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Title: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Btline on October 27, 2009, 18:52:09 TTBOMK :o ??? :'(Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 27, 2009, 19:10:08 GUESS (Hint: hover your mouse over the text...) Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: paul7575 on October 27, 2009, 20:06:27 GUESS (Hint: hover your mouse over the text...) NTICII I didn't know you could do that either... :D Paul Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Btline on October 27, 2009, 20:30:55 NDI
Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 27, 2009, 21:00:28 ... and if you lot think I'm going to add all those possible acronyms to our list, you can think again!
DPYL C. ;) ;D Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: paul7575 on October 27, 2009, 21:46:40 Acronyms? I call them initialisations... ;D
Paul Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 27, 2009, 21:57:10 tpfpmsoto
::) Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 27, 2009, 22:07:31 RITTEICWGBOT*
*TPPMLSNTIHBMFTOT. HPFFTCOWTNT... Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Mookiemoo on October 27, 2009, 22:42:09 Hablas Inglesa?
Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: plymothian on October 27, 2009, 23:21:35 It's only an acronym when the initials spell another word.
Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 28, 2009, 00:24:43 You are quite right, plymothian - and I'm sorry, but I can't even offer a funny answer ... ::)
Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 28, 2009, 00:33:29 You are quite right, plymothian - and I'm sorry, but I can't even offer a funny answer ... ::) LYTC? ;D Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: inspector_blakey on October 28, 2009, 02:20:51 WTF? ;)
Lest that cause any distress, the last word is of course "fiddlesticks". Although I can't for the life of me figure out how to make this mouse-pointer-hovery-pop-up-thingy work. Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Chris from Nailsea on October 28, 2009, 02:30:55 Try
Quote ibwy - just as an example!::) Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: inspector_blakey on October 28, 2009, 03:19:56 TF!
WWTTON? Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 28, 2009, 03:20:45 WTF? ;) Lest that cause any distress, the last word is of course "fiddlesticks". Although I can't for the life of me figure out how to make this mouse-pointer-hovery-pop-up-thingy work. Right Blakey, here goes......You need to put the text you want to initialise into something called HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), so for "What the Fiddlesticks?" to appear when you hover over WTF? you need to type (abbr=What the Fiddlesticks?)WTF?(/abbr) replacing the highlighted() with square brackets []. Had to explain it with () to avoid the text disappearing into another MPHPUT. Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 28, 2009, 03:22:27 Ah, Blakey ISYWIO
Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: inspector_blakey on October 28, 2009, 03:23:25 AOSA!
;) Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 28, 2009, 03:34:44 Well....I'll leave the explanation up for others to learn. The square bracket thingy is also useful to tidy up posts that have links to other webpages. You'll often see posts from Chris from Nailsea (and others) linking to stories elsewhere on the web with HTML that go something like this:
Daily Wail rant(url=www.dailywail.co.uk/news/article=1234567/moaning-about-train-fares-again.html)here(/url). The word here becomes the link. Again, replace () with square brackets. Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 28, 2009, 03:48:30 Acronyms? I call them initialisations... ;D Paul Initialisations? I now call them Initialisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialisms)... ;D Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: TerminalJunkie on October 28, 2009, 14:29:57 Well....I'll leave the explanation up for others to learn. It's all here: http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/coffeeshop/index.php?action=help;page=post#bbcref Overuse can get really annoying, though! Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: JayMac on October 28, 2009, 15:04:23 Always nice to learn a new trick! Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: moonrakerz on October 28, 2009, 19:16:16 It's only an acronym when the initials spell another word. ...........AND when the manufactured word is spoken as such ! The World Health Organisation is called the W - H - 0 , not the same as Dr Who. Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: grahame on October 28, 2009, 19:31:22 Title: Re: Initialisations, and how they can be used in posts Post by: Btline on October 28, 2009, 23:01:19 Oh god TJ, what have you started! :o :o
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