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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Weisshaupt on March 04, 2014, 06:28:33 PM

Title: Don't Surf the Web, you might pick up a STD
Post by: Weisshaupt on March 04, 2014, 06:28:33 PM

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A recent study found that many Americans are lost when it comes to tech-related terms, with 11% saying that they thought HTML — a language that is used to create websites — was a sexually transmitted disease.
 (http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-1-10-americans-html-std-study-finds-20140304,0,1188415.story?track=rss#axzz2v27CSzre)

Flush.

Title: Re: Don't Surf the Web, you might pick up a STD
Post by: Pandora on March 04, 2014, 07:35:44 PM

Because everything's a damn acronym now.  Nobody can be bothered saying "Major League Baseball"; it's MLB, NFL, url, FBI, CIA, IRS, IRA, blahblahblah.  Going by the commercials, there's one for low testosterone, too -- "low T".

And I'm already annoyed by "frozen precip".  'Smatter, frozen precipitation is too many syllables when snow has turned into "snow showers"?

Argh.  Curmudgeon, that's me.

Title: Re: Don't Surf the Web, you might pick up a STD
Post by: Libertas on March 05, 2014, 06:53:22 AM

Flush?

Sometimes more help is needed.

Title: Re: Don't Surf the Web, you might pick up a STD
Post by: Pandora on March 05, 2014, 01:28:51 PM

This, maybe ....

http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php?topic=10398.0 (http://itsaboutliberty.com/index.php?topic=10398.0)