Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 11:49:19 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: drifter@stratos.net (drifter) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it just me, or are people forgetting how to write mail? Message-ID: <199803031649.LAA01528@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803030548.FAA00476@myname.my.domain> from drifter at "Mar 3, 98 05:48:45 am"
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drifter said: > > >> // Greg Lehey wrote: > >> // > It seems to me that in the last couple of months the number of > >> // > hard-to-read mail messages has significantly increased. I've come to > >> // > >> // I have noticed a large increase in this as well; > >> // > >> // o Not quoting the original message, just supplying an out-of context > >> // answer. > > Just my two cents worth: > > You want to talk about hard to read messages? What about people's > addictions to TLAs? (Three Letter Abbreviations) I mean, come on now... > I can understand a BTW now and then, but all this business with > YMMV, IMO (or IMHO), or AFAIK, or WEAC2M (Whatever Acronym Comes to Mind) > is ridiculous. > FWIW, It seems to me that the abbreviations are an extension of the emoticons. Alot of people here know each other only by email, and these acronyms are a form of expression that help punctuate the written language (in an idiomatic form) such that it can appear to be as expressive as discussion in person. I think that such constructs might even be helpful to avoid mistaken flamage. Remember the old Morse code where there were "abbreviations" for common meanings, such as SOS? Or hows about the 10-codes that have been so misused as to be meaningless? (10-4 being the most abused...) YMMV, and IMNSHO. :-). -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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