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IMHO, some have multiple meanings; the author needs to specify his intended meaning.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: some have multiple meanings; the author needs to specify his intended meaning.
Whilst that is true to some extent, the multiple meanings generally have the same sentiment and are largely interchangeable without detracting from the meaning of the poster.
The only exception to that that immediately springs to mind is Chris Maunder's weird interpretation of WTF
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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CMS could be a particular product (the Code Management System of OpenVMS) or a type of product (any Content Management System).
ADA could be a programming language or the Americans with Disabilities Act.
MS could be Microsoft or Multiple Sclerosis.
And I may be the only person likely to use JYIS, so what will the system do with it?
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Once again, what you say is true but those are not the sort of acronym that I mean. The acronyms I am referring to are those that are abbreviations of everyday non tech-speak phrases (AFAIK, IMHO, FYI, LOL, LMAO, RTM, RTFM etc.)
PIEBALDconsult wrote: And I may be the only person likely to use JYIS, so what will the system do with it?
Exactly what it would do with any other acronym not in its dictionary, leave it as is. INRS after all, as an example.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Very useful to those of us OACA for whom many of these new TAFLAs are a TFM!
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ICHPIBM
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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You're too modest 
BTW
Henry Minute wrote: Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
no matter how I read this or what accent I try I really can't get it.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: no matter how I read this or what accent I try I really can't get it.
They are two separate quotes. If memory serves they are both from NotAlwaysRight.com/[^].
The first was a mis-overheard conversation between two techs by the Girl: (staring) aforementioned. It was actually "I shall need you to give me the ICQ1 number." I just put it in my sig because it is so open to interpretation. I like double-entendres. 
The second was supposedly a 999 call. I put it in because it is so true. (Non party-political, applies to all flavours). IMNSHO 
Footnotes: 1. Here we go again! 
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Thanks, now they make sense
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Yet many (WTF, RTFM, PEBKAC, PHB, etc.) (the F ones especially) are intended to be code among we in the know.
Many others (e.g. AFAIK, IMHO, FYI) are simply laziness and I think people should just spell it out; we have bandwidth to burn don't we?
How about we do it like the smilies? Have a big list on the screen, simply click on the one you want, and the appropriate text gets inserted?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Have a big list on the screen, simply click on the one you want, and the appropriate text gets inserted? Big Grin
That's a nice idea, but I don't think people will use it. AFAIK they like acronyms.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Yes, but it could insert the acronym with the acronym tag <acronym title="It's not rocket science">INRS</acronym>.
Or, select the acronym and click the acronym button, and it gets surrounded by <acronym title=""></acronym> .
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Or, select the acronym and click the acronym button, and it gets surrounded by .
That sounds quite a good idea. If people used it, but I still think the acronym dictionary, for the really common ones, because people are so used to just typing them that they don't really think of them in an acronymly way.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote: they don't really think of them in an acronymly way.
I think acronymly is an adverb, did you not mean acronymous?
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I think acronymly is an adverb, did you not mean acronymous
I don't think so. How could I mean acronymous, when my name is there for all to see?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: IMHO, some have multiple meanings; the author needs to specify his intended meaning.
I think that you may have a point. Take a look at this C# question[^]. I'm not sure what the guy is studying!
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Hi..
What should I do for Getting CP mentor status, I try to provide the best help for all the new authors. I would like to request you to please [have a look] on my posted messages...
Thanks
Md. Marufuzzaman
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Md. Marufuzzaman wrote: What should I do for Getting CP mentor status,
First, You have to join CP Mentor Group[^]
Hope, Sean Can take it forward from there.
Abhijit Jana | Codeproject MVP
Web Site : abhijitjana.net
Don't forget to click "Good Answer" on the post(s) that helped you.
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I m not a member of any groups...But It's show myself as group member with group icon.
Thanks
Md. Marufuzzaman
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Go to your "Profile Settings" and Check for "Account type"
Abhijit Jana | Codeproject MVP
Web Site : abhijitjana.net
Don't forget to click "Good Answer" on the post(s) that helped you.
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when I click on 'link' I get <a href=""></a> but when I click on 'link[^]' I also get <a href=""></a>. Am I missing something (e.g. brain cells)?
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Hi Richard,
This looks like a bug.
We will add it to our bug list and fix it as soon as we can.
Thanks for reporting, and sorry for inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Elina
Life is great!!!
Enjoy every moment of it! 
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No inconvenience, just  .
I notice many other posters using the link[^] version and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. Not being an HTML guru I didn't have the secret.
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The link[^] adds target="_blank" to the anchor so it should read
<a href="" target="_blank"></a>
I find the easiest way is to paste the link directly into the message, then you automatically get both. I've never used the link widgets at all!
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