Angel you've given me a chuckle but speak the truth. The internet has
spawned its own language. Besides technospeak, we have acronyms that can
cause serious brain hemorrhages. It all comes down to time and speed. Our
need to communicate quickly.
Ron Spolarich
www.mscollectibles.com
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From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ángel Lobo
Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:38 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] To code the reality
Some months ago I want to ask on this Oly List about this mania of to code
some words or phases. After a lot of centurys we can say "I see yellow
flowers and blue birds". Some people on the Oly List try to say "ISYFABB".
On this matter somebody is forgetting:
1.- For a good comunication is essencial de common code. I guess IMHO is
not a common code on the world.
2.- Some members on this Oly List don´t speak english very well and to
write a little massage like this is a hard work. After a lot of months I
don´t understand thinks like ROFL, BTW - WTB, CLA, IMHO, OEM, RBG, VGA,
FYI, FTI, etc, etc.
Some time ago I ask to some members of this Oly List why they write on the
farewell of a message the name of his town and some letters that I guess
are the state on the USA. This people forget that a lot of people don´t
know the USA and that we must not to know the letters NY, NM, TN, etc. I
think this is case a of bad education.
With the TIA, BTW, CLA, etc, I think is the same bad education too.
Not for the letters.For to mind that all the people around the world must
know the same things and the same codes that I know on my little
neighborhood of my little town of my own country.
To some Oly List members: Please, don´t code the realitry. The most details
I see on it, the more I like it. (More information and best comunication).
Ángel Lobo.
Cuenca - Spain.
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> De: John A. Lind <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> A: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Asunto: Re: [OM] Help with simbols etc..
> Fecha: domingo 19 de diciembre de 1999 14:42
>
> At 13:27 12/19/99 , David wrote:
> > I am not that "instructed" in simbol usage in the net. The following
>
> Here are a few recent ones on this list:
> <g> = grinning
> <gg> = grinning even more
> ROFL = Rolling On Floor Laughing
> BTW = By The Way
> IMO = In My Opinion
> IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
>
> Some of the other ascii-art recently are variations of ":-)"
> I use a fixed pitch typewriter type font (courier) on incoming mail as
> ascii-art gets completely botched with fonts having varying pitch based
on
> character width.
>
> There is a file called "The Jargon File." It is a lexicon of internet
> jargon, abbreviations, acronyms and common ascii-art. As would be
typical
> of such a file it is written as a dictionary in quite professional
fashion.
> It was actually published using "dead trees" a few years ago. At one
time
> the "official" keepers of "The Jargon File" were at MIT, I believe in
their
> Artificial Intelligence lab. Its roots date to before DARPA's
development
> of the internet to days of TMRC (The Model Railroad Club). One had to
> search with ARCHIE to find its location, then FTP to download it (in the
> days before WWW if *some* of you were on line and remember the internet
> dark ages; heck it was even before VERONICA and Gopher servers). It can
> now be found at:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
>
> Apparently Eric is still the "editor-in-chief" of the file after all this
time.
>
> -- John
>
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