-----Message d'origine-----
De : michael david sharp <msharp@umich.edu>
=C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca <rara-avis@icomm.ca>
Date : jeudi 11 juin 1998 14:59
Objet : RARA-AVIS: decoding "acronyms"
>These aren't technically acronyms, as acronyms sound
like actual words
>when you say them (e.g. M.A.D.D. -- Mother's Against
Drunk Driving) -- b=
ut
>here in the U.S. at . . . sometime early in the
morning, I can't think o=
f
>what you call the following if not
"acronyms."
>
>IMO=3DIn my opinion
>
>FWIW=3DFor what it's worth
>
>BTW=3DBy the way
>
>ps I just read *Shoot the Piano Player* (Goodis novel,
basis for Truffau=
t
>film) and loved it -- I didn't like the Goodis I'd
read before this.
>Highly recommended. MDS
>
>On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Sonia Abecassis wrote:
>
>> Hello
>> These discussions are very enlightening, from the
perspective of a Fre=
nch hard-boiled fan , I heartily conccur with the opinion
expressed ; how=
ever , would it be possible to use less acronyms or explicit
them ? what =
is IMO, BTW, FWIW ?=20
>> Thanks a million
>> Sonia
>>=20
>>=20
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : sarah matthews
<ejmd@mcmail.com>
>> =C0 : rara-avis@icomm.ca
<rara-avis@icomm.ca>
>> Date : jeudi 11 juin 1998 10:33
>> Objet : RARA-AVIS: dickless realities?
>>=20
>>=20
>> >On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, "Lawrence R. (Dick)
Tartow, M.D."
>> ><goldensam@sprintmail.com>
carped:
>> >
>> >> No amount of political correctness or
newspeak or silly-ass revisio=
nism
>> >> can change certain realities. "Dickless
dicks." indeed!
>> >
>> >You are welcome to take what reassurance you
can from your 'certain
>> >realities,' but rest assured your certainties
are certainly not every=
one
>> >else's! FWIW, 'political correctness' is,
IMO, a rather unpleasant t=
erm
>> >usually deployed by the right as part of
populist discourse in an
>> >attempt to discredit or undermine the left.
(The motives, if not the
>> >politics, of) its users are thus viewed with
suspicion and/or contemp=
t.
>> >
>> >Judging by your reaction, the 'dickless dick'
is clearly a concept yo=
u
>> >have not previously encountered. Might I
suggest you read more widel=
y?=20
>> >Perhaps then those 'certain realities' can
take on some kind of a
>> >context.
>> >
>> >BTW, the distinctions between 'literary' and
'sociological' are not a=
s
>> >neat as you appear to think. Popular texts,
'literary' or otherwise =
are
>> >part of the terrain upon which ideological
tensions and differences a=
re
>> >explored and resolved.
>> >
>> >
>> >Eddie Duggan
>>
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