Re: OT [-empyre-] translation

[Deanne_cg2 <deanne@crankygirl.com>]

Hi Barrie
Thanks for these links -- I'll check these out. 
re: emoticons :  yeah, I keep forgetting that word, sort of pesky.
barrie wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
> ::: life is beautiful :::
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