I always had trouble memorizing the acronyms and like Frenchy, I found that in the time it took me to dig the acronym out of my memory and decode it, I could do a complete sweep of the cockpit and switches and reference my custom cheater checklist.
Thank you for translating Eagler.
As far as checkrides or being on the ground go, I could never remember the fried tomato for more than an hour, yet I still remember "it's in 91.205" which always made me go thru checkrides.