What does ``FYI'' mean?
Tony Y. T. Chan
Ron O'Dell
>I may be the only person in the world who does not know this, but what does ``FYI'' mean?
I doubt you're the only person who doesn't know.
FYI = For Your Information
BTW = By The Way
IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
BRB = Be Right Back
FWIW = For What It's Worth
OTOH = On The Other Hand
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
hmm... I'm sure there are other abbreviations used on the net, but
those are the ones which come to my mind at this moment.
Not on the net, but another common one is DIY = Do It Yourself, used as
an adjective. "A DIY Guide to Nuclear Fission."
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Alan J Flavell
Oh, there are lots more: I'm sure I saw a huge list in an FAQ.
Take a look in news.answers (depending on your news master's
policy on expiry).
Many of them are more or less confined to computer/network usage,
but others enjoy more widespread currency: I often see FYI used
in other "walks of life".
Mark Line
>FYI = For Your Information
>BTW = By The Way
>IMHO = In My Humble Opinion
IMO = In My Opinion
>BRB = Be Right Back
>FWIW = For What It's Worth
>OTOH = On The Other Hand
>WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get
AFAIK = As Far As I Know
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Simon Patience
> In article <2h30d1$7...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
> kee...@cats.ucsc.edu (Ron O'Dell) writes:
>
> >FYI = For Your Information
> ... (list deleted for brevity)
>
> Oh, there are lots more: I'm sure I saw a huge list in an FAQ.
By your use of "an FAQ" does this mean you say "an F A Q" rather than
"a FACK"? Not that this is relevant to the subject of course.
OBrelevance: BTW, FAQ == Frequently Asked Questions
> Many of them are more or less confined to computer/network usage,
> but others enjoy more widespread currency: I often see FYI used
> in other "walks of life".
Such as in Murphey Brown (so I have been told, not that I ever watch it
myself you understand).
Simon.
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Ron Newman
> FYI = For Your Information
...
> hmm... I'm sure there are other abbreviations used on the net, but
> those are the ones which come to my mind at this moment.
I've seen "FYI" long before there was an Internet. It's been around
a while.
Mark Israel
> I may be the only person in the world who does not know this, but what
> does ``FYI'' mean?
It means "for your information". Be careful not to leave out the "I".
("FY" means "Fuck you!")
mis...@csi.uottawa.ca Mark Israel
kristin evenson
>I may be the only person in the world who does not know this, but what does ``FYI'' mean?
I've always thought that it meant For Your Information -- I often write FYI
on a copy of a letter or article that I give to a boss or coworker, when
I just want to inform them about what's going on, and they don't have to
take any action.
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Ron Galea
>I may be the only person in the world who does not know this, but what does ``FYI'' mean?
"For Your Information".
Rinaldo.
Ron O'Dell
I agree. I did not intend to suggest that all of the ones I listed
were invented on the net.
Roland Hutchinson
>Not on the net, but another common one is DIY = Do It Yourself, used as
>an adjective. "A DIY Guide to Nuclear Fission."
I somehow have the idea that the abbreviation DIY is much more
frequently used in the U.K. then in the good ol' U.S. of A.
Anybody care to comment?
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Neville Holmes
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>OBrelevance: BTW, FAQ == Frequently Asked Questions
>
Or, maybe, short for OBTW or O,btW or similar ?
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Anno Siegel
Neville Holmes <nho...@leven.appcomp.utas.edu.au> wrote:
>In article <2h3klm$2...@paperboy.osf.org>, s...@canal.osf.org (Simon Patience) writes:
>>
>>OBrelevance: BTW, FAQ == Frequently Asked Questions
>>
>OB ? (elsewhere Ob ? (not Siberia)) Is it just obvious, badly used ?
> Or, maybe, short for OBTW or O,btW or similar ?
From the Jargon File:
:Ob-: /ob/ pref. Obligatory. A piece of {netiquette}
acknowledging that the author has been straying from the
newsgroup's charter topic. For example, if a posting in alt.sex is
a response to a part of someone else's posting that has nothing
particularly to do with sex, the author may append `ObSex' (or
`Obsex') and toss off a question or vignette about some unusual
erotic act. It is considered a sign of great {winnitude} when
one's Obs are more interesting than other people's whole postings.
ObUsage: Could "obligate" be used instead of "obligatory"?
Anno
Raphael Mankin
anno...@w172zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE "Anno Siegel" writes:
>
> ObUsage: Could "obligate" be used instead of "obligatory"?
>
To me "obligate" is a verb; not an adjective. And, unlike many verbs,
I would never use it as a noun.
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Xin Guo
Thanks.
Fred Lukoff
Repondez, s'il vous plait, French for "please reply." Commonly used on
invitations.
I've heard this being used as a verb often as well, as in "Have you
RSVPed yet?" Anyone else?
(I'm from Seattle, Washington, USA)
Ben
George Quinlan
>What does RSVP stand for?
>
Repondez s'il vous plait.
It means "please answer" and is generally used in formal invitations.
>Thanks.
>
>
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Anno Siegel
Raphael Mankin <ra...@panache.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <2hdmnk$j...@brachio.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE>
> anno...@w172zrz.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE "Anno Siegel" writes:
>> ObUsage: Could "obligate" be used instead of "obligatory"?
>To me "obligate" is a verb; not an adjective. And, unlike many verbs,
>I would never use it as a noun.
Apparently, obligate is used as an adjective in biology, and probably
only there. As in "an obligate parasite" for a parasite that can't
survive without a host organism.
Anno
Daniel P Valentine
>In article <2h30d1$7...@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, kee...@cats.ucsc.edu (Ron O'Dell) writes...
>>
>What does RSVP stand for?
>Thanks.
It's for the French "repondez s'il vous plait", meaning "please reply".
BTW, is there any standard way to express accents like the ones missing from
the above quote?
Dan Valentine
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