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Posted on 11/03/2025 11:02:01 AM PST by ganeemead
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Gd damn it. I hate when people use fake words like wrt. What the Hell is that? You tell me that you are smart by talking about Ganymede but then stick a wrt in the first sentence. I hate it so bad that I won’t read the article and also I won’t read your book even if it is free.
So basically Worlds in Collision plus Close Encounters?
since you are the expert, it would be nice if you explain the hypotheses and one or two sentences since the article doesn’t really introduce that.
Are you Theodore holden?
Not a fake word
With respect to
Been in use for decades
Jeez. If you get this exercised over mere abbreviations, I wonder what happens when you see actual typos...
Time for the Tin Foil Hats!!!!!
"WRT" doesn't bother me, likewise "FYI", "IMO", "YMMV" and a host of others. They're legit abbreviations.
The ones that get to me are "U" instead of "you", "4" instead of "for", "2" instead of "to", and the like. Those are beyond the pale, IMO, because they don't represent the thing they're abbreviating. They're just plain sloppy usage, trying to be hip and cool, and sounding like an idiot.
Lazy Typists
I hate it when people have to use expletives to vent their anger on public forums.
I agree. We’ve adapted language to the digital world better in some instances than others.
(Didn’t ‘U’ and ‘4’, etc., came into use largely through cellphone texting? I never used those terms, but until I got a larger phone, I hated texting and would type as succinctly as I could - and I have small hands and slender fingers...)
This abbreviation predates the internet, it has been common in business correspondence since the 1950s. First mention in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1956.
One would imagine that if this was so well thought out that it would appear on Amazon. But no, its just a pdf. Which can only be read on a computer or cell phone screen, unless one prints the entire thing, staples it all together and packs around a cumbersome bunch of floppy paper.
If you are Theodore A. Holden, the purported author, please expend a little effort and get it on Amazon as a readable book.
Your screen name is ganeemead. The title of this video is “Ganymede Hypothesis Update”. Are you the man in the video?
‘The Ganymede Hypothesis Paperback Edition II’ by Holden is on Amazon...
Lettuce run a test:
Jeez. If you get this exercised over mere abbreviations, I wonder what happens when you see actual tiepos...
SMS texting and Twitter's original 160-character limit certainly were the "killer apps" for those abbreviations, starting just before 2000 and continuing.
But they existed in popular music (among other places) before that. Prince popularized it in his mid-1980's song titles "I Would Die 4 U" and "Live 2 Love"; hip-hop/rap picked it up and ran with it in the 90's and beyond.
I’ve seen it since Usenet days, before the general public had the WWW; but not in business.
“Maybe, but not widely. I am well read, and I have not seen it.”
Not maybe. I guess your readings are not technical.
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