From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 23 17:49:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4621337B42C for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:49:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by wantadilla.lemis.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e8O0nPr80486; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:19:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:19:24 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Francesco Casadei Cc: freebsd-questions mailing list Subject: Re: Abbreviations Message-ID: <20000924101924.G65590@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20000923203434.A1313@goku.kasby> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000923203434.A1313@goku.kasby>; from fcasadei@inwind.it on Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 08:34:34PM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 23 September 2000 at 20:34:34 +0200, Francesco Casadei wrote: > I'm sorry if this question is not directly FreeBSD-related, but I > think it could help not-English (or not-American) people, like me, to > better understand messages posted to this list. > > What do abbreviations like IMHO, BTW, FWIW, etc... mean? > > My guesses are: > * IM(H)O: In My (Humile) Opinion As somebody else observed, Humble. > * BTW: By The Way > * FWIW: For What Is Worth For What It's Worth. > * WTF: What The F*** (I hope I'm completely wrong here!) Nope, that's it. > Please correct and/or fill this list, so I can understand what I'm > reading! > > If you think that this list could be useful, it could be posted > regularly like Greg Lehey's email or even appended to it, tough it's > my understanding that he advises against using an unclear language > (correct me if I'm wrong, Greg). Hmm. I think a link to something like acronymfinder would be more appropriate. My message relates specifically to the FreeBSD lists, while the acronyms are used everywhere. I'll think about it. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message