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Re: What's in a name? (I*LTC)
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Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:37:13 GMT
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In lugnet.trains.org, "Mike Walsh" <mike_walsh@mindspring.com> writes:
> > If no one has any strenuous objections, I suggest that IOLTC it is.
I don't have any objections, but since I just heard about this in the past
few days, it seems rather quick to pick a name within just a few days,
especially if it ends up getting written in stone before everyone has had a
chance to narrow things down to a few names and let them sink in for a
while.
> > Unless I hear otherwise, that's what I'm going to start calling it,
> > anyway.
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> IOLTC it is, as soon as I get the confirmation back from Pairlist it will go
> live. I had come to the same conclusion this morning but am happy to see
> the group consensus as well.
Hmm, well, if I didn't know what it stood for, but I knew what other names
stood for, I would see IOLTC and immediately assume that (or wonder if) it
stood for I(something) O(something) LEGO Train Club -- where I and O were
regional letters, maybe Inland Oregon LEGO Train Club or something like
that.
Tradition/convention has:
XXLTC = (Area) LEGO Train Club
PNLTC = _P_acific _N_orthwest _L_EGO _T_rain _C_lub
GMLTC = _G_reater _M_idwest _L_EGO _T_rain _C_lub
NGLTC = _N_orthern _G_eorgia _L_EGO _T_rain _C_lub
WAMALTC = _Wa_shington _M_etro _A_rea _L_EGO _T_rain _C_lub
etc.
so using IO to mean
IOLTC = _I_nternational _O_rganization [of] _L_EGO _T_rain _C_lub[s]
breaks the consistency of the tradition. I'm not trying to say that's bad,
just pointing out that it's potentially confusing (which in my book is bad,
because I'm a geek, but it might not be bad in everyone else's book).
Someone suggested LMTA (_L_EGO _M_odel _T_rain _A_ssociation) or LMRA
(_L_EGO _M_odel _R_ailroad _A_ssociation) -- or something like that.
(Unfortunately, lmta.org and lmra.org are already taken. Is that what they
were?)
Maybe there's an option which puts the I at the front of the word and the O
(or equivalent) at the end of the word -- ILTCA or ILTCO, for example...?
Or something more radical like WWLTF = _W_orld_w_ide _L_EGO _T_rain
_F_ederation...? (wwltf.org and iltf.org are both open, BTW.)
Just throwing out a few more ideas (some of which are rehashes of older
conversations coming to mind).
--Todd
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| >sipped> (...) Here are some: :)) Or Association of Lego Model Railroading? ALMR? but get this ALMR.org is "Association of Lighting and Mercury Recyclers" !?!?!?!?!? Or National (going off topic) Lego Model Railroad Association. Its open. Or (...) (24 years ago, 28-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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| "James Brown" <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote in message news:G9FtHA.68o@lugnet.com... (...) anyway. (...) IOLTC it is, as soon as I get the confirmation back from Pairlist it will go live. I had come to the same conclusion this morning but am (...) (24 years ago, 27-Feb-01, to lugnet.trains.org)
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