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Re: CVS commit: src/share/misc



On Thu Dec 02 2010 at 14:18:15 +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 08:31:43AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 07:07:15PM +0000, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
> >  > Add numerous entries from Roland Kammerer.
> > 
> > Some of these are not acronyms: 1337, FSCK, and NOOB are the most
> > obvious, but perhaps also things like W8 for "wait". Should they
> > really be here? This is not supposed to be a general-purpose slang
> > dictionary...
> 
> To me, acronyms (and not acronyms.comp) has always been a collection of
> things one might hear on IRC, nothing more, nothing less. I believe this is
> also the main reason why someone might use wtf(1). But we can of course
> debate what is an acronym.

Sounds like a carefully planned proposal and thorough discussion is
necessary.  We all need to remember the disaster with acronyms.comp.

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