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Abbreviation update



HP João S. Lopes wrote:

> Sorry, but what is BTW, IMHO and AFAIK?

Lots of acronyms are used on this mailing list, and every few weeks someone
asks for their meanings. So I have compiled the following list (most kindly
supplied by HP Ken Kinman):

(Many are common to the entire English language or the entire Internet, some
are rarely used.)

AAMOF: as a matter of fact
ABS(U)RD: Anything But a Small (Undiscovered) Running Dinosaur [can be the
ancestor of birds] (see BAND)
AFAIK: as far as I know
AMNH: American Museum of Natural History (lots of analogues exist)
ASAP: as soon as possible
AWOL: away without leave ("gone", of military origin)
BAD(D): Birds Are Dinosaur( Descendant)s
BAND: Birds Are NOT Dinosaurs! (Worn by Storrs "BAND leader" Olson, Alan
Feduccia and some others, collectively called BANDits, at a conference on
avian paleontology.)
BBFN: bye bye for now
BCF: Birds Came First (hypothesis promoted by HP "Dino"George Olshevsky, as
opposed to BADD)
BRB: be right back
BTW: by the way
BYKT: but you knew that
CMIIW: correct me if I'm wrong
DML: Dinosaur Mailing List!!!
ET, EJ, EK: Early Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
FITB: fill in the blank
GMTA: great minds think alike
GSP: part-time list member Gregory Scott Paul, famous author of PDW
HP: Hono(u)red Person (the standard way to refer to list members, see
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2001Jun/msg00713.html)
IAC: in any case
IMHO: in my humble opinion
IMNSHO: in my not so humble opinion
JK: just kidding
LT, LJ, LK: Late Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
LOL: laughing out loud(ly)
NA: North America
OIC: oh I see
OOC: out of curiosity
OTOH: on the other hand
PDW: Gregory S. Paul: Predatory Dinosaurs of the World. A Complete
Illustrated Guide, Simon and Schuster/New York Academy of Sciences 1988
ROTFL(MAO): rolling on the floor laughing (my ass off)
SA: South America
TGIF: Thank God it's Friday
TIC: tongue in cheek
TTFN: ta ta for now
TTNT: till the next time
TTYL: talk to you later
TYVM: thank you very much
WYSBYGI: what you see before you get it
WYSIWYG: what you see is what you get

Is anything still lacking here?