Hi :) Smart. I guess most of us just hadn't thought of it. I think short-forms are quite cute and friendly but the marketing team asked us not to use them outside the lists to the wider world (personal emails and smaller groups can do what they want of course). We need to get the full name out there apparently. Normally a name change such as from OpenOffice to LibreOffice would be phased in using both names in conjunction with each other for about a year or more apparently otherwise there is a risk of losing and confusing people and losing the "Brand recognition".
Early on the lists agreed to use LibO as the agreed shortening but to me that makes it sound like the thousands of library files i routinely ignore so a few of us started using LO as in "Lo and behold" (oops). Fx is the term used backstage rather than writing "Special Effects". Lx is for "electrics" or "electronics" although people tend to pronounce it "elec-trickery" or "Leccy" to try to be amusing or cute or express annoyance. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 10 August, 2011 14:42:32 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] add ttf fonts to LibreOffice 2011/8/10 Nuno J. Silva <[email protected]>: > On 2011-08-10, Tom Davies wrote: >> On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 21:05 -0700, SillyOne wrote: >> >>> Adding fonts to the windows version of LE is simple [...] >> >> Errr is LE being used to refer to LibreOffice? Is it used in the French lists >> or something? > > Sounds like the official Firefox shortening, Fx (while many people use > Ff). > > I've been using LibO, but, BTW, do we have some official shortening? We are using computers, aren't we? So why shorten anything? I use a text expansion tool called AutoKey (there are other ones for other operating systems) to expand all my shortenings as I type, like ”oooo” for ”OpenOffice.org”, ”lboo” for ”LibreOffice”, ”lboc” for ”LibreOffice Calc” and ”kregj” for: ”Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ” > > -- > Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) > gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
