Quoting Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): > Hi Steve, list,
All: OH HAI! > On more than one occasion I've found that some acronym "flashers" are > just wildly flapping arms and waving hands in thin air trying to make an > impresssion rather than "knowledgeable experts". Anyone serious about > trying to get something across to an audience whose knowledge level is > not known a priori would spell it out first time around (with the > acronym in parentheses) *or* provide a link to a (wikipedia?) page > explaining the thing. I appreciate not having to deploy radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging) to find your meaning. But would you mind explaining that again using a laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) pointer? Goodbye (god be with ye), Rick M. Etc. (et cetera). Please excuse me, I believe I need to walk around a pram (perambulator) in order to board my bus (short for omnibus, meaning to or for, by, with, or from everybody - which is a very good description, as Michael Flanders said).[1] [1] https://www.elyrics.net/read/f/flanders-&-swann-lyrics/a-transport-of-delight-lyrics.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
