The FAQ of forum terms and abbreviations

Post by **laurie** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:29 pm

It's impolite to point, Kvetch.

Sean Whitton · Post by **Sean Whitton** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:38 pm

Kvetch: Makes a serious post.
laurie: Makes a silly comment.
Xyrael: Notices the strangeness of it all...

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:46 pm

A fair point, I do conceed...

Post by **laurie** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:45 am

Xyrael wrote:Kvetch: Makes a serious post.
laurie: Makes a silly comment.
Xyrael: Notices the strangeness of it all...

Not a silly comment at all, young man. Proper etiquette is very important for a community like the IBDoF. I was merely informing Kvetch that pointing is not considered "proper etiquette."

/me goes off to find another investor in new bridge to nowhere ...

Post by **Kvetch** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:58 pm

Added a new term to my minimalist FAQ:

'offline' - this board has develped a nonstandard usage for this term, to refer to messages invisible to normal users (so PMs, the hidden fora available to special groups and email are all 'offline'). This can be quite confusing and please ask for clarification of what is meant if you are unsure.

Post by **Darb** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 7:23 pm

I added a half dozen or so more terms.

daetara · Post by **daetara** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:36 pm

so what's w00t?

blueworld · Post by **blueworld** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:22 pm

daetara wrote:so what's w00t?

An expression of celebration or victory. Its origin has been reported as:
1. Hackers gaining root (super-administrator) access to a computer.
2. A acronym for "We Own the Other Team" from gaming.
3. A contraction of "Wow, loot!" from gaming.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=w00t

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:58 am

SAS,
GOFY,
NAG.

Post by **KiltanneN** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:39 am

the grim squeaker wrote:SAS,
GOFY,
NAG.

I assume you're wanting these added - but what do you consider their usage to be?

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 4:43 am

English abbreviation slang=

[edited out]

Well, you didnt say they had no be nice.
Saying this to the majority of englishmen will usually be followed by looking for your teeth, second after locating a head to put them in.

tollbaby · Post by **tollbaby** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:51 am

Not really appropriate here. This is meant to be a helpful resource for new forum users.

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:58 am

crap, I did it again, didnt I?

Thats twice and counting.
Edited out accordingly.

Sorry for any offence caused.

*Whilstles dixie whilst slinking off*

the grim squeaker · Post by **the grim squeaker** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:55 am

BOBFOC.

= Of a lady, to have a, Body off baywatch, face off crimewatch.

Algot Runeman · Post by **Algot Runeman** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:12 am

Getting accented characters:

Update March 5, 2011:In case the forum code is reverted, the old information has been left in place, but ~~struck over~~.

These codes all depend on a keyboard trick. While holding down both the shift key and the ctrl key at the same time, tap the letter U. An underlined letter u should appear. Immediately type the code for the symbol you want. Finish by tapping the Enter key or the spacebar. The code will always be four characters long. In all cases 0 is zero, 00 is two zeros, never two capital Os. The codes can only include letters from A to F.

Examples below.

é -- acute accent on the letter e: -- shift-ctrl-u + 00e9 ;
É -- capital acute -- shift-ctrl-u + 00c9 ;
è -- grave accent -- shift-ctrl-u + 00e8 ;
ç -- cedilla -- shift-ctrl-u + 00e7
¿ -- inverted question mark -- shift-ctrl-u + 00bf
¡ -- inverted exclamation point -- shift-ctrl-u + 00a1
ñ -- nyay for Spanish -- shift-ctrl-u + 00f1
Ñ -- nyay cap for Spanish -- shift-ctrl-u + 00d1
--- a couple of common symbols
© -- copyright symbol -- shift-ctrl-u + 00a9
™ -- trademark symbol -- shift-ctrl-u + 2122
® -- registered trademark -- shift-ctrl-u + 00ae
♥ -- heart symbol -- shift-ctrl-u + 2665

Follow these links to more examples:
The first is my "go-to" page, now. Links from here give lots more symbols, too.
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/miscell ... mbols.html
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
http://runeman.org/articles/unicode/utf8_codes.html
This is the list of codes I think I'll use most often
http://home.tiscali.nl/t876506/utf8tbl.html
This second list is more extensive. Look for the code you want in the column labeled "U-hex".
http://mosssig.wordpress.com/2011/02/27 ... oding-fun/
Semi-technical explanation of unicode and UTF8 coding.

Note that users with non US keyboards can get the common accented letters directly because of the codings built in for keyboards designed for their languages, so this discussion mainly applies to people using US English keyboards.

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acute accent e: Ã© -- enter following starting with the ampersand (&) without spaces: & # 233 ;
grave accent e: Ã¨ -- enter...: & # 232 ;
cedilla c: Ã§ -- enter...: & # 231 ;
nyay for Spanish: Ã± -- enter...: & # 241 ;
inverted question mark: Â¿ -- enter...: & # 191 ;
inverted exclamation point: Â¡ -- enter: & # 161 ;

These codes will convert to the symbol they represent when you look back at the post to edit it further.

We can expand this post as more are found that work.

mdash: â€” -- enter: & # 151 ;
registered symbol: Â® -- enter: & # 174 ;
copyright symbol: Â© -- enter: & # 174 ;
cent symbol: Â¢ -- enter: & # 162 ;
pound symbol: Â£ -- enter: & # 163 ;
degree symbol: Â° -- enter: & # 176 ;
plus/minus symbol: Â± -- enter: & # 177 ;
paragraph symbol: Â¶ -- enter: & # 182 ;

Remember that the codes are shown here with spaces between the elements and they should be entered without the spaces when you want to use them.

June 12, 2010 update:
 Oops! When the forum was upgraded, these codes appear to have stopped working correctly. Sorry!

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