Kevin's Watch

Hahaha, Stumped me, but using industry jargon is cheating.

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Avatar wrote:Hahaha, Stumped me, but using industry jargon is cheating.

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Not industry jargon, all family history related

Well, that's sorta your industry, isn't it? In other words, they're acronyms specific to a certain niche, if you like.

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Second most popular hobby apparently, next to golf, but yes, they are specific to a particular "niche". Just as some acronyms are specific to this forum, which is the point I was trying to make.

get your own thread you two.

Congratulations Hashi

Iolanthe wrote:Second most popular hobby apparently, next to golf, but yes, they are specific to a particular "niche". Just as some acronyms are specific to this forum, which is the point I was trying to make.

Actually, I've never seen many specific to this forum [well...some...KW, GT] but most of them are not.
Still, I remember when "LOL" meant "lot's of luck" and fairly entwined with the military "SOL" [shit outa luck]....I remember when "gay" was [by dictionary categories] basically "rare"...and well on its way to "archaic" and "obsolete." But it had a dual resurgence with new definitions...
Heh...I'm gonna go start an acronyms thread.

Good idea Vraith! Acronyms used on the Watch. Plenty in the Tank!

Specific to the Watch? POV = Point of View (used a lot) for instance.

Nothing Watch-specific about PoV...

I'm Murrin wrote:Nothing Watch-specific about PoV...

Oh? I'd never heard it before I came here!

Iolanthe wrote:

I'm Murrin wrote:Nothing Watch-specific about PoV...

Oh? I'd never heard it before I came here!

obviously you never, ever took an english/writing/lit/crit class in any U.S. university...or even most High Schools. [or you have a memory problem? something about p's o's or v's offends you?]

Oh, and grat's Hashi cuz I don't think I said it yet.

Io..."grat's" is NOT and acronym...it is an abbreviation commonly used in the U.S. [slang, not acceptable in formal writing] for "congratulations"....

If you search for PoV on Google, it automatically includes results for Point of View. It's a standard acronym.

What is Watch specific? THOOLAH. SPOW.

Vraith wrote:

Iolanthe wrote:

I'm Murrin wrote:Nothing Watch-specific about PoV...

Oh? I'd never heard it before I came here!

obviously you never, ever took an english/writing/lit/crit class in any U.S. university...or even most High Schools. [or you have a memory problem? something about p's o's or v's offends you?]

Oh, and grat's Hashi cuz I don't think I said it yet.

Io..."grat's" is NOT and acronym...it is an abbreviation commonly used in the U.S. [slang, not acceptable in formal writing] for "congratulations"....

None of these acronyms were used when I was at school, 50s and 60s, and of course no texting so I haven't learnt the lingo. It's a bit annoying as I can't "join in" if I don't understand what is being said. I had to write down all the Chronicle titles so I know which books are being referred to - LFB, ROTE etc. I've also written down a few of the others that have appeared - and I realise they are not all forum specific. Only one did I immediately know - IMHO - and someone else asked what that meant! If I do write the acronyms down when they appear, and look at them often enough, I will gradually remember them. My problem - I'm not expecting people to stop using them.

I'm Murrin wrote:If you search for PoV on Google, it automatically includes results for Point of View. It's a standard acronym.

What is Watch specific? THOOLAH. SPOW.

Oh dear, what is SPOW? I'll write it down on my list.

I'm Murrin wrote:What is Watch specific? THOOLAH. SPOW.

OPAL!

Menolly wrote:

I'm Murrin wrote:What is Watch specific? THOOLAH. SPOW.

OPAL!

???

I thought it was a derogatory remark Stupid People On 'Watch, or are you saying something about us OPALites?

Oh, wait, sorry, thought you were answering Iolanthe's question, not adding another one to the Watch Specific ones.

THOOLAH -- The Holy Order of Linden Avery Haters

OPAL and SPOW are similar, I think, but one is people who like Linden and the other is for the Linden agnostics. Can't remember which is which offhand. I think OPAL is the fence-sitters.

Oh, and there's LA -- Linden's Army.

Uh uh. SPOW predates all the others. It's Slow Posters Of the Watch.

(Did I congratulate Hashi? Congrats Hashi. )

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SPOW = Slow Posters On the Watch (I think)
OPAL = Opinion Pending About Linden

I learnt a lot of general acronyms when I first joined the Watch, not being particularly acronym savvy before!

EDIT: Av beat me to it!

I stand corrected.