Who should be first up against the wall?
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People that use acronyms because they are too lazy to type out the full words.
Help stamp out acronyms.
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Y? U h8 txtspk?
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I GUESS I AM TOO OLD. I believe that Cell Phones should only be used for making and receiving calls, Idiots who text while they are driving should be imprisoned. So I guess I do hate texting and "text speech" In all its forms. Acronyms about technical things and concepts are poor communication. They are easily misinterpreted and confusing for those unacquainted with the concepts or devices they are meant to refer to, and force many, myself included, into too many Wikipedia lookups. I also wonder are those that use them trying to show that they are "insiders" and "belong". I guess it is just a generational thing. I also would like to point out that I enjoy and look forward to your "Thought for the Day".
Help stamp out Acronyms. Texting is Evil.
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WTF - you hate LAUs? Its just a harmless TLA. TTYL.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
I literally failed to understand a single acronym you used. Please see my response to the Original Griff. I don't know what you tried to tell me but right back at you.
Help stamp out acronyms. Texting is evil.
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I GUESS I AM TOO OLD. I believe that Cell Phones should only be used for making and receiving calls, Idiots who text while they are driving should be imprisoned. So I guess I do hate texting and "text speech" In all its forms. Acronyms about technical things and concepts are poor communication. They are easily misinterpreted and confusing for those unacquainted with the concepts or devices they are meant to refer to, and force many, myself included, into too many Wikipedia lookups. I also wonder are those that use them trying to show that they are "insiders" and "belong". I guess it is just a generational thing. I also would like to point out that I enjoy and look forward to your "Thought for the Day".
Help stamp out Acronyms. Texting is Evil.
I'm guessing you are younger than I am - but I don't like txtspk either, particularly when you have access to a "proper" keyboard and can actually type... And it does seem to be dying, except among idiots since it's harder to type txtspk into a modern phone than it is to use English (thanks to the equally idiotic autocorrect). Text messages have their place: think of them as an email that goes "ping!" pretty immediately and they are genuinely useful. "I'm stuck in a meeting, be late for supper" and so forth. I also use them to talk to friends who can't use a phone at work. And texting while driving is something I have never been guilty of: for most of the time in the early days of text I was on a motorcycle, and you just can't text in big thick Kevlar gloves... :laugh:
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I'm guessing you are younger than I am - but I don't like txtspk either, particularly when you have access to a "proper" keyboard and can actually type... And it does seem to be dying, except among idiots since it's harder to type txtspk into a modern phone than it is to use English (thanks to the equally idiotic autocorrect). Text messages have their place: think of them as an email that goes "ping!" pretty immediately and they are genuinely useful. "I'm stuck in a meeting, be late for supper" and so forth. I also use them to talk to friends who can't use a phone at work. And texting while driving is something I have never been guilty of: for most of the time in the early days of text I was on a motorcycle, and you just can't text in big thick Kevlar gloves... :laugh:
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I'll bet I'm older than you. I'll be 69 in a few months. how about you. I am way too un-coordinated to ride a motor bike or any 2 or 3 wheeled vehicle.
I don't know. I just don't.
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I'll bet I'm older than you. I'll be 69 in a few months. how about you. I am way too un-coordinated to ride a motor bike or any 2 or 3 wheeled vehicle.
I don't know. I just don't.
I yield, by 9 years (my Big Six Oh in next month) :laugh: Riding keeps you attentive. If you don't pay attention it gets painful very quickly ...
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musefan wrote:
A sentence is just a an ordered list of words**, following a grammar**
It list of words much more than is. :)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I give you an 'A' (because your list needs one!)
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
:-O
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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People that use acronyms because they are too lazy to type out the full words.
Help stamp out acronyms.
LOL TARFUN, FUBAR IYKWIM.
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I was safe until I got to the last item in your list.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013Same here. I irritate everyone, so, I think I would be the first to go. :sigh:
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Actually, a sentence is a string type. A list would be a collection of string types. Just saying. :-D
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I literally failed to understand a single acronym you used. Please see my response to the Original Griff. I don't know what you tried to tell me but right back at you.
Help stamp out acronyms. Texting is evil.
WTF Welcome To Facebook
you Your Opinion Unwanted
hate Hackers Against Tyranny Everywhere
LAU Lebanese American University
Its Interim Targeting Solution
just Japan Universal System Transport
harmless High-Speed Anti-Radar Missile (without any)
TLA Technology Licensing Agreement
TTYL Talk to You LouderDoes it make sense now? :laugh:
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I yield, by 9 years (my Big Six Oh in next month) :laugh: Riding keeps you attentive. If you don't pay attention it gets painful very quickly ...
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60 didn't bother me. I have a feeling 70 will be entirely different... ;P
Getting old is hell! It does beat the alternative, but not by much...
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WTF Welcome To Facebook
you Your Opinion Unwanted
hate Hackers Against Tyranny Everywhere
LAU Lebanese American University
Its Interim Targeting Solution
just Japan Universal System Transport
harmless High-Speed Anti-Radar Missile (without any)
TLA Technology Licensing Agreement
TTYL Talk to You LouderDoes it make sense now? :laugh:
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Less than before :sigh:
Some things make sense, some you just have to take on faith.
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LOL TARFUN, FUBAR IYKWIM.
What? (that's not an acronym). But Whatever you like, I'm not sure I care anymore. Please send me a dictionary of acronyms and what they all mean, if you do.
Help stamp out poor communications. Start with acronyms.
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What? (that's not an acronym). But Whatever you like, I'm not sure I care anymore. Please send me a dictionary of acronyms and what they all mean, if you do.
Help stamp out poor communications. Start with acronyms.
Here ya go. :-D Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others. Same thing when you are stupid.
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I literally failed to understand a single acronym you used. Please see my response to the Original Griff. I don't know what you tried to tell me but right back at you.
Help stamp out acronyms. Texting is evil.
Although OG has done his usual admirable job I translate for you: What The F(oulword) - you hate Lazy Acronym Users? Its just a harmless Three Letter Acronym.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Here ya go. :-D Find out what any acronym, abbreviation, or initialism stands for
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others. Same thing when you are stupid.
Thanks.
Old men need love too!
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No, not THAT wall... Come the revolution, should it be? - Politicians? - Lawyers? - Insurance salesmen? - Telephone salesmen? - Those people who think I should have said "Salespersons" in the previous two options? - Marketing people? - The person that said at the Golden Globes, in the future, they are only going to make movies where 50% of the people involved are women? (Presumably regardless of talent) Feel free to vote for these or add your own choices (with optional justification)...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Yes.
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Yes.
