<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\u2019t suppose that twitter acronyms \u2014 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 \u2014 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="">
3. Hit return.<br class="">
4. Three out of the first five links contain the definition in the first line of the blurb. \u201cBICBW stands for But I Could Be Wrong.\u201d</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="">\u2014Barry</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\u2019s 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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