Hi; Another 2¢, now that I have my email client working again. On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 09:47 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Anne Wilson wrote: > > >On Saturday 19 May 2007, Thomas Cameron wrote: > > >> Mauriat M wrote: [snip] > > >> > > >> TANSTAAFL > > > > > >What the blue blazes does that mean? > > > > > What it stands for is the first letter of each word in "There ain't no such > > thing as a free lunch" > > > I've known the saying for as long as I can remember, though I don't recall > ever seeing the acronym before. > > Actually, I deplore the use of long acronyms that frequently mean little or > nothing to the reader. > > Anne IIWK (If I were king), I would like to see a Linux universal autocorrect program akin to aspell. Acronyms are easy to type; hard to read. I would like a facility to type in acronyms that automatically got replaced with the full phrase and could translate acronyms in any email or file into their full language. Certainly beyond me; but obviously not beyond the creative abilities of some Linux programmer types. Dictionaries of acronyms already exist, favourite acronyms could be added. -- Regards Bill
