HELP
Can somebody please, pleeeease create a new 'Lexicon' section for all the odd acronyms in compu-speak that keep cropping up.
Then if an author feels like compiling an acronym of their own they can throw it in 'willy-nilly' or is that 'w-n'and leave an alphabetical translation in the 'Lexicon' section.
It's getting quite frustrating when authors leave ten letter acronyms that don't make sense to other readers, especially old farties, (like me who don't do geek-speak,) and foreign readers.
P.S. I don't do cryptic crosswords either.
Beverly.
If I had the computer skills I'd offer to help Erin place a 'foreign language and acronym lexicon' on the site but I'm a dummy when it comes to computers cos they jus' did'n exist when I was a kid and it's 'old dog new tricks' now.
Comments
Have you tried...
...doing an internet search on the acronyms? Or alternatively, compile a list of the ones that are confusing you the most, post it up here, and I'm sure one of the more geeky members of the site will post expansions and explanations...
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Acronym Finder
You might want to attach Acronym Finder right to your search bar. It's very good for the geeky and bureaucratic ones and pretty good for the chat ones You might have to go the Wiki anyway to find out what the heck the definitions mean though.
When it fails, Urban Dictionary will have the gamer, hipster, porno, slang ones (at least most North American ones, but they get past for some Australian, British and Irish slang too). And after that google will tell you if anyone has ever used it before.
Urban Dictionary
has the problem of outright lies making it into the "official" definitions. I had an argument with them once about the definition of a word which was slanted toward stupidity, to no avail. Take everything you see there with a very large pinch of salt.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
LOL
Bev,I have replied to that one on the story's comments (Cold Feet). It is not a ten letter acronym, it's just part of the previous sentence. Sort of like Loudon Wainwright's song IDTTYWLM (I don't think that your wife likes me)
It's called being lazy
I avoid the use of acronyms. I work in a technical field where people try to use acronyms all the time, sometimes causing expensive damage when the acronym is misunderstood. I'm afraid it is a side effect of the popularity of texting. (Something else I don't do)
Mr. Ram
Creativity
Every human being who can speak is an artist in words, and like any artist, we humans get bored of producing the same words every day, so words and meanings drift as the creative winds blow. "Twenty-three skidoo!" was at one time a part of the lexicon of most people in the USA and elsewhere around the world, but not any more. Today, many know what ROFL and warez mean. It's a creative act, not negligence.
That inevitable drift is what turned Old English into Middle English and that into Modern English. That drift will eventually turn Modern English into something else.
That's the way it goes.
Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style
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Cheers,
Puddin'
A tender heart is an asset to an editor: it helps us be ruthless in a tactful way.
--- The Chicago Manual of Style