What does AUE mean?
Magda Regina Gomes da Silva
I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some of
the messages?
Thanks a lot,
Magda Regina Gomes da Silva
mags...@sti.com.br
Johan Wijkmark
<77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>...
>Hi, everyone!
>
>I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
>Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some
of
>the messages?
alt.usage.english
Johan
Murray Arnow
> Hi, everyone!
> I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
> Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some of
> the messages?
> Thanks a lot,
> Magda Regina Gomes da Silva
It is the abbreviation for Alt.Usage.English.
Brian J Goggin
<mags...@sti.com.br> wrote:
>I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
>Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some of
>the messages?
AUE (or aue) is alt.usage.english, which is the name of this
newsgroup.
Welcome to the gang.
bjg [post & mail]
James Follett
mags...@sti.com.br "Magda Regina Gomes da Silva" writes:
>I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
>Could you please tell me what AUE means...
This sort of question makes me wonder if there is anything unique
about my nearly 10-years-old DOS-based newsreader which displays the
full name of the newsgroup at the top of the screen in the header panel.
I thought all newsreaders did the same.
--
James Follett -- novelist http://www.davew.demon.co.uk
JB
>
> In article <77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>
> mags...@sti.com.br "Magda Regina Gomes da Silva" writes:
>
> >I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
> >Could you please tell me what AUE means...
>
> This sort of question makes me wonder if there is anything unique
> about my nearly 10-years-old DOS-based newsreader which displays the
> full name of the newsgroup at the top of the screen in the header panel.
> I thought all newsreaders did the same.
Many fail to capitalize AUE, showing it as aue, which might look like a
word in some contexts. --JB
Aaron J. Dinkin
I spell it <a.u.e>; I don't particularly like either <AUE> or <aue>, but I
suppose <AUE> is preferable.
-Aaron J. Dinkin
Dr. Whom
Padraig Breathnach
> Magda Regina Gomes da Silva
> >I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
> >Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some
of
> >the messages?
>
>
> alt.usage.english
>
That simply tells Magda what AUE represents in abbreviated form. What
alt.usage.english means is a somewhat more profound and puzzling question.
Any offers?
PB
Rhialto
Magda Regina Gomes da Silva wrote in message
<77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>...
>Hi, everyone!
>
>I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
>Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some of
>the messages?
Either this person has a newsreader which does not display teh full name of
teh newsgroup, or she is asking about teh specific meaning of the full
title, or she has a chronic inability to think.
I hope it is option number 2. 1 is unlikely and 3 is unthikabubble.
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JB
>
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:53:32 GMT, JB <JBjo...@flash.net> wrote:
>
> >James Follett wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>
> >>
> >> >I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
> >>
> >> This sort of question makes me wonder if there is anything unique
> >> about my nearly 10-years-old DOS-based newsreader which displays the
> >> full name of the newsgroup at the top of the screen in the header panel.
> >> I thought all newsreaders did the same.
> >
> >Many fail to capitalize AUE, showing it as aue, which might look like a
>
> I don't capitalize "aue" because it's Usenet convention to use lower
> case for newsgroup names -- for Internet addresses in general, in
> fact.
> Mimi
hey then mimi how cum u dont copy all them other illitret usenet custums
lak mispelt wurds n cRaZy lEtTeRs n stuff lak that n no commas r perods
r that junk n no caps anywheres cept 4 SHOUTING n espeshly not 4 abbrevs
lak usa n ussr n uk n gb anyways aint no group calt aue noways whut kind
of name is that huh anser me that huh --jb
Truly Donovan
Follett) wrote:
>In article <77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>
> mags...@sti.com.br "Magda Regina Gomes da Silva" writes:
>
>>I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
>>Could you please tell me what AUE means...
>
>This sort of question makes me wonder if there is anything unique
>about my nearly 10-years-old DOS-based newsreader which displays the
>full name of the newsgroup at the top of the screen in the header panel.
>I thought all newsreaders did the same.
I don't think it is necessarily the case that a newcomer would
automatically make the association between the newsgroup name and its
initialism, even if the name is emblazoned across the top of the
screen in 36-point reverse magenta blinking Alhambra.
So I think you can assume that your implications of deficiency on the
part of non-DOS non-decadent newsreaders have misfired.
WIMPy interfaces may leave a lot to be desired, but that doesn't make
DOS interfaces acceptable in decent company.
--
Truly Donovan
reply to truly at lunemere dot com
Truly Donovan
<rhi...@chikyuujin.earthling.net> wrote:
>
>Magda Regina Gomes da Silva wrote in message
><77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>...
>>Hi, everyone!
>>
>>I realize I may be asking a silly question, but I am new to this NG.
>>Could you please tell me what AUE means so I can better understand some of
>>the messages?
>
>
>Either this person has a newsreader which does not display teh full name of
>teh newsgroup, or she is asking about teh specific meaning of the full
>title, or she has a chronic inability to think.
>
>I hope it is option number 2. 1 is unlikely and 3 is unthikabubble.
I think you have missed at least one whole possibility here, and that
is that the person has not made a connection between "AUE" found in
the body of messages and "alt.usage.english" found elsewhere.
Reinhold (Rey) Aman
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 19:53:32 GMT, JB <JBjo...@flash.net> wrote:
> >Many fail to capitalize AUE, showing it as aue, which might look like a
> >word in some contexts. --JB
> I don't capitalize "aue" because it's Usenet convention to use lower
> case for newsgroup names -- for Internet addresses in general, in
> fact.
Bullshit! The *main* reason why the Moron does not use "AUE" is
because *I* have always used the all-caps version -- and Mrs. Kahn has
said so in one of her posts (without naming me but clearly referring to
me). That's a fact.
See Obese MeMe "The Whale" Kahn:
http://www.sonic.net/maledicta/meme-kahn.jpg
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Philip Newton
>
> In article <369D37FD...@flash.net>, JB <JBjo...@flash.net> wrote:
>
> > Many fail to capitalize AUE, showing it as aue, which might look like a
> > word in some contexts.
>
> suppose <AUE> is preferable.
How about <a.u.e.>? Sometimes I'm tempted to write that, before
remembering that it's "alt.usage.english" and not "alt.usage.english." .
Cheers,
Philip
Magda Regina Gomes da Silva
Many thanks to all those who responded!
Regards,
Magda
Magda Regina Gomes da Silva escreveu na mensagem
<77i56g$quk$1...@news.sti.com.br>...
>Hi, everyone!
>
>I realize I may be asking a silly question, (...)
Magda Regina Gomes da Silva
Truly Donovan escreveu na mensagem <36b14c31...@news3.ibm.net>...
>
>I think you have missed at least one whole possibility here, and that
>is that the person has not made a connection between "AUE" found in
>the body of messages and "alt.usage.english" found elsewhere.
>
>--
>Truly Donovan
>reply to truly at lunemere dot com
Which is precisely what happened!
And besides, I knew I was risking asking a silly question...
Thanks again to al those who responded, especially for making me feel
"welcome to the gang"!
Magda
James Follett
tr...@lunemere.com "Truly Donovan" writes:
>So I think you can assume that your implications of deficiency on the
>part of non-DOS non-decadent newsreaders have misfired.
>
>WIMPy interfaces may leave a lot to be desired, but that doesn't make
>DOS interfaces acceptable in decent company.
You're so right, of course. I get eaten up with envy watching the
way my wife deals so assertively with her Windows-based genealogy
software. My problem is that I am ill-equipped emotionally to cope
with terrible self-doubts that plague Windows software. I can't click
on all those seemingly endless `OK?' queries in a casual manner
without feeling that I ought to, at least, offer some sort of
counselling -- particularly when the Windows-based software breaks
down with all manner of confessions about how it's forgotten where
it's put files. To callously click on `OK' buttons when the software
is going through such torments amounts to kicking a confused
puppy that can't help chewing a favourite slipper. So I'm content
to let my DOS-based newsreader do its own thing every few hours by
automatically logging on, collecting mail etc, and logging off.
It does this even when I'm not around; it never seeks to unload its
problems on my hopelessly inadequate shoulders, and never tramatises
and terminates itself with the execution of invalid instructions.
CRC
There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. As you see, you
will encounter many of those here.
Chris
Robert Bryan Lipton
CRC wrote in message <369E25...@wxs.nl>...
>There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers. As you see, you
>will encounter many of those here.
>
Comments?
Bob
Lindsay Endell
In English Usage...
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Chris Canning
Mahatma Caine Jeeves wrote:
I am sorry but I do not understand your question and am probably not
qualified to answer it. Hope you find an answer though.
Chris
podi...@my-dejanews.com
"Mahatma Caine Jeeves" <SteveMa...@USA.Net> wrote:
> CRC wrote in message <369E25...@wxs.nl>...
>
> <<There are no stupid questions, ...>>
>
> Oh, yeah? If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a
> day and a half, how many shingles can a one-legged rooster lay on a
> doghouse?
Why do I get the feeling that this is not a stupid question but
a badly phrased riddle for the sharp AUE minds?
Anyway, are you a distant relative to The Mahatma himself? Couldn't be
with a name like SM!
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Reinhold (Rey) Aman
>
> CRC wrote in message <369E25...@wxs.nl>...
>
> <<There are no stupid questions, ...>>
>
> Oh, yeah? If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a
> day and a half, how many shingles can a one-legged rooster lay on a
> doghouse?
That's a trick question! Roosters lay *hens*, not shingles.
Truly Donovan
wrote:
>
>
>Mahatma Caine Jeeves wrote:
>
>> CRC wrote in message <369E25...@wxs.nl>...
>>
>> <<There are no stupid questions, ...>>
>>
>> Oh, yeah? If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a
>> day and a half, how many shingles can a one-legged rooster lay on a
>> doghouse?
>> --
>> ____ Go: It's all fun and games,
>I am sorry but I do not understand your question and am probably not
>qualified to answer it. Hope you find an answer though.
You left out the HTH part.
Chris Canning
Truly Donovan wrote:
What does THT stand for?
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Whiskers
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> On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 15:41:15 -0800 (PST), blake.jon...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> >Shit man, I'm here 16 years late. I wasn't even born when this was posted, Jesus
>
> According to the date above you posted it yesterday.
>
> Who knows where you will be in 16 years' time?
later, and there is a "contribution" by the sociopath whose first line calls
someone a moron.