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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">When I see someting like BICBW,<br>
1. I double click it<br>
2. Get into a Google screen (or Duck Duck Go) (5 keystrokes using Launchbar on a Mac) It is unnecessary to copy it; Launchbar can with the selection.<br>
3. Hit return.<br>
4. Three out of the first five links contain the definition in the first line of the blurb. “BICBW stands for But I Could Be Wrong.”</p>
<p dir="auto">Elapsed time: about five seconds.<br>
Time to write this email, about 90 seconds.</p>
<p dir="auto">—Barry</p>
<p dir="auto">On 25 Jan 2021, at 17:31, thompnickson2@gmail.com wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">I assume when people use acronyms it is to communicate their membership in a club that I am not qualified to join, and they want me to be sure I know that. So the medium IS the message. Also, i’s a useful move in an interpersonal power game. It forces the other person to come groveling back for an explication. BICBW</p>
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