On 1/6/23 15:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...]
I know that's going to be an obstacle for many of the people here, since we're generally a mature bunch, but that's the nature of a living language. If you want to use a slang term that you know is pretty old, and you aren't sure whether its meaning is still the same, you can look it up on Urban Dictionary, or just Google it and see what contexts you get for it. Or, when in doubt, just don't use the slang term at all. There are people here for whom English is a second language, and slang terms and idioms tend to confuse them immensely.
As a native English only speaker, in an 88 year old rut, I agree, the use of the "slanguage" we all understand is totally confusing to the Chinese or Eastern Europeans that man an info or support links at a 3d printers site. Our 3 letter acronyms are totally confusing to them. I don't imagine its any better on the net in general.
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