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Q&A Using uncommon abbreviations

Stanislaw Lem had a very nice method for that. Read his "Observation on the Spot" for it, although I'm not sure if translation captures the spirit. In essence, the acronyms compose into meaningful...

posted 12y ago by SF.‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by user avatar SF.‭ · 2019-12-08T01:15:29Z (about 5 years ago)
Stanislaw Lem had a very nice method for that. Read his "Observation on the Spot" for it, although I'm not sure if translation captures the spirit.

In essence, the acronyms compose into meaningful, half-meaningful, humorous, horribly misspelled, rudely suggestive and otherwise very memorable words.

> So when we're dealing with SuperChronistic Mechanics (SuC-Me) we have to take a wholly different approach than before in the case of Temporally InterTransmissive Area Oligarchs (TIT/AreOli). Those in favour of SuC-Me in fact frequently disagree with the conclusions reached by applying TIT mechanisms to the same data set...

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-12-19T10:32:27Z (about 12 years ago)
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