OT: Forgive my ignorance

mamav

mamav

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Can someone tell me what IIRC means when used in typical computer shorthand???? :confused:

Thanks.
 
Thank you. I just couldn't quite figure that one out.....Ok so i'm slow. :rolleyes: :D
 
that's ok, IYKWIM


well.....IMHO


YMMV.


:D :p
 
Shortening life into initials is a system for fools.

It promotes superficial understanding. Oh, I think we'll survive its 'evil' and sloppy impact, but it does cheapen us.

My Dad told me in his day if you pulled up to a house and honked- instead of coming to the front door and knocking, you had no class.

Our society is losing its class. There are many ways we degrade ourselves.

imho


munk
 
IYKWIM- If You Know What I Mean

IMHO- In MY Honest Opinion

YMMV- Your Milage May Vary

Brian
 
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for what it's worth
if i recall correctly
just my opinion
my 2-cents
your mileage may vary
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ddean, I've trying to guess those last two acronyms in your signature line since they first appeared ...gave up long ago
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munk said:
Shortening life into initials is a system for fools.

It promotes superficial understanding. Oh, I think we'll survive its 'evil' and sloppy impact, but it does cheapen us.

My Dad told me in his day if you pulled up to a house and honked- instead of coming to the front door and knocking, you had no class.

Our society is losing its class. There are many ways we degrade ourselves.

imho


munk
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Can't argue with your basic premise that our society is losing it's class, but using abbreviations and rudely sitting in your car and honking are two entirely different things IMO.

Using acronyms and abbreviations to shorten things into logical chunks that can be more easily mentally assimilated is a necessity in business. Especially in IT and also especially in the military. In flying as well there are hundreds of them. When a controller is busy handling 14 different aircraft each at differing altitudes and speeds, he does NOT want to hear that you have "listened to the Automated Terminal Information Service and have information Yankee." He wants to hear a quick and concise "have ATIS", or even better "with Yankee."

In IT there are thousands of acronyms and you simply can't function without them. I asked one of my guys to put together a list of all the acronyms and abbreviations we used at work in relation to our networking system, our custom contracts and our internal processes, just so I could get a handle on it. He gave me a list with over 500 items on it 3 days later, and is still adding to it. It would add literally hours each week to refer to all these things with their full designations in each e-mail, business requirement document and other business communications.

Maybe sloppy, and maybe a shortcut, and maybe it degrades us somehow (although I am not sure how) but a necessity nonetheless.


Goodbye, (sorry to be so superficial and lazy, but didn't want to type out "God Be With Ye." ;) :D)

Norm
 
As I grow older I find the militray acronym more important--

RTFM ----- "Read The Freaking Manual" Well it is not "Freaking" but this is a family forum.

Used to be that I opened the box, got out whatever I had just purchased and plugged it in. Now I read the manual first. I am amazed at all the things my various gridleys can do!

My father, a Navy man, routinely got unreal long mileage out of automobiles, like 400k on a Chevrolet. I asked him how he managed that and he said that he did what the Manual said and he did it when the manual said do it.

IMHO --- In My Humble Opinion
 
Can't argue with your basic premise that our society is losing it's class, but using abbreviations and rudely sitting in your car and honking are two entirely different things IMO.>>>>>>>>>> Swashtar


I can see an abbreviation, as in DNA. I can see short hand in certain fields, specializations, even the military. But abbreviations have gone into the larger society, in places they have no meaning. You wanna go to BK, Burger King? Be my guest. Or do you want to be Bound, Tortured and Killed?

Not too many years ago advertising on your clothing for major corporations would have been seen as obscene, or silly, or why? Is it my shirt or does it belong to Budweiser? I paid for it; what does Bud have to do with it? Today clothes are marketed deliberately for advertisement, and we can't get enough.

AS is our speech. Our speech now carries advertisement.

And there are ideas and contexts, relationships that are being devoured by this shorthand. Some contexts can be condensed, there are others that will be given short shrift.
Exactly like pulling up to the curb and honking.

It's as inevitable as slang, which it goes very well with. It's not all bad. IMO is nice. Some will make it to the Dictionary. But most, as Bill Cosby said, not too long ago and angrily about black speech, is simply garbage and the inability to communicate.

It's the future. I'm just observing it.

munk
 
DILLIGAF is a favorite of mine, too. There used to be a shop near Grangeville, ID with a big sign on the roof that said DILLIGAF Pawn and PayDay Loans. I had to laugh at the thought of any poor bastard who might borrow money from that guy.
 
I think my favorite "long one" that I actually use is Heinlein's TANSTAAFL. Will always be true.

Norm
 
FWIW is a good one.

YMMV is always something to keep in mind when telling someone else what you do, or what they ought to do, to achieve some hoped-for outcome.

ROTFL or ROTFLMAO is sometimes useful, but I find LOL works for most situations.
 
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