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Re: ????
At 12:02 PM 5/29/97 PDT, David Nichols wrote:
>???? It seems we have a discrepancy!! Does someone have a Glossary:)
>
The Jargon File, at http://murrow.journalism.wisc.edu/jargon/ says:
IMHO // /abbrev./
[from SF fandom via Usenet; abbreviation for `In My Humble Opinion'] "IMHO,
mixed-case C names should be avoided, as mistyping something in the wrong case
can cause hard-to-detect errors -- and they look too Pascalish anyhow." Also
seen in variant forms such as IMNSHO (In My Not-So-Humble Opinion) and
IMAO (In My Arrogant Opinion).
I say:
In My Hot Oldsmobile, at least until I find a deal on a Scirocco.
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