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I printed out some threads to show to a friend. She's no slouch in the mental department but she has never touched a computer or gone on the net. She had trouble reading the article because of all the weird terminology. What weird terms? I looked at the articles again and read the posts and realized it was a bunch of arcane mumbo jumbo. Maybe this has been done before but I figure it can stand to be done again. Consider the following hypothetical Y2k forum sentence.

"My DWGI ex will hopefully GI once TSHTF. He thinks FOF will work but when FEMA, Health and DOD go Infomagic, the sheeple stampede, and the banks run out of paper it will be harder to be a polly."

Say Wha?

We are ALL of us  Preparers, doomers, trolls, pollys, shills, organizers, writers, geeks, lurkers, educators, sysops  we are all speaking an arcane language!!! Then we are surprised when no one knows what the heck we are talking about!!!!

Here is a glossary of terms. If you think a term needs to be altered or expanded just say so and use your manners please. Post here or e-mail me. Flaming is not required to get my attention and will in fact be ignored. I will compile all add-ons and corrections every couple of weeks or more. The more of us that contribute to this glossary the more helpful it will be.

Y2k Forum Glossary

BITR see Bump In The Road

Bump In The Road

Also BITR

1. A term made famous by the Senate Report findings on Y2k which was released in late Feb. of '99. In the opening summary Y2k is described as "A bump in the road." The actual meaning of this term is vague and has no specific technical or organizational use. In general it is thought of as meaning a minor disturbance in ones' life. A brief jolt and then smooth sailing again.

Compliant

1. A completely compliant system which has been fully remediated and tested and is expecting no Y2k glitches.

2. A partially compliant system which might work as long as all its vendors are compliant and compatible.

3. A vague term used to describe the management declared exaltations of success of self audited and self reported remediation

DOD  Department of Defense

DWGI  Don't wanna get it.

1. Somebody with all the information at their disposal and who can understand and discuss the possible effects but who still lives as though Y2k is not happening at all.

2. Someone who doesn't want to hear anything at all about Y2k in the fear that they will Get It.

See: Get It, GI

Doomer

1. Someone who has assessed the risks and expects Y2k to cause serious disruptions in most peoples lives.

FEMA  Federal Emergency Management something??? Can anyone help me out here?

Fix On Failure

1. Fixing a system after it fails instead of trying to prevent it from failing in the first place.

Get It  Get It or Gets It

Also - GI

1. Someone who "gets" Y2k . Someone who understands what Y2k is and why it might affect your life even if you don't use a PC at work.

2. Someone who is making serious life decisions based on their knowledge of Y2k.

Happy Face

1. Indicates a report or term designed to make scary statistics or events seem less frightening or consequential. Happy Talk, Happy Face Report

Infomagic

Can someone help me with this one?

IT  Information Technology

Polly

1. Someone who has assessed the risks and expects Y2k not to cause serious disruptions in most peoples lives.

Roll Over

1. That moment between 12/31/99 and 01/01/00 when all the computers will roll over into Y2k.

Sheeple

1. Those who choose to follow blindly what others tell them without thinking for themselves.

Troll

Didn't someone post a great thread defining this word already?

TSHTF  The Shit Hits The Fan (as in when.)

1. Whenever everything really starts to feel the effects of Y2k

2. 1/1/2000

TEOTWAWKI  The End Of The World As We Know It

1. A term used to describe the collapse of civilization as know it. Serious disruptions in goods and services, worldwide power outages, collapse of food production and distribution, cessation of most government services etc. It is sometimes confused with TEOTW  The End Of The World, End Times or Armageddon. It is not meant to imply the end of human life on earth it is instead meant to describe a return to pre-industrial technology without pre-industrial skills, tools, or livestock.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 21, 1999

Answers

ROTFLMAO = rolling on the floor laughing my a** off. Infomagic = the Doomer of Doomers, the end of civilization, the return of the dark ages. Polly, BTW (by the way), is short for "pollyanna."

Just Remember: Y2K wouldn't be happening at all if it weren't for abbreviation.

-- can you (make@this.shorter), July 21, 1999.

If you want to check up on infomagic check out Cory's old WRP100, 103, & 107 At:

http://www.kiyoinc.com/prewrp10.html

-- helium (heliumavid@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

What a great thread! Since I have been on this forum since the beginning and can read all of the above, I too forget that others don't understand at all.

TEOTW - "The end of the world" is vastly different from TEOTWAWKI

-- Beckie (sunshine_horses@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

A couple of others I've seen here.

IMHO = In my humble opion

BTW = By the Way

GN = Gary North

ROTFLMAO = Rolling on the floor laughing my @ss off.

Troll = Obnoxious creatures that have little to contribute based on factual evidence. If fed, they spawn like wildfire. Unable of maintaining an intelligent conversation without swearing.

-- trafficjam (judgementday@ahead.soon), July 21, 1999.

trafficjam,

Webster's Dictionary:

Troll, v. sing in a full, hearty voice, fish with a moving lure; to roll, turn. n. mythical cave dweller.

See there, I can give you an intelligent argument to your definition of a troll and I don't even have to swear. Don't you feel silly now? You got to let go of those feelings of worthlessness and focus your anger away from "trolls" and back to where it should be, on your shattered ego. Misplaced aggression can lead to stress which leads to heart attacks you know. Take a breath, count to ten, there you go, isn't that better?

-- "troll" (doomers@suck.com), July 21, 1999.

Sorta related, IMHO.

;-D

Diane

Posted at 10:22 a.m. PDT Wednesday, July 14, 1999

Technology requires new chapter in etiquette rule books

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PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Emily Post would not be LOL (online shorthand for ``laughing out loud'').

High-tech tools such as video conferencing, voice messaging, cellular phones and electronic mail -- invented decades after the death of the doyenne of etiquette -- are making some business communications downright unseemly to the manners-minded.

``Because we are losing control over a deluge of information, it is wreaking havoc in the corporate world,'' said Jaqueline Whitmore, founder of The Protocol School of Palm Beach and former etiquette instructor at The Breakers, a five-star resort in Palm Beach.

As Corporate America tries to regain its professional decorum, the etiquette industry is beginning to see an upswing in business.

A teacher of etiquette for 40 years, Dorothea Johnson of The Protocol School of Washington said she's recently seen a surge in interest from the business community, which she attributed to the emergence of new ways to communicate.

``Any time there is a form of communication, you're going to get people who are going to abuse it, either by simply not knowing or not caring,'' she said. ``That's why we believe etiquette is so hot right now.''

Convenience is supplanting courtesy, agreed Ms. Whitmore, who now includes a session on techno-etiquette in her business seminars -- along with the finer points of table manners, working a room and handshaking.

The fundamental rules of techno-etiquette, while new and developing along with the technology itself, are based on the same principles Post used when she first spelled out good manners: Common sense and courtesy.

Those considerations can be easily forgotten, Ms. Whitmore said, when a business meeting is taking place across miles instead of across the hall.

When conducting a video conference, ``act as if you're in the same room,'' Ms. Whitmore said. ``Keep body movements to a minimum.''

And if the meeting is over a speaker phone, be certain everyone has been introduced. And by all means, ask permission before placing someone on the speaker, she said.

Answering machines, voice mail and electronic mail messages are rife with opportunities for impropriety, Ms. Whitmore said.

For example: Outgoing messages should be short, businesslike and recorded in the person's own voice. They should not have religious or other nonbusiness-related messages that could potentially offend or put off a client. And there's really no need to tell callers how to leave a message, Ms. Whitmore said.

``And avoid cliches like `Have a nice day','' Ms. Whitmore said. ``Nobody really cares.''

Perhaps the greatest need for refinement is in the realm of electronic mail. Phrases made popular in Internet chat rooms, such as LOL, ``laughing out loud,'' or TTYL, ``talk to you later,'' have no place in business correspondence, Ms. Whitmore said.

E-mail can make an important message seem informal. Or sarcasm and humor can be easily misunderstood. ``There's no tone of voice, no body language,'' she said.

And NEVER WRITE AN E-MAIL MESSAGE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

``It is the equivalent of shouting,'' Ms. Whitmore explained.

While the 14 students who paid $225 for her recent one-day class said learning about proper use of technology isn't as fun as practicing how to properly fork rice, they agreed there is a need to engender civility in modern society.

Sandra Thibaudeau, found the use of cellular phones by people on the street especially galling.

``They're talking too loud and banging into everyone,'' she said with disgust.

``These things wouldn't have happened before, but the world has changed,'' said her business partner, Lynda Berish of Montreal.

Some examples of Web jargon that should be kept out of any business- related electronic mail messages, according to Jaqueline Whitmore, of The Protocol School of Palm Beach, Fla.:

TTYL: Talk to you later

FWIW: For what it's worth

BCNU: I'll be seeing you

ROTFL: Rolling on the floor laughing

TNSTAAFL: There's no such thing as a free lunch

IMHO: In my humble opinion

GG: Got to go

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

Don't forget ClubFed (for federal warming centers) and VaporDate (for promised compliancy dates which everyone knows in advance will be ignored.) Also, recently coined, Fantasy Document = any document which claims readiness.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), July 21, 1999.

How about:

TTFN (ta ta for now)

YMMV (Your mileage may vary, meaning you may come up with a different answer)

TIA (thanks in advance)

BFN (bye for now)

-- newbiebutnodummy (Linda@home.com), July 21, 1999.

FEMA -- Federal Emergency Management Agency

Infomagic -- 1) the handle of a programmer who has hypothesized that the carrying capacity of the planet will be so low after the rollover that a very large part of the population will die out. 2) the situation in which this occurs, e.g., to go infomagic means that the results are expected to cause this very low carrying capacity and subsequent dieoff.

-- de (delewis@inetone./net), July 21, 1999.

you should mention that the term polly comes from "pollyanna"

-- biker (y2kbiker@worldnet.att.net), July 22, 1999.

HTH......Hope this helps

IIRC.....If I recall correctly

OT.......Off topic

HTH = )

-- Wilferd (WilferdW@aol.com), July 22, 1999.