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erpowers

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Sun May-01-05 06:19 PM
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What Does That Mean

Every now and then someone makes a post using letters which represent words. Sometimes people including myself do not know what those letters mean. I think it would be a good thing for people to post what these acronyms mean.

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Lady Effingbroke

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Sun May-01-05 06:22 PM
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1. Here's a link to common abbreviations used in posts.

http://dug.amystrange.com/

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rniel

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Tue May-03-05 05:05 PM
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7. They didn't have

Joementum in there

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Stinky The Clown

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Sun May-01-05 06:25 PM
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2. Hahahaha

.... or stop using the acronyms!

I also am bothered by shorthand left over form the days of tiny bandwidth where every letter in a post was a burden on the system.

u for you 2 for to or too (as in Husb2Sparkly) :)

Trying to read an otherwise (mostly) coherent post with that sort of shorthand just makes my barely functional, old, withered brain shut down.

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TahitiNut

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Sun May-01-05 06:34 PM
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4. Something I find particularly amusing ...

... is that many/most of the folks who use such acronyms (FWIW, TTBOMK, AFAIK, TIA, etc.) weren't even around in the days we (yes, I was on the Internet back in the 70's... and on-line in the 60's) struggled with 300 baud modems and glass TTYs. I still remember when the 1200 baud Hayes modems became affordable and how astonishingly fast they were. It was nice to get rid of the acoustic couplers. There's a LOT of stylistic pretentiousness on the Internet ... mostly prolonged adolescents, I suspect.

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bridgit

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Sun May-01-05 06:26 PM
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3. you mean like 'L' for lesbian?

:shrug: like that

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Taxloss

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Sun May-01-05 06:43 PM
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5. Strictly speaking, they're not acronyms.

They're abbreviations. An "acronym" is when an abbreviation makes another word, like Nato or Nasa or Scuba.

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Karenina

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Sun May-01-05 06:55 PM
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6. Alphabet soup

This Luddite says it's way past ridiculouso. AA=?

Armenian Aerger :evilgrin:

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