- Matthew <matthew.cole_at_...> wrote:
> I have come to believe that this list is becoming
> too exclusive. That
> we're not allowing so-called 'outsiders' access or
> at least that entry
> is being made, unwittingly, difficult.
> To what am I referring? Well, it's the common use of
> encoded
> abbreviations. For example: YGMV, RW, UW etc.
> BTW (!) we have to decide what to do with webspeke
> ones like BTW, FWIW,
> IMO etc. They are, admittedly, commonly used across
> the web but are we
> really going to be a group where non-internet-savvy
> people are excluded
> to *any* extent. It would be easy to put a
> translation of all these
> terms in a central place.
> What does everyone think?
>
I guessed that RW = real world, and UW = Unspoken
World. I think IMO = in my opinion, and FWIW = for
what its worth. When I run across the others, I draw a
blank. I try to guess, or just wipe out the message as
unintelligible. I am rather new to the net, but I have
been connected for eight months, and I get driven to
distraction by a lot of the abbreviations. I for one
would like a translation.
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