Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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