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Conference thebay::joyoflex

Title:	The Joy of Lex
Notice:	A Notes File even your grammar could love
Moderator:	THEBAY::SYSTEM

Created:	Fri Feb 28 1986
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1192
Total number of notes:	42769

816.0. "new conf: ACRONYM" by GBMMKT::MCMAHON (Carolyn McMahon) Thu Aug 09 1990 20:31

    There's a new notes conference (GBMMKT::ACRONYM) designed to share info
    about frequently and commonly used digital acronyms, abbreviations and
    "diginyms."  
    
    That conference is intended as a reference tool for finding out what
    these things mean - not a discussion tool on the topics of acronyms or
    abbreviations or for discussion about any particular one.  As a
    reference tool, we hope it will cut down on overhead time spent trying
    to find out what they mean when we run across them in our daily work.
    
    If you think you can help out, join in!  You may load the conf into
    your notebook using your "select" or KP7 key.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
816.1		TKOV51::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Fri Aug 10 1990 04:34`	1
	You mean the new notes conference isn't G4T::A5M?
816.2		WELWIT::MANNION	By his own hand shall ye know him!	`Fri Aug 10 1990 12:14`	20
	A colleague of mine in Sales, infamous here for his lack of command of English, was presenting to a group of customers. He had a slide which showed the location of various DCCs, and wanted to explain what DCC meant. Now, DCC is an abbreviation, not an acronym - I would avoid trying to make into an acronym by pronouncing it Dick - but this fellow didn't understand what an acronym is anyway, so he tried to say "Our industry is famous for its acronyms." Trouble was, he couldn't think of the word 'acronym', so he went for 'mnemonic' instead. Double trouble was he couldn't think of that either, and ended up saying "Our industry is famous for its pneumonics." I missed the nect several minutes of is presentation while I tried to work out the sequence of mistakes above, and then to decide what the hell a pneumonic really is. The best I've got is the cries of glee made by little kids as they run away from your car having let the tyres down. Phillip
816.3		VALKYR::RUST		`Fri Aug 10 1990 17:06`	4
	Re "pneumonic" - how about the whoosh of air that erupts when you sit down on a vinyl-upholstered chair? -b
816.4		STAR::CANTOR	Honorary Consultant on Random Events	`Sat Aug 11 1990 05:37`	5
	Re .2 What the hell is a nect? Dave C.
816.5	not worth going to hell for	TLE::RANDALL	living on another planet	`Mon Aug 13 1990 15:01`	3
	In context, it appears to be a typo for "next." --bonnie
816.6	What's a worra?	WELWIT::MANNION	By his own hand shall ye know him!	`Wed Aug 15 1990 17:29`	7
	Been to hell and quite liked it so... nect - next entry, content trivial. It's an acronym that could be appropriate in certain contexts. No worra meen? Phillip
816.7		TKOV51::DIAMOND	This note is illegal tender.	`Fri Aug 17 1990 03:44`	2
	Nect (nekt), n., if their lawyers know more parts of speech than ours do: a product of Next, Inc., in the singular.