionaries I found nothing and in the Google I found 5 or 6 "o.n.o" or "O.N.O" but now I am so tired that I didn't have patience to search which is good for me.

Now this sentence "keep it brief" came in handy to me because I am really under the weather.
Thank you for 4 synonyms of this expression.

Regards:
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Beeesneees]

I don't know if this will help, but to me o.n.o. / O.N.O. means 'or nearest offer'.

It is used when someone is selling something. They advertise it at a certain set price but o.n.o. indicates that if they are not offered the asking price for the item, they will accept a lower price that was nearest to the asking price.

For example:
Person A is selling some furniture for £80 o.n.o.
Person B offers £70 for the furniture.
Person C offers £75 for it.
No one offers the full price.
Person A will sell the furniture to Person C, because C made the offer that was closest to the original asking price.
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Cheers m' dears!

[Kati Svaby]

Thanks BeeezNeeez for your quick answer. Your explication is totally clear. Henceforth if I hear o.n.o. I know that means :"It's a bargain!" that is to say: 'carry it who put the highest offer.'

If I went to buy for example to a flea market in the G.B. and I can say o.n.o - if my offer would be the highest - would they understand ?

I thought at once that there is a bargaining expression only I couldn't imagine the situation in which this is in use.
Thanks again:
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Beeesneees]

If you are speaking, you would usually say 'or the nearest offer'. It is only in writing that it tends to be abbreviated.
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Cheers m' dears!

[Kati Svaby]

Hello Beeezneeez,
Thank you your interpretation.
Kati Svaby
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Kati Svaby]

I'm sorry I wopuld like to correct my mistake: Thank you for your interpretation.
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We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

[Aslanzadeh]

Hi Alan
It was very interesting essay.
...and LASIK for Laser insitu Keratomileusis!(a laser operation to cure myopia and so on...)
It is very useful.But may be somewhat confusing in some cases.
BP for blood pressure and also for British Petroleum!

[Minud9]

Respected Alan,
R>S>VP,
o.o.s,os.s.
i l. i liked. and so on....
its fine to be and with short form of full word or idoms or pair of words.
You are very clever in the subject please find from more story at i.net or from other sources and tell us more...
THanks.
I am not christian but i love to all creeds who are on the earth...air or...planet...

I HEATRLY SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS BRING YOUR DREAMS IN REALITY AND YOUR NEW 2011 YEAR BECOME MORE POWERFUL AND BRIGHT.....
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mminudd///.

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[Salhi]

j verry begginer in english. i don't what i said but
happy new year and good luck

[Shanthisethuraman]

Hi Salhi

Welcome to English-test-net.

Wish you a Very "HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011.

I wish you all success in learning English.

Thank you

S.Shanthi