SF Abbreviations
This page lists appreviations I use when taking notes on phone calls and in meetings. I call the style "screenplay format", or SF.
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[...] Square brackets enclose text that is paraphrased (usually because I can't keep up with the speaker).
{...} Curly brackets enclose words that were thought, not spoken. This almost always refers to my own thoughts.
(...) Parentheses enclose descriptions of actions.
... Asterisks around a word indicate that the word was given emphasis by the speaker. (In print, the word would be in italics.)
[21:34] is a time (hours and minutes) used to indicate how long a discussion, activity, etc. is lasting. Note that I sometimes indicate times greater than 24:00, such as "25:35" for 1:35 AM, or "27:02" for 3:02 AM. These represent staying awake past midnight. When I go to sleep, the hour resets to normal.
I. Myself
JK A person's initials.
Pp A participant (usually for confidentiality reasons I don't name names)
P1, P2, etc. will be used when it is useful to "identify" specific participants in a conversation without using names.
TT means "Training Team"
N0712 The Legacy Discovery event held by New York region in December 2007. The 'N' is a region letter as in -N- (see below). By the official LD course number system, this LD was "NY 7".
E0805.D2 Day 2 of E0805.
D1-WoB A module (in this case "Masculine Ways of Being 1")
N0806.D1-WoB The specific instance of D1-WoB that was given during N0806.
-Jrny- My men's team, Journeymen. Other teams are: -GNts- Go Nuts; -HdBt- HeadButt; -AmnH- Amananoraho; -Gld8- Gladhe8r; -OoNo- Ooomoronoono (renamed); -PitC- Pit Crew (blown up); -Ashc- Amazinsploadinheadchz (renamed); -TiTe- Titewomal (renamed); -Qust- Quest; -J4Mn- Just For Men.
-bb- Backbone division. Others are: -jb- Jawbone, -nk- Northern Knights, -Mw- Mountain Warriors, -sm- Sons of Maine, -pp- Paradigm Parkway, -21- 21 Men, -hu- Humongous.
-E- New England region. Currently includes men's divisions in New England (MA, NH, ME). Atlanta is -A- and Toronto is -T- but for several years both of these were part of -E-. The letter "E" for "east" goes back to the early SMD days when a volunteer structure was created on the east coast to support men's weekends held in New York and Massachusetts.
-N- New York region (currently comprising men's divisions in NY and NJ; way back was part of -T- region by the SIR's system).
-T- Toronto region (comprising men's divisions in Toronto, and until mid-1999, New York and New Jersey)
This page was written in the "embarrassingly readable" markup language RHTF, and was last updated on 2014 Aug 01.
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