Abbreviation update (was Re: FUCHSIA)

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aspidel" <aspidel@wanadoo.be>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:07 PM


> By FUCHSIA, do you mean it's like some modern birds on the lakes (swans
> IIRC), which run on the water, flap their wings and start to fly, and
that's
> how flight may have evolved?

No, FUCHSIA is the idea that bird flight evolved underwater.

Abbreviations that I've seen in use onlist:

ABS(U)RD: Anything But a Small (Undiscovered) Running Dinosaur [can be the
ancestor of birds] (see BAND)
AFAICT: as far as I can tell
AFAIK: as far as I know
AFAIR: as far as I recall
ASAP: as soon as possible
AWOL: away/absent 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.)
BCF: Birds Came First (hypothesis promoted by HP "Dino"George Olshevsky, as
opposed to BADD)
BTW: by the way
CMIIW: correct me if I'm wrong
DA: Gregory S. Paul: Dinosaurs of the Air. The Evolution and Loss of Flight
in Dinosaurs and Birds, Johns Hopkins University 2002
DML: Dinosaur Mailing List!!!
ETr, EJ, EK: Early Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
FUCHSIA: Flight Underwater Continued, However Strange, In Air. Kindly
invented by HP Mike Taylor for my slight modification of the hypothesis
proposed in Klaus Ebel: On the origin of flight in *Archaeopteryx* and in
pterosaurs, Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 202
(3), 269 -- 285 (Dezember 1996)
FYI: for your information
GSP: part-time list member Gregory Scott Paul, famous author of PDW and DA
HP: Hono(u)red Person (the standard way to refer to list members, see
www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/2001Jun/msg00713.html)
IIRC: if I recall correctly
IMHO: in my humble opinion
IMNSHO: in my not so humble opinion
IMO: in memorial of
JP: Journal of Paleontology
JVP: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
LTr, LJ, LK: Late Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous
LOL: laughing out loud(ly)
MTr, MJ: Middle Triassic, Jurassic
NA: North America
N. Jb. Geol. Paläont.: Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie (a
German journal, most papers in English)
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
SVP: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (also used to refer to the annual
meeting, e.g. SVP '01)
TGIF: Thank God it's Friday
TMK: to my knowledge. Used almost only by HP TMK = T. Michael Keesey.
TTFN: ta ta for now
TTYL: talk to you later
W4MA: Wait for Mickey's analysis. HP Mickey Mortimer is compiling a huge
cladistic analysis of coelurosaur relationships. In analogy to
W4tP: Wait for the paper -- the oft-repeated advice by HP Thomas R. Holtz,
Jr., to wait until a new discovery is properly described instead of wildly
speculating from the first rumor on.

And there's www.acronymfinder.com.