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Tobiah

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May 10, 2022, 11:20:43 AM5/10/22
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Had to Google it. Came right up.

Chris K-Man

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May 12, 2022, 6:22:25 AM5/12/22
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On Tuesday, May 10, 2022 at 11:20:43 AM UTC-4, Tobiah wrote:
> Had to Google it. Came right up.
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English is dead in 21st century.

Acronyms and abbreviations rule

:(...

Phil W

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May 12, 2022, 6:48:37 AM5/12/22
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Chris K-Man:
> :-( ...

the same applies to other languages - and we all know, not only
languages, but senseful thinking and logic, too...

Do you know the song by NoFX "The Idiots Are Taking Over"?
It´s far from new, but foreseeably even more applicable than when it
came out.

geoff

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May 12, 2022, 10:03:02 PM5/12/22
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On 11/05/2022 3:20 am, Tobiah wrote:
> Had to Google it.  Came right up.
>

About 15 years or more late to the party !

geoff

Chris K-Man

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May 12, 2022, 10:45:53 PM5/12/22
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The only "foreign" language I cannot tolerate is "HBD BFF," and other stuff
folks today are too fucking lazy to T Y P E IT O U T I N F U L L

geoff

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May 13, 2022, 3:16:43 AM5/13/22
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How about FOAD ?

geoff

Chris K-Man

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May 14, 2022, 6:48:53 PM5/14/22
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How about spelling it out, for once?

david gourley

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May 15, 2022, 9:00:15 AM5/15/22
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g_wolf <g_w...@howl.com> said...news:aO_fK.573$cvmb...@fx06.iad:

>
> Well it most certainly don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. I
> suspect most younger folks have no idea about the Count and Ms Ella..
>
> BTW, does anyone know what a Quantum duck says?
>


Quark quark ?

david

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g_wolf

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May 15, 2022, 11:02:54 AM5/15/22
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On 5/15/2022 8:00 AM, david gourley wrote:
> g_wolf <g_w...@howl.com> said...news:aO_fK.573$cvmb...@fx06.iad:
>
>>
>> Well it most certainly don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. I
>> suspect most younger folks have no idea about the Count and Ms Ella..
>>
>> BTW, does anyone know what a Quantum duck says?
>>
>
>
> Quark quark ?
>
> david
>

Yes !! We have a winner !!

Tobiah

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May 17, 2022, 10:33:37 AM5/17/22
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Actually, I understood the subject's acronym just fine!
I'm also familiar with the tune evoked by the comic but
didn't put it together until I googled the caption.


Toby

Chris K-Man

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May 18, 2022, 6:16:47 AM5/18/22
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The problem is people actually write, and talk, like that.

It's impossible, for someone like me over fifty, to understand
what the heck folks are talking about any more!

This amazing thing called the internet has ruined common
discourse, and has also harshened our political difference

Tobiah

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May 19, 2022, 10:28:55 AM5/19/22
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I'm 56, and all I have to say is ARBFTE :)

Angus Kerr

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Jun 1, 2022, 9:12:56 AM6/1/22
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Since I was first on r.a.p. in my thirties (I'm now 56), these acronyms were around

They are not new.

John Williamson

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Jun 1, 2022, 11:57:14 AM6/1/22
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Originally on dial up bulletin boards as used before usenet, because
connections were s l o w, (300 baud when I started) and you could work
out a cost per byte...

They saved bandwidth, and let others know you were one of the "in" crowd.

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Tciao for Now!

John.

Chris K-Man

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Jun 1, 2022, 10:19:49 PM6/1/22
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F- the "in crowd". I choose to talk - and type - like a normal
person, not a string of letters, like C3PO might understand

geoff

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Jun 2, 2022, 1:39:08 AM6/2/22
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Unfortunately not 'think' though.

CP3O - OK, what does that mean ? Crap, Poo, bum-shape, Orifice ?

geoff

John Williamson

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Jun 2, 2022, 5:03:22 AM6/2/22
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On 02/06/2022 03:19, Chris K-Man wrote:

> F- the "in crowd". I choose to talk - and type - like a normal
> person, not a string of letters, like C3PO might understand
>
That is your choice. Had you been on line when I was first on line, you
would have been using the same abbreviations as the rest of us, for the
same reasons. We also logged on, downloaded all the messages, logged
off, then composed replies offline and sent them as a batch when we next
logged on. Good snipping of extraneous material in a post was a
necessary skill.

The luxury we have now of many megabauds of transmission bandwidth, and
not paying per kilobyte and second on line for using it has changed
things over the last 40 years or so, though phone keyboards have brought
many of the abbreviations back into use to save typing time. Txtspk is
just a modification of what we used in the 1970s. The yoofers who use it
now think it's NEW! and EXCITING! and use it as a way to get round the
160 character limit on SMS messages and the old 140 character limit on
Twitter.

Cul8r. :-)

Chris K-Man

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Jun 2, 2022, 6:49:39 AM6/2/22
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"Cul 8 r"? Never mind, anywho..

My biggest issue is that people - of today - have adopted this
"txtspk" into their daily, non-internet, verbal and written discourse.

Someone left a post-it on my locker door at work: "HBD, Chris!"

My first step was to find the individual who left it there. My
second step was to ask them to translate it into something I
understood:

"Happy Birthday!"

Now is it really that much effort to write happy birthday on
that same post-it? Has this thing called the internet made us
that lazy to type out such a common, simple expression as ones
annual milestone?

Chris K-Man

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Jun 2, 2022, 6:53:16 AM6/2/22
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Re: C3PO

Watch Star Wars much?

Original 1977 android character.

david gourley

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Jun 2, 2022, 11:40:06 AM6/2/22
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Chris K-Man <thekma...@gmail.com> said...news:52a06feb-719c-401c-badf-
304086...@googlegroups.com:
So, did you thank him for remembering your birthday or did you scold him
accordingly?

Ty Ford

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Jun 2, 2022, 11:41:45 AM6/2/22
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Stop your complaining!

LSMFT - Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/oldest-abbreviations-in-english/

Regards,

Ty Ford

John Williamson

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Jun 2, 2022, 11:48:08 AM6/2/22
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On 02/06/2022 16:41, Ty Ford wrote:
> Stop your complaining!
>
> LSMFT - Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.
>
> https://www.dictionary.com/e/oldest-abbreviations-in-english/
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LOL! :-)

geoff

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Jun 2, 2022, 5:03:13 PM6/2/22
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Joke. All-round not very good a perceptual matters, eh.

geoff

Richard Kuschel

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Jun 4, 2022, 11:05:11 AM6/4/22
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I like R2D2. It was on a film can (Reel 2 Dialog 2,)but George Lucas liked the rhythm of it and used it for C3PO's robot buddy
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