On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:48:06PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > A few days ago I was chatting on ##programming on Freenode, when I tried > to help someone and he used the "mf" (in lowercase) several times. I > thought it meant “motherf****er”, but it turned out to stand for “my > fault” (i.e: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mea_culpa ).
Acronyms can be dangerous. Where I work mf, in in upper or lower case, usually means mainframe. In the IBM mainframe world we have more acronyms than we know what to do with ... DASD and CICS and IMS, oh my. :-) -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://Lassie.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org Bruceville, TX What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works! Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
