A story Cormac likes to tell is that Winston Churchill once said the two things people would miss in the post-war world would be a classical education and the horse.
I don’t suppose that twitter acronyms — sort of seems like it violates the spirit of twitter, no? If the point were to escape the 140-character trivialization limit, one could just gzip some plain text and send the binary — are exactly equivalent to classical literature, but maybe one refers to more than was written by using them (?) Eric > On Jan 25, 2021, at 6:11 PM, Barry MacKichan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > When I see someting like BICBW, > 1. I double click it > 2. Get into a Google screen (or Duck Duck Go) (5 keystrokes using Launchbar > on a Mac) It is unnecessary to copy it; Launchbar can with the selection. > 3. Hit return. > 4. Three out of the first five links contain the definition in the first line > of the blurb. “BICBW stands for But I Could Be Wrong.” > > Elapsed time: about five seconds. > Time to write this email, about 90 seconds. > > —Barry > > On 25 Jan 2021, at 17:31, [email protected] wrote: > > I assume when people use acronyms it is to communicate their membership in a > club that I am not qualified to join, and they want me to be sure I know > that. So the medium IS the message. Also, i’s a useful move in an > interpersonal power game. It forces the other person to come groveling back > for an explication. BICBW > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,D1ESjI8GR19j1Rh3lASYntTnDO0r0B1C5dRIy8sF3kqNIzuut5qBiMpMYUdhhySTsBg8rSDQd1GvjX1Pdf59RnFb7cL44FHWQ1LTOLgla-ax5ykVofFJmjr9T3HV&typo=1 > FRIAM-COMIC > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,a0uacZcotBUTwjjbMq1nOtZCsmgZnvO9blGKf_8mGdC5ZnraXfxbPoLONBXy_1GDxYZsZtQ_VLrD-wgZuBj2Zz9Q0xPzN_RpP60UgQGOvr0KRcmjsgMAOg,,&typo=1 > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
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