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DDCA Shorthand

BABEL CODEBOOK

Babel Dept stamp in orange and white, reads: Babel Plain Language Decode
Babel Dept stamp in orange and white, reads: Babel Plain Language Decode
Babel Inter-Office Decode stamp in green with authorizing staff initials FA and JTF
Babel Inter-Office Decode stamp in green with authorizing staff initials FA and JTF

Learn the Shorthand. Question the Longhand.

Circular stamp reads: Declassified, Cleared for Public Release, Dog Declassified. Shows silhouette of a Chihuahua's head.
Circular stamp reads: Declassified, Cleared for Public Release, Dog Declassified. Shows silhouette of a Chihuahua's head.

A NOTE FROM BABEL
Regarding DDCA Shorthand

During its decades of research, the DDCA developed an extensive internal shorthand language intended to make recording and communicating behavioral observations more efficient.

It appears no concept was considered too minor to receive one.

BABEL continues to locate, cross-reference, and decipher stacks of these terms throughout the recovered archives. More than 50 are currently in use, with additional specimens surfacing at an uncomfortable rate.

As meanings are confirmed, DDCA Shorthand will be decoded, released, and returned to appropriate use throughout the archive.

We have stopped asking why they did this.

— BABEL
Behavioral Archive Bureau for Editorial Linguistics

BABEL Team decoding DDCA shorthand. From left; Zoey, JT, Frankie.

A woman writes on a chalkboard while two women laugh behind her.
A woman writes on a chalkboard while two women laugh behind her.

RECOVERY UPDATE:
M.U.D. has been located.
Decipherment pending.

— BABEL

DDCA A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.

= Archive Code Recovery & Organization — Now Yielding Modern Sense

DECODE 01

BABEL NOTE: Certain Shorthand Expansions were changed for easier modern day understanding. They have an asterisk (*) next to them. Following are DDCA’s original:
FOMO - Frustrative Omissional Motivational Overpotentiation
MEH - Motivational Elicitation Hypoactualization
RAP - Refractory Aberrant Psychodynamics
WHO - Withdrawn Hominid Oriented-Observationalism

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