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[redbird]

The word of the day is "iff": I keep wanting to use it in comments.

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[zsero.livejournal.com]

I keep getting confused by iff, because I first came across that combination of letters in IBM's OCL (the IBM minis' equivalent of JCL), where IFF means "if false". It was only several years later that I learned that everyone else it means almost the exact opposite.

I'm also perhaps the only fan who, when I hear the letters RPG, first think "Report Program Generator", and only half a second later, when that obviously doesn't fit the context, do I think "Role Playing Game" ("Rocket Propelled Grenade" is the third meaning, but that doesn't come up very often).

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[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

I had a good chuckle watching Black Hawk Down the first time, since my gamer brain kept using the wrong definition.