Re: Acronyms

[Paul Williams paulwilliams5@xxxxxxxx]

Your Mileage Might Vary? A lot of meaning? What?

PW

Wendell Cochran wrote:

> > Date:     Sun, 11 Apr 1999 14:29:05 -0700
> > From:     L Anderson 
>
> > Adriano Ortile wrote:
> > >
> > > For all nice people who want answer me.
> > > I make any effort to understand and improve my English;
> >
> > Your objectives are admirable but I'm not sure learning Internet
> > jargon will help you do that. However, if you insist, you may want
> > to check out
> >
> > http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
> >
> 
>
> FOLDOC (Free On-Line Dictionary Of Computing) is mirrored at
>
> http://www.nightflight.com/foldoc/
>
> As for the acronyms & initialisms, well, I thought pig Latin
> fascinating -- for a few days, at age 6.  Long afterward I spent
> some years discouraging PhDs from flaunting their own dialects in
> print.
>
> OTOH, a lot of meaning is packed into Your Mileage May Vary -- YMMV.
>
> Wendell Cochran
> West Seattle
>
> Ob-PS: Alas, FOLDOC doesn't know 'XyWrite'. It will.