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      VI. Form degrees of comparison.
      Old, general, new, typical, unique.

      VII. Think and say.
      Sum up what the text says about: A) The form of Internet addresses; B) Domains: orga-
nizational top-level domains, geographical top-level domains; C) Sub-domains and manner of
reading them.




LESSON 13

                            USENET ACRONYMS AND SLANG

       A computer system is workless without acronyms. Those marvelous little abbreviations
that make you feel so important when you know what they mean.
       The table below contains all of the common Usenet acronyms.
       These acronyms are used in all manner of Internet discourse not only within Usenet ar-
ticles, but in mail messages too.

                             Common Communication Acronyms

   BRB                  be right back             MOTSS              member of the same sex
  BTW                     by the way               MUD               multiple user dimension
    CU              see you ( good- bye)            Ob               (as a prefix ) obligatory
   FAQ           frequently asked question        Objoke                  obligatory joke
  FAQL         frequently asked question list       OS                  operations system
  FOAF                friend of a friend            PD                    public domain
                                                                         significant other
    FYI            for your information              SO
                                                                   (spouse, boy / girlfriend…)
 IMHO            in my humble opinion             ROTFL           rolling on the floor laughing
  IMO                in my opinion                 WRT                    with respect to
 MOTAS        member of the appropriate sex       MOTOS           member of the opposite sex

       Besides the acronyms and abbreviations, you will also meet a great number of slang terms
and expressions. Usenet is a vast system of discussion groups.
       A computer that acts as the Usenet repository for an organization is called a news server.
The person who manages the news server is the news administrator. Each news server gets its
information from another news server on a regular basis. This arrangement is called news feed.
       The items that you read in a Usenet discussion group are called articles or postings. A
Usenet article is divided into three parts: the header, the body, and an optional signature. When
you send an article to Usenet, you say that you post it. The series of articles is called a thread.
When you read such articles, we say that you are following the thread.
       To read Usenet articles you use a program called a newsreader. A term you will encounter
frequently is flame. This refers to a personal mail message in which someone says something
critical about someone else. The word “flame” is also used as a verb, as in “Scot posted an article
without a joke to rec.humor, and he was flamed from all over the world.”
       There are much more slangs used in Internet and Usenet.


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