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Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] TLAs (was Router IP addresses)
- From: "Nick Drage" <nick-drage@xxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:24:27 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <3A4212ED.24068.53CC22@localhost>
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> > THREE LETTER ACRONYMS. For me they just make me lose the jist
> > of what I reading, hindering not helping.
Fair point, but if you read/use them often enough they become words
in their own right, same as TCP/IP, POP3, PPP and so on... but YM...
er, you may disagree with me ;)
> James, we really can't have this kind of thing, Christmas or not!!!
> It's a Three Letter ABBREVIATION, an Acronym is quite different.
*ahem*
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/TLA.html
--
Nick Drage - half understanding Pegasus until he gets his
Linux partition sorted out......
> > THREE LETTER ACRONYMS. For me they just make me lose the jist
> > of what I reading, hindering not helping.
Fair point, but if you read/use them often enough they become words
in their own right, same as TCP/IP, POP3, PPP and so on... but YM...
er, you may disagree with me ;)
> James, we really can't have this kind of thing, Christmas or not!!!
> It's a Three Letter ABBREVIATION, an Acronym is quite different.
*ahem*
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/TLA.html
--
Nick Drage - half understanding Pegasus until he gets his
Linux partition sorted out......
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