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Well, let's see, a search on Google:
I get these two hits ...
... and a couple of results down:
Clicking through shows this (just using the second result):
So I'm assuming the user posted something, then decided not to and since there's not an outright "delete post" function, replaced the original content with the short hand for DELETED
3 letters and you can play Scrabble.
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So I'm assuming the user posted something, then decided not to and since there's not an outright "delete post" function, replaced the original content with the short hand for DELETED
Vowels never get the love they deserve...
Well, let's see, a search on Google:
I get these two hits ...
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... and a couple of results down:
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Clicking through shows this (just using the second result):
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So I'm assuming the user posted something, then decided not to and since there's not an outright "delete post" function, replaced the original content with the short hand for DELETED
Well, I had read some of his previous posts, and assumed therefore that it was an incompetent rendition of the other, well known abbreviation, of "tl dr".
To be honest, as I dislike abbreviations used online (an excuse for lazy and illiterate posting, at times), and viewed some of the posts of the poster in question as meriting less than a serous interrogation, I was not about to waste my time consulting Google.
Besides, one word (or one abbreviation) posts are bad form, to my mind.
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Well, it is not one I had ever come across.
Thank you; that makes sense.
I'm pleased to see that my guess was correct! I didn't Google or anything, just knew that often members who cannot delete their own posts will erase whatever they'd written and then rather than leaving a blank, empty post, will write "delete" or "deleted," some such..... and in looking at what was presented, I mentally slotted in some "e's" and bingo! Made sense to me.....
Your obviously sharper than me! Obvious now you say it, but my mind drew a blank.I'm pleased to see that my guess was correct! I didn't Google or anything, just knew that often members who cannot delete their own posts will erase whatever they'd written and then rather than leaving a blank, empty post, will write "delete" or "deleted," some such..... and in looking at what was presented, I mentally slotted in some "e's" and bingo! Made sense to me.....
I'm pleased to see that my guess was correct! I didn't Google or anything, just knew that often members who cannot delete their own posts will erase whatever they'd written and then rather than leaving a blank, empty post, will write "delete" or "deleted," some such..... and in looking at what was presented, I mentally slotted in some "e's" and bingo! Made sense to me.....
Excellent guess, (a well educated guess), but my query is why not go to the trouble of writing out the whole word "deleted" rather than an abbreviated version that is a lot less well known?
I've got three job offers..FINALLY
One for Alaska..lateral move but..Alaska
One for Germany..lateral move..close to home..wife says no
Another for Germany...promotion...further from home..wife says yes
So it looks like I'm headed back to Europe in the next couple months but until then there is a lot to do
One for Alaska..lateral move but..Alaska
One for Germany..lateral move..close to home..wife says no
Another for Germany...promotion...further from home..wife says yes
So it looks like I'm headed back to Europe in the next couple months but until then there is a lot to do
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Woot woot! Congratulations!
Congratulations and the best of luck with it.
Typing "deleted" in 2019 is just waste of time
life is short so i try to take short cuts
Either that or he's typing on a MBP Pro keyboard from the last few years.
Wait, my MBP has a __keyboard__? Next you'll be telling me it has a display of some sort ...
* Typed from Cherry MX switches *
Oh and I loved Speed Racer as a kid still do, haven't seen the live action film yet.
Oh me too, I watched it when I was very young, I suspect it was part of what made me a car nut
Looking back, I kind of chuckle at how violent it was, people constantly dying in flaming car crashes!The more modern Adventures of Speed Racer anime is pretty good, the movie, well, I get what they were trying to do in terms of look and feel, but it's a raging mess. I'd like to see a totally realistic take, by that I mean, all the crazy car capabilities are there, fights are insane wire-fu, but the surface aesthetic is completely real (think The Matrix vs. Sin City [or more to the point, what the decided to do]).
Typing "deleted" in 2019 is just waste of time
No, it's not.
If you wish to communicate something to an audience, irrespective of whether it is online or not, what you say (or write) needs to be comprehensible.
Otherwise, you are wasting their time.
@Scepticalscribe a coworker had a fountain pen and I immediately thought of you. I asked him to write on my House of Commons notepad. It doesn't bleed to the other pages.