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 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. > > -J > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > 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. -- Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/ Natchitoches, Louisiana (+31.754164,-093.099080) USA