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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