Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12

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Subject: [Leica] more on the GF-1, the finder, and a portrait of an artist
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:49:16 -0800
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On Jan 12, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Jeff Moore <jbm at jbm.org> wrote:
> 
>> 2010-01-11-23:26:30 Mark Rabiner:
>>>> EVF
>>> Electronic viewfinder!
>>> Gosh guys we are so cool - such a select group with our cute little
>>> acronyms.
>> 
>> What is it with you and your apparently willful effort not to
>> understand acronyms whose use has become widespread in our particular
>> field of endeavor?  Something gets used long enough that nobody seems
>> to need to explain what it stands for anymore, people enjoying the
>> luxury of not having to type several long words over and over,
>> then... a few months or even years into the acronym's
>> near-universality, Mark says... Hey!  What's 'is, then?
>> 
>> Just wondering.
>> 
>> Maybe it's acronym dylsexia.
>> 
> Yeah? so why don't we have an acronym for "optical viewfinder" that we all
> understand, instead of  typing it out throughout the thread?  Just asking 
> ..
> .and, what about Plastic Optical viewfinder, and maybe metal Oprtical
> viewfinder, and offset optical viewfinder?
> No sense in getting pissed at us old farts because we don't like acronyms.

Afraid to admit it,  but it just might be,  that even...  fart is an acronym 
:  


Forceful Axplosive Release Toxins....


see...? !


Steve



Replies: Reply from gregj_lorenzo at hotmail.com (Greg Lorenzo) ([Leica] more on the GF-1, the finder, and a portrait of an artist)
In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] more on the GF-1, the finder, and a portrait of an artist)
Message from jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore) ([Leica] more on the GF-1, the finder, and a portrait of an artist)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] more on the GF-1, the finder, and a portrait of an artist)