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Re: Lugnet acronyms
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lugnet.technic
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Wed, 16 May 2001 02:44:10 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.technic, Gaurav Thakur writes:
> > This is probably a really stupid question, since everyone here seems to know
> > what these mean, but could someone tell me what "MOC" and "AFOL" stand for?
> > Thanks...
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> Check here...
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> http://www.lugnet.com/~88/acronym_faq/
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> which is maintained thanks to Shiri Dori's efforts, although there are many
> contributors.
Yeah, I kinda wish I had kept a list of all the people who sent me
acronyms... I guess it's kinda too late now :-( (I get lots of suggestion
emails and delete them right after I add them).
> Unfortunately you sort of have to know to look for it. It's
> not listed on the homepage.
Yeah, although it is listed on the FAQ page. But how many people actually
venture *there*? Heh.
> HTH (YCLIU (1) ) :-)
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> 1 - that one's not in there but it's sort of a general usenet acronym...
> whenever you see an acronym you suspect might be generic rather than Lego(r)
> specific, try here:
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
> ... but it's not in there either!
> ANYWAY, it means You Could Look It Up. And in this case, you COULD look up
> YCLIU, but you wouldn't find it. :-)
Weeeeeellll... you'll find it now! ;-)
http://www.lugnet.com/~88/acronym_faq/Y
-Shiri
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