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How about a more memorable acronym for this?
perhaps: Found In Lots of Movies (FILM, or FILOM if you're being pedantic)?
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it reads scribble and I know it immediately... |
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Well true, most of the time it reads "big scary capitals, you're in trouble mate"... |
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Well, "HB" seems pretty short as it is. ;) |
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Maybe it would be shorter, but it would still be an hb jargonism that wouldn't make any sense until you've looked it up or had someone explain it. The fact that it's not currently easily recognizable and mistaken for a real word actually makes it more tolerable in my mind. |
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It would seem to me to make more sense to adopt a scheme like "help#1" or somesuch to indicate a numbered reason listed in the help file, though they're not currently numbered. |
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If you want to go crazy with it and make it actually helpful, have the software recognize the format and render it as link to the appropriate section of the help file. |
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Don't forget the 'great idea posted by a newbie' acronym, which (because it doesn't appear anywhere except the ideas of new users) is impossible for the intended recipient to understand without the non-acronymic version being written in brackets underneath. |
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And I'm with half in the <obligatory misunderstanding of the idea title>. |
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And the outside world uses WTCTTISITHWIBNIIWIAM - "Wasn't that cool, that thing I saw in the halfbakery? Wouldn't it be neat if it were in a movie?" |
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There is definately something we can
work with. + |
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I do think that it is too long an acronym and said so in an anno on an idea, |
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You can blame me for this one. |
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< e-mails brutal beating to [waugs] > |
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<e-mails kicking whilst down to [waugs]>
I think that you can broaden it out to include film, books, radio, plays etc and just make the call as 'Existing Fiction'. Not a very exciting or exotic tag though, I admit. |
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WICTTISAAAITHWIBGITKI = Wasn't it cool that thing I saw as an acronym in the halfbakery? Wouldn't it be great if they kept it? |
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<kicks [waugs] in the e-mail, just because it's trendy> |
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<<kicks [waugs] in the e-mail> where exactly is that, anatomically speaking? sounds painful. |
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I guess somewhere that has an attachment? |
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I always thought "[marked for deletion] literary reference" was a more elegant way of saying this. |
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But you're saying something different, movies not really being literature. |
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You can't judge a book by its movie. |
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perhaps we could have tinyURL to the full acronym in acronym finder. |
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Taking [half]'s idea further - surely we could halve HB into UD. |
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//You can't judge a book by its movie.//
Not unless it happens to be 'Pet Semetary' by Stephen KIng. In this case you can. |
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The long acronym was a joke that, admittedly, has run its course. If we replace it, let's replace it with something that a first-time reader can understand. I'm sure that even if it's not an acronym, it'll be shorter. |
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What we're trying to describe is someone turning fiction they've encountered into reality. So, "existing fiction" doesn't quite cover it - it doesn't matter whether it exists in fiction unknown to the author. The point is that the poster heard it somewhere else, and wants to make it real, and that's their only original contribution to the idea - like that other thing, only for real. (Which of course still is no more real than that other thing, only, usually, not as well-written.) |
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I think "found in lots of movies" is slightly different, and probably also valid, maybe as a fictious counterpart to "widely known to exist" and a replacement for "WIBNI". |
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"Me Too" never specifies that the place you saw something be a real, existant place. |
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What about just "unoriginal concept?" Or, we could do it
by using the archetypical WTCTTISITMWIBNIIWR source:
[mfd] matrix rehashed. |
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