On 20 Dec 2000, at 13:07, kevin.taylor@powerconv.alstom.com 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 :)
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 :-)
-- Nick Drage - half understanding Pegasus until he gets his Linux partition sorted out......