<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">A story Cormac likes to tell is that Winston Churchill once said the two things people would miss in the post-war world would be a classical education and the horse.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t suppose that twitter acronyms — sort of seems like it violates the spirit of twitter, no? If the point were to escape the 140-character trivialization limit, one could just gzip some plain text and send the binary — are exactly equivalent to classical literature, but maybe one refers to more than was written by using them (?)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 25, 2021, at 6:11 PM, Barry MacKichan <<a href="mailto:barry.mackichan@mackichan.com" class="">barry.mackichan@mackichan.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif" class=""><div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">When I see someting like BICBW,<br class="">
1. I double click it<br class="">
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 class="">
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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" class="">Elapsed time: about five seconds.<br class="">
Time to write this email, about 90 seconds.</p><p dir="auto" class="">—Barry</p><p dir="auto" class="">On 25 Jan 2021, at 17:31, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">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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