Timeline for What does IANAL mean?
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| May 19, 2016 at 18:53 | comment | added | Kilisi | @AaronMcMillin B = bum ... I don't use the 'donkey' word.... | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:14 | comment | added | Aaron McMillin | @Kilisi OK, I know IMHO FWIW IANAL LOL but not LMBO... LMAO OTOH. | |
| May 15, 2016 at 1:05 | comment | added | keshlam | Post of the point being made is "know your audience". Anyone who has gotten this far has seen the search-the-web point. | |
| May 14, 2016 at 23:53 | comment | added | O.M.Y. | @keshlam .. Now you are going to have to explain "grok" for those who have never read Robert Heinlein. 8^D | |
| May 13, 2016 at 20:21 | comment | added | TOOGAM | MC: Your point was drowned out by the comment's unfairness. Websearching for PCEA doesn't pull up the answer. Only Result 5 out of 121 of Google search including right answer showed this. It was a Usenet post which sensibly gave the expansion right by the acronym. When using something so uncommon, hyperlinking to answer is polite and rather common (especially when unfamiliarity is shown). I quickly (re-)learned IANAL and FWIW by searching, but PEYA just doesn't work the same. @Lumberjack: Answers are here now | |
| May 13, 2016 at 19:34 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @TOOGAM two out of three; PEYA is actually "Please Expand Your Acronyms". Lumberjack, I trust I've made my point about (not) using cryptic jargon. | |
| May 13, 2016 at 19:10 | comment | added | TOOGAM | Lumberjack: @MonicaCellio clearly meant, "Pretty Elegant Yet Asinine. In my not so humble opinion it's nicer than making people Search The Friendly Web. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 13:59 | comment | added | Lumberjack | I am totally stumped! | |
| May 11, 2016 at 13:21 | comment | added | Monica Cellio Mod | @Lumberjack PEYA. IMNSHO it's nicer than making people STFW. | |
| May 11, 2016 at 10:50 | vote | accept | Jenny Tengson Mandani | ||
| May 11, 2016 at 3:26 | comment | added | keshlam | For What It's Worth... Slang's quicker when folks grok the jive, but may be impenetrable to others, especially when it isn't in their native language. (Lots of examples can be found in the linguistic areas of SE.) Best practice is to try to avoid it when the idea is actually important, or at the very least to define it the first time it's used in a question/answer set. But that doesn't always happen... When in doubt, it is always legitimate to ask for clarification. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 20:58 | comment | added | Kilisi | I worked out what IMHO is... but too lazy to google FWIW... I actually didn't know what IANAL meant either, we use internet slang here, but it's a different language so different abbreviations except we all know LOL and LMBO and a few others. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 18:21 | comment | added | Lumberjack | FWIW I disagree with your last sentence. IMHO these sorts of "succinct terms" are the jargon of our community. Jargon isn't only about communication. It also plays a valuable role in tying communities together. | |
| May 10, 2016 at 18:08 | history | answered | Monica CellioMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |