I like the part about the mysterious existence of information which seems to exist for a millisecond like a passing snowflake, but only seems to twinkle and disappear, because it then enters a near vegetative existence from which it may suddenly be resuscitated at any time like King Arthur. Though such information is mainly resuscitated by one's political opponents. Me, I'm buying a fountain pen and I'm going to compose essays and prove I am not a robot to a future generation
I always figured this was the reason it was called "reddit."
On the opposite end of the etiquette spectrum, you have 'old people spam' wherein decade(s)-old false virus warnings and fact-free political rants untouched by a courtesy Snopes checks are forwarded from various relatives. ( I received one from someone somewhat within my own age range recently - *really* depressing. lol. )
Pet Peeve: online info without dates and poor dating functionality on search engines.
What does this even mean? I stared at it for minutes before I deduced that it may mean "In Case You Missed It." Is this it? Why don't people just fucking type what they mean to say rather than expect us to puzzle over these enigmatic acronyms?
Before the 'Net, it could be a problem when you wrote something obvious in a memo, etc. leading up to your conclusion. That is, someone easily offended, might feel that you were condescending.
Thus, boilerplate phrases were added such as "as you know" or "as you are no doubt aware" or, here "in case you missed it".
Some of these boilerplate phrases, have been, as with WW II military phrases such as "SNAFU" or "AWOL" which have come into civilian life, reduced to acronyms.
You can GOOGLE "ICYMI" or "ROFL" & you'll be au courant.
Next lesson: "Frequent Foreign Phrases Used By Smartasses To Make Them Sound Smart"
In today's internet more of some of these "polite-ese" phrases have been shortened into acronyms
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Time to make the doughnuts... fried doughnuts.
"Stale" is more descriptive than old.
The blog-readers here at Althouse rely on Ann to keep us informed of relevant matters and to filter out the rest.
I like the part about the mysterious existence of information which seems to exist for a millisecond like a passing snowflake, but only seems to twinkle and disappear, because it then enters a near vegetative existence from which it may suddenly be resuscitated at any time like King Arthur. Though such information is mainly resuscitated by one's political opponents.
Me, I'm buying a fountain pen and I'm going to compose essays and prove I am not a robot to a future generation
I always figured this was the reason it was called "reddit."
On the opposite end of the etiquette spectrum, you have 'old people spam' wherein decade(s)-old false virus warnings and fact-free political rants untouched by a courtesy Snopes checks are forwarded from various relatives. ( I received one from someone somewhat within my own age range recently - *really* depressing. lol. )
Pet Peeve: online info without dates and poor dating functionality on search engines.
"Repost" as a comment, followed by insults to the posting individual, are the typical response to re-use of original content on reddit.
Without reference to the originator of material, declaiming something for one's own use, as if oneself originated it, used to be called plagiarism.
Or pulling a "Biden" if a US politician did so.
What does this even mean? I stared at it for minutes before I deduced that it may mean "In Case You Missed It." Is this it? Why don't people just fucking type what they mean to say rather than expect us to puzzle over these enigmatic acronyms?
R Cook
Before the 'Net, it could be a problem when you wrote something obvious in a memo, etc. leading up to your conclusion. That is, someone easily offended, might feel that you were condescending.
Thus, boilerplate phrases were added such as "as you know" or "as you are no doubt aware" or, here "in case you missed it".
Some of these boilerplate phrases, have been, as with WW II military phrases such as "SNAFU" or "AWOL" which have come into civilian life, reduced to acronyms.
You can GOOGLE "ICYMI" or "ROFL" & you'll be au courant.
Next lesson: "Frequent Foreign Phrases Used By Smartasses To Make Them Sound Smart"
In today's internet more of some of these "polite-ese" phrases have been shortened into acronyms
Last line should have been removed in my last post.
sorry
IMIBHAL.
I missed it by having a life.
I was going to comment, but then clicked through and found 1200 words on ICYMI. IMI.
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