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647 cal fixture on ebay
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What does 'IIRC' mean? I presume, that is one of those cute ham operators
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abbreviations, that even few of them know what they mean. Not all of us on Tekscope are ham operators. Regards Miroslav Pokorni ----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Phillips" <t.phillips@...> To: <tekscopes@...> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 5:00 AM Subject: [TekScopes] 647 cal fixture on ebay Hi, all; |
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IIRC = "if I recall"
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Miroslav Pokorni wrote: What does 'IIRC' mean? I presume, that is one of those cute ham operators |
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Jeff W
Actually, it means "If I Recall Correctly"
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(& it's not Ham lingo, it's "internetese") Jeff Dan Kerl wrote: |
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Craig Sawyers
What does 'IIRC' mean? I presume, that is one of those cute ham operatorsNo - it goes back to the early days of e-mail. There are dozens of these, which you can check up on the web. IIRC means If I Remember Correctly. LOL is Laughing Out Loud. ROTFLMAO is Rolls On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off. And so forth.... Nothing to do with radio hams. Craig |
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Stan & Patricia Griffiths
I've been a "ham" for 51 years and "IIRC" is a new one one me!
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My guess: "IIRC" = "In the Instance that you Really Care . . ." Stan w7ni@... ----- Original Message -----
From: "Miroslav Pokorni" <mpokorni2000@...> To: <tekscopes@...>; "Tim Phillips" <t.phillips@...> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [TekScopes] 647 cal fixture on ebay What does 'IIRC' mean? I presume, that is one of those cute ham operators |
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Miroslav,
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Those types of abbreviations or acronyms came into use back in the early days of personal computer communications, when modems were 300 Baud (and then 1200 and even 2400 baud), mainly because of the low bandwidth, AFAIK (as far as I know). I remember it well: At 300 Baud, even under the best line conditions, you could still see each individual character being displayed on your screen (or on your terminal's thermal printer!). So, to keep the number of characters that had to be sent and received as low as possible during a two-way conversation via modems, or while using a dial-up BBS (bulletin board system), many of those types of abbreviations were adopted. Sometimes, people who did NOT use any abbreviations and refused to do so were actually the targets of criticism, and possibly intense criticism, because they were wasting bandwidth (and (possibly many) other peoples' time). Some of the most-common ones, AFAIK, are: AFAIK = as far as I know IMO = in my opinion IMHO = in my humble opionion (and variants of these) IIRC = if I recall correctly (or) if I remember correctly ROTFL = rolling on the floor laughing (and variants, as mentioned by someone else) LOL = (either) laughing out loud (or) lots of laughs And there are/were MANY more. Regards, Tom Gootee Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:41:52 -0800 |
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Craig Sawyers
And there are/were MANY more.What Tom says about baud rate is quite correct. I was using e-mail at home while we were starting up a business back in 1985. Used an acoustic modem - sort of a pair of sucker pads that fitted on the telephone handset - which chugged along at 300 baud on a good day, and storage was measured in bytes - not even kilobytes. The text-messagers nowadays think they invented acronym-speak - but they are really just responding to communicating in a medium with a strict limit on the number of characters transmitted, viewed on a tiny cell-phone handset, just the same problem as we had in the early to mid '80s. If anyone is interested, there is a very complete list here I think my favourite, just remembered in browsing that list, is BOHICA (bend over, here it comes again). Craig |
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Snort!
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Seriously, it's not ham shorthand at all, it's chatroom shorthand, stands for If I Recall Correctly. Other related ones: AFAIK As Far As I Know YMMV Your Mileage May Vary These serve to delineate precisely how much you do *not* know about what you're talking about :) Regards, Dave Wise -----Original Message----- |
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