Re: ABBREVIATIONS / SMO

[Jim Langston <jlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Some are well known common internet TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms), such as
IMO (In My Opinion)
IMHO (In My Honest Opinion)
BTW (By The Way)
AKA (Also Known As)

Those, you are not going to get away from and you should learn them.

I do not know where you saw DF and SF, but if I saw DF as relating
to a file, I would figure it was Database File, but could be wrong.  No
idea what SF is besides Science Fiction.

Regards,

Jim Langston

István Rudas wrote:

> May I ask you all NOT to use too much unexplained abbreviations (beside
> those well-known from the System's Namings given by IBM which are factual
> in OS/400 or RPG), as it is a horrific vaste of time for  non-anglosaxonian
> junglehoppers like me to figure out, what are
>
> - IMO  [in my opinion? iso-molybdene-oxyde? international machines
> organization?]
> - BTW [by the way? best-trimmed-Web?]
> - AKA  [also known as? asian katakana association?] .. .. .. ..
>
> some look very very unprofessional like
>
> - DF  [dumb feature? data file? that should be PF (physical file) or LF
> (logical f) or JF (joined f) or is it a display file? that should be DSPF
> (IBM-abbrev.)....]
>
> - SF  [science fiction? San Francisco? or could that be a Subfile (that
> should be SFL, IBM-Abbrev.)]
> .. .. ..
>
> Sorry for beeing a little bit offensive, but using a world-wide/global/
> network can only be successful if everyone of us is willing to have a
> specific amount of self-discipline to be understood from Malaysia to Chile
> and from Seattle to Capetown... The alternative would create over the times
> a smallminded Community with a selfgenerated newspeak-language which could
> be understood by "special members only" (SMO).
>
> TAL (thanks a lot)
> =:-)
> Istvan (from Austria)

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