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To: JesseJane

I like this: "Take a stand...not a mountain that can't be climbed, but it's a hill worth dying on." Poetry/Lyrics.

I usually figure out typos and misspellings - except my own. But, I am dumb big-time on abbreviations and acronyms. Er, what is "WOT"?

Your great, JesseJane. No need for apologies. At least you have a spelling tower - I have to wing it.

P.S. For twenty years I thought the phonetic "EyeBeEm" (IBM) was the name! When I finally realised it stood for International Business Machines, I stayed with using the abbreviation "EyeBeEm".

Oh, only a few minutes later: I got it! WOT = War on Terrorism! Yes? Someone wrote SOS - took me a while to figure out Sec of State. What really threw me for days was POTUS. I'm better at deciphering typos.


110 posted on 05/18/2005 8:55:02 PM PDT by purpleland (The price of freedom is vigilance.)
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To: purpleland

Thank you PL!!

I appreciate the grace (and kind words) given for the typo's.. but curse my fingers for the acronyms.. I hate them but use them for sped...hehehe I mean speed. :)

To be honest, I'm on the hunt for the meaning of one F/R acronym right now, but nooooooobody iz talkingk! I vill find ze meaningk... I svear!

LOL re: EyebeEm!! What a cute story.. ! Reminds me of a boss I had years and years ago and a debate we had about making Xerox copies when our copy machine was not Xerox.

Just a habit of language when technology did not move so quickly, and when it did, it was fine, because we all knew what they really meant. And didn't find the need to make a snide and cutting comment. In those days, doing such a thing, exposed the finks lack of class and humility. It would be nice to return to the days of common courtesy, and respect.


112 posted on 05/18/2005 9:41:38 PM PDT by JesseJane (Close the Borders. No Amnesty.)
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