Jostein wrote:
Why we hang on to the acronyms. Laziness I suppose...:-)
Interesting thoughts about Unix. :-) I thought the "alphabet soup" had it's origin from morse and ham radio.
Cheers, Jostein
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----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 10:55 PM
Subject: Re: Is there an analog only Pentax list?
Common usage has evolved away from your dictionary definition.
By the way (BTW), anyone ever wonder why all these alphabet soup intials
on the
internet? Well, the old time Unix hackers couldn't tough type so spelling
out
words was a pain. Bandwidth was very limited, anyone remember 110baud?
And,
mostly, making things criptic to outsiders seemed cute to those,mostly,
college
kids. So, that leaves the question, why do we do it?
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frank theriault wrote:
Dear Curmudgeon,
Of course I could have googled it. I know that!
But it's ever so much more fun asking on-list, don't you think? <g>
BTW (and this isn't directed at you, Tom, just at "TLA's" in general), ERC, TLA, BTW and all those other alleged TLA's aren't acronyms. They're initialisms. A true acronym spells another (usually unrelated) word. So PUG, for instance, is an acronym.
Now, I have a feeling that someone's going to tell me I'm wrong. But I'm not.
cheers, frank
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From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Is there an analog only Pentax list? Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:53:01 -0500
Three Letter Acronym!
Suggested google search: "internet acronym". Time to find: "less than to write post defining ignorance". Mode: "curmudgeonly". :)
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