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Hello All

Does anyone use the abbreviation parm. instead of parallelogram?

I believe this was acceptable in previous years and not sure if it still is...

I would be glad of comments/ideas in regard to this.

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You cannot invent your own abbreviation - unless its meaning is compellingly obvious. But I have used //gram ages ago.
 
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You cannot invent your own abbreviation - unless its meaning is compellingly obvious. But I have used //gram ages ago.
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No, I honestly didn't invent my own abbreviation!! It was given by teacher... :) Yeah ok then, thanks for your thoughts... :)
 
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Smile12345 said:
No, I honestly didn't invent my own abbreviation!! It was given by teacher... :) Yeah ok then, thanks for your thoughts... :)
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In my view your teacher was being silly; you should use abbreviations that are widely used & accepted. In no way would I have guessed parm stands for parallelogram. Maybe he/she was writing in a hurry and did not expect anyone to adopt it; but if your teacher does, please send him/her to me for a talking-to.
 
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Drongoski said:
In my view your teacher was being silly; you should use abbreviations that are widely used & accepted. In no way would I have guessed parm stands for parallelogram. Maybe he/she was writing in a hurry and did not expect anyone to adopt it; but if your teacher does, please send him/her to me for a talking-to.
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I agree that I should use abbreviations that are widely used and accepted and don't want to use others.... Maybe they used it over 10yrs ago... ? Could this be possible? Just a thought... :)
 
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Drongoski said:
In my view your teacher was being silly; you should use abbreviations that are widely used & accepted. In no way would I have guessed parm stands for parallelogram. Maybe he/she was writing in a hurry and did not expect anyone to adopt it; but if your teacher does, please send him/her to me for a talking-to.
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Parm has been an abbreviation for parallelogram as long as I can remember. A Google search gives countless examples.
 
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I have seen parm used.

In any case just write parallelogram...it doesn't hurt and will guarantee the marker knows you mean parallelogram..
 
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Parm has been an abbreviation for parallelogram as long as I can remember. A Google search gives countless examples.
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Awesome!! At least someone has seen the term, I was starting to wonder if I'd really gone up the wrong track! Yeah ok then... :):)

What words did you Google????
 
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asianese said:
I have seen parm used.

In any case just write parallelogram...it doesn't hurt and will guarantee the marker knows you mean parallelogram..
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Right....

Yeah I agree with you. I think I'll be safe and just write parallelogram.... :)
 
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