[FRIAM] Acronyms

[Barry MacKichan]

When I see someting like BICBW,
1. I double click it
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.
3. Hit return.
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.”

Elapsed time: about five seconds.
Time to write this email, about 90 seconds.

—Barry

On 25 Jan 2021, at 17:31, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:

> 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
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