From paolo Fri Dec 2 18:06:59 1994 Subject: OTOH, IMHO etc - comp.lang.oberon #3351 thought this was something you might enjoy... you probably have a collection of these somewhere, which you update once a month... In article , jstout@cix.compulink.co.uk (John Stout) writes: > In-Reply-To: <31363.christian.hoffmann@wsl.ch> > 9TOO10 9 Times Out Of 10 > AA Alcholics Anonymous/Automobile Association/Always Allowed > AAA Any Advice Appreciated > ADGR All Donations Gratefully Received > AFAIAA As Far As I Am Aware > AFAICR As Far As I Can Recall > AFAICS As Far As I Can See > AFAICT As Far As I Can Tell > AFAIK As Far As I Know > AFAIR As Far As I Recall > AFAIUI As Far As I Understand It > AGAN As Good As New > AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics > AIUI As I Understand It > AMEOL 'A Most Excellent Off Line' reader > ANSI American National Standards Institute > API Application Programming Interface > APU Auxiliary Power Unit > ASAP As Soon As Possible > ATM At The Moment/Adobe Type Manager/Automated Teller Machine etc. > AU Astronomical Unit > AVHBI A Very Happy Bunny Indeed! > AWOL Absent WithOut Leave > BB Bum Bandit > BBC British Broadcasting Corporation > BBDC Big Boys Don't Cry > BCNU Be Seeing You > BEM Bug-Eyed Monster > BFN Bye For Now > BHOW Bangs Head On Wall > BM Bloody Marvelous > BMP BitMaP file > BMW Bavarian Motor Works > BMWM Big Mean Windows Machine > BSF But Seriously, Folks > BT British Telecom > BTDT Been There Done That > BTDTGTTS Been There Done That Got The T Shirt > BTSOOM Beats The Stuffing Out Of Me > BTW By The Way > CAD Computer Aided Design/Ctrl-Alt-Delete > CAMRA CAMpaign for Real Ale > CaRP CAmpaign for Real Pedantry > CCC Clever Chaps Club > CCDL Clean Current Driving License > CD-ROM Compact Disk Read-Only Memory > CFC ChloroFluoroCarbon > CIX Compulink Information eXchange > CLI Command Line Interface > CNO Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen > CO Company/Care Off > CPU Central Processing Unit > CUA Common User Access/Commonly Used Acronym > CUL See You Later > DCX Delta Clipper eXperimental > DDE Dynamic Data Exchange > DGUTDJ Don't Give Up The Day Job > DLL Dynamic Link Library > DOD Department Of Defense > DOE Department Of Energy > DOT Department Of Transportation > DQM Don't Quote Me > DQMOT Don't Quote Me On That/This > DS9 Deep Space Nine > DWIM Do What I Mean > EMS Expanded Memory System > ESA European Space Agency > ET Extra Terrestrial > FAQ Frequently Asked Question > FAST Federation Against Software Theft > FEIYD ForEver In Your Debt > FITMR Fixed In The Maintenance Release (honest, guv...) > FITNR Fixed In The Next Release > FM Font Monster/Frequency Modulation/File Manager etc. etc. > FOAF Friend Of A Friend > FOC Free Of Charge > FOTP Fresh Off The Press > FOTS For Old Times Sake > FRA 'File Read All' > FTP File Transfer Protocol > FTR For The Record > FUD Fear, Uncertainty And Doubt > FWIR From What I Recall > FWIW For What It's Worth > FX Effects (Stage directions!) > FY Faithfully Yours > FYI For Your Information > GB Great Britain > GBH Grevious Bodily Harm > GBP Great British Pounds (sterling) > GEO Geosynchronous Earth Orbit > GIF Graphics Information File (see gif conf) > GL Good Lad! > GMT Greenwich Mean Time (also called UT) > GPF General Protection Fault > GR&D Grinning, Running & Ducking > GTBOS Glad To Be Of Service > GUI Graphical User interface > HEY HElp Yourself > HG Mercury > Hg Mercury > HI Her Indoors > HOLLAND Hope Our Love Lasts And Never Dies > HOTOL HOrizontal TakeOff and Landing > HTH Hope This Helps > HWISTKT How Was I Supposed To Know That? > HWSTWH He Would Say That, Wouldn't He > IAE In Any Event > IAH In All Honesty > IANAL I Am Not A Lawyer > IBM Its Being Mended/Its Better Manually > ICBM InterContinental Ballistic Missile > ICYDK In Case You Didn't Know > ID Identity > IDLM I Don't Like Mondays > IIABDFI If It Aint Broken, Dont Fix It > IIDKB If I Didn't Know Better > IIR If I Recall/Remember > IIRC If I Recall/Remember Correctly > IIUC If I Understand Correctly > IIWY If I Were You > IKWYM I Know What You Mean > IMCO In My Considered Opinion > IME In My Estimation/Experience > IMHA In My Humble Analysis > IMHE In My Humble Estimation/Experience > IMHO In My Humble Opinion/In My Honest Opinion > IMNSHO In My Not So Humble Opinion > IMO In My Opinion > IMVHO In My Very Humble Opinion > IOM Isle Of Man > IOTTMCO Its Obvious To The Most Casual Observer > IOW In Other Words/Isle Of Wight > IR InfraRed > IRMC I Rest My Case > ISC I Stand Corrected > ISTM It Seems To Me > ISTR I Seem To Recall/Remember > ISWYM I See What You Mean > IT Information Technology/Good Book by Stephen King > IWFM It Works For Me > IWHAGT I Would Hazard A Guess That > IWW I Wonder Why > IYDMMA If You Don't Mind Me Asking > IYKWIM If You Know What I Mean > IYSWIM If You See What I Mean > JAM Just A Minute... > JAT Just A Tick... > JFTR Just For The Record > JPG Jaypeg (a graphics file format - see gif conf) > JTFM Just The Facts, Ma'am/Man > LAN Local Area Network > LEO Low Earth Orbit > LGM Little Green Men > LOL Lots Of Luck/Laughing Out Loud > MDBTYD My Dad's Bigger Than Your Dad > MFC Microsoft Foundation Classes > MHOTY My Hats Off To You > MMBTY My Mum's Bigger Than You > MMS My Mother Said.. > MRDA Mandy Rice Davies Applies ("Well He Would, Wouln't He?) > MRLP Monster Raving Looney Party > MROK Moderators Rule OK > MSVC Microsoft Visual C > MTIA Many Thanks In Anticipation > NAFAIAC Not As Far As I Am Concerned > NAFAIC Not As Far As I'm Concerned > NALOPKT Not A Lot Of People Know That > NDA Non Disclosure Agreement > NIAL Not In Acronyms List > NIMBY Not In My Back Yard > NIOED Not In the Oxford English Dictionary > NRN No Reply Necessary > NSA National Security Agency > NT National Trust/New TechnologY/National Theatre > NTFS Windows NT Filing System > NTOOT Nine Times Out Of Ten > ODBC Open DataBase Connectivity > OIC Oh I See > OK OK > OLE Object Linking and Embedding > OLR Off Line Reader > OMRLP Official Monster Raving Looney Party > OMS Over My Shoulder > OOTB Out Of The Box (ie Brand New) > OOTT One Of Those Things > OTOH On The Other Hand > OTT Over The Top > OTTH On The Third Hand > PC Personal Computer/Price Check > PCMCIA People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms > PI Private Investigator > PMFJI Pardon Me For Jumping In > PMJI Pardon Me Jumping In > POV Point Of View > PQMF Please Quote Me For > RAM Random Access Memory > RAUBM Replies As Usual By Mail > RGB Red-Green-Blue > ROFL Rolls On Floor Laughing > ROFLWTSDMF Rolls On Floor Laughing With Tears Streaming Down My Face > ROM Read Only Memory > ROTFL Rolling On The Floor Laughing > ROUS Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don't believe they exist) > RSC Royal Shakespere Company > RSF Right Said Fred...! > RSN Really Soon Now > RTROTT Read The Rest Of The Thread > RTTEOTT Read To The End Of The Thread > SDK Software Development Kit > SETI Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence > SFAICT So Far As I Can Tell > SFSG So Far So Good > SID So I Do > SIMM Single Inline Memeory Module/Axell@cix > SITD Still In The Dark > SO Significant Other > SOBOH Slap On Back Of Head > SOTA State Of The Art > SQL Structured Query Language > SSWL Splits Sides With Laughter > ST Star Trek > STB Simply The Best > SWALK Sealed With A Loving Kiss > SWSTWS She Would Say That Wouldnt She > SWYM See What You Mean > TAIISAT Take An Interest In Sex And Travel > TANJ There Aint No Justice > TANSTAAFL There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch > TBW That Blasted Woman > TDA Trades Descriptions Act > TIA Thanks In Anticipation > TIAPSA This Is A Public Service Announcement > TIC Tongue In Cheek > TLA Three Letter Abbreviation/Acronym > TMRTB That Man Reads The Beano > TNG The Next Generation > TOS The Original Series > TPTB The Powers That Be > TTBOMK To the Best of My Knowledge > TTFN Ta Ta For Now > TTFS Try This For Size > TTYL Talk To You Later > TVM Ta Very Much > TVMIA Ta Very Much In Advance > TYVM Thank You Very Much > UA Unusual Abbreviation > UFO Unidentified Flying Object > UK United Kingdom > UKP United Kingdom Pounds (sterling) > UKS United Kingdom Sterling > USAF United States Air Force > UT Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time) > UTC Coordinated Universal Time (a.k.a. UT) > UTCCH Until The Cows Come Home > UV UltraViolet > VB Visual Basic > VB3 Visual Basic 3 > VC Visual C++ > VC++ Visual C++ > VGI Very Good Idea > VTOL Vertical Take-Off and Landing > W4W Word For Windows > WAGI What A Good Idea > WAIDW What Am I Doing Wrong > WHYD What Have You Done > WIHIH What in Hell is Happening > WIWAB When I Was A Boy > WIWAL When I Were A Lad > WMF Windows MetaFile > WOGS Working On Government Service > WRT With Respect To > WTBC Wont That Be Confusing > WW WigWam (Wot that?, - ed.) > WWFFC Why Wait For Father Christmas > WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get > XMS eXtended Memory System > YFST Yawns For Some Time > YHBM You Have BinMail > YHM You Have Mail > YKWIM You Know What I Mean > YOGWYPF You Only Get What You Pay For > YSBIB You Should Be In Bed > YSHBM You Should Have BinMail > YSHM You Should Have Mail > > The above is the contents of my ACRONYMS file, slightly edited for > politeness > and cultural relevance, but you get the idea. > John Stout >