[-empyre-] translation

[barrie <adhocgraphics@bigpond.com>]

Hi Deanne,

You said:

> 'The web-project I am working on right now deals with translation, and I
> have been previously consumed by thinking about archives.'

and

> 'Got me thinking about those little abbreviations thingamabobs [like :) and
> BTW etc] and wondering how they could be improved upon.'


Emoticons I think they are called. Some sites/forums feature them as symbols
that you can mark your posts with, Flaskit is one I think.

Here are a couple of sites you might find interesting/useful with regard to
the above:

This is a kind of reference site, archive, online notebook, lots of
interesting leads, books etc:

http://www.santafe.edu/%7Eshalizi/notebooks.html

And this is the jargon file or the new hackers dictionary, all that esoteric
acronym stuff etc, great reference:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/

Cheers, Barrie

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