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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] TLAs (was Router IP addresses)
- From: Gary Stainburn <gary.stainburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:39:28 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <00122209392100.06785@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 23:09, Nick Drage wrote:
> On 20 Dec 2000, at 13:07, kevin.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Well, TLAs in conversation can be quite useful once you are used
> > to them -
>
> Agreed, allows you to say a lot with a little.
>
> On my Slackware partition there's a "wtf" program, somewhere in
> /usr/games/, don't know if it's part of SuSE. If you type "wtf rtfm"
> from the command line for example, it'll explain to you what that TLA
> means. Try "wtf wtf" as well :)
It's in the bsd-games RPM and can be retrieved from:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=wtf
Personally I think TLA's are a PITA (Pain In The Arse).
You either have to expand them anyway to ensure that everyone reading
the mail knows what you mean (as above) or you have to assume (one of
the most dangerous words in the English language) that all the readers
know what you mean; for example I had no idea whar IANAL meant.
>
> > but I don't want to get into the ins and outs of what is
> > permitted and why,
>
> I'm all for TLAs, within reason. They carry so much more meaning
> than the words they represent. For example IANAL strictly means "I
> am not a lawyer". But do the situations it's been used in it really
> means something like "I don't work in the legal profession, so don't
> take what I say as the statement of a legal expert, merely as a
> statement from an interested and possibly knowledgable party. Also I
> am not responsible for any action you take as a result of the advice
> I've just given."
>
> Well, that how it seems to me, then again YMMV ;)
>
> Useful URL left in:
> > but I would like to draw peoples attention to
> > (if you are interested) :
> > http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/jargon.htm
> >
> > Contains the most comment TLAs in use on our LUG mailing list
> > (saves a bit of head scratching when they occur anyway :-)
--
Gary Stainburn
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> On 20 Dec 2000, at 13:07, kevin.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Well, TLAs in conversation can be quite useful once you are used
> > to them -
>
> Agreed, allows you to say a lot with a little.
>
> On my Slackware partition there's a "wtf" program, somewhere in
> /usr/games/, don't know if it's part of SuSE. If you type "wtf rtfm"
> from the command line for example, it'll explain to you what that TLA
> means. Try "wtf wtf" as well :)
It's in the bsd-games RPM and can be retrieved from:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=wtf
Personally I think TLA's are a PITA (Pain In The Arse).
You either have to expand them anyway to ensure that everyone reading
the mail knows what you mean (as above) or you have to assume (one of
the most dangerous words in the English language) that all the readers
know what you mean; for example I had no idea whar IANAL meant.
>
> > but I don't want to get into the ins and outs of what is
> > permitted and why,
>
> I'm all for TLAs, within reason. They carry so much more meaning
> than the words they represent. For example IANAL strictly means "I
> am not a lawyer". But do the situations it's been used in it really
> means something like "I don't work in the legal profession, so don't
> take what I say as the statement of a legal expert, merely as a
> statement from an interested and possibly knowledgable party. Also I
> am not responsible for any action you take as a result of the advice
> I've just given."
>
> Well, that how it seems to me, then again YMMV ;)
>
> Useful URL left in:
> > but I would like to draw peoples attention to
> > (if you are interested) :
> > http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/jargon.htm
> >
> > Contains the most comment TLAs in use on our LUG mailing list
> > (saves a bit of head scratching when they occur anyway :-)
--
Gary Stainburn
This email does not contain private or confidential material as it
may be snooped on by interested government parties for unknown
and undisclosed purposes - Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000
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