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WCDT 2971-2975 (1st - 5th June 2015)
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 06 Jun 2015, 03:59 ---
Yes they did. "YMMV" is an acronym including contraction of "your mileage may vary" as I'm sure you are aware but you seem to have missed that the term "mileage", means "volume of fuel consumed per unit distance travelled" and is generally expressed in miles per gallon.
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I may be wrong but I've seen YMMV used in contexts (and used it myself), where "mileage" means roughly "accumulated experience in the topic under discussion" (be it math, best strategy in some game, or life experience in general). IOW "distance travelled along a more abstract journey". I would use "gas mileage" to make sure that I'm referring to fuel consumption in particular.
But I'm a furriner, and this would not be the first time I have clung to a wrong belief about the meaning of a phrase. While friends are too polite to point out my mistake :-/
pwhodges:
Not wrong. The phrase has a specific literal use and a common idiomatic usage alongside it.
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: tywren on 06 Jun 2015, 07:53 ---Alphawolf55 gets a like from me just for Thrillho's bad attitude, and mod bullying.
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Sexist insults aren't allowed. That's not exactly a huge impost, I think. I, and I think anyone, can get by without violating this minor restriction, yet express themselves with suitable vigour.
If I may suggest an alternative - here's one containing every letter in the alphabet.
--- Quote ---'Sir, you are an apogenous, bovaristic, coprolalial, dasypygal, excerebrose, facinorous, gnathonic, hircine, ithyphallic, jumentous, kyphotic, labrose, mephitic, napiform, oligophrenial, papuliferous, quisquilian, rebarbative, saponaceous, thersitical, unguinous, ventripotent, wlatsome, xylocephalous, yirning zoophyte'.
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Not that you deserve that. Nor even to be circumscribed, let alone castigated.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 06 Jun 2015, 03:59 ---Yes they did. "YMMV" is an acronym including contraction of "your mileage may vary" as I'm sure you are aware but you seem to have missed that the term "mileage", means "volume of fuel consumed per unit distance travelled" and is generally expressed in miles per gallon.
I have personally never seen it used to mean anything else, even when the units are litres and kilometres, so you came across as trying to make some sort of snarky comment about people being inconstant, which is ridiculous given the origin of the YMMV term; originally a legal disclaimer found in automotive advertising media that maid claims about the products typical fuel efficiency, it has come to mean an acknowledgment that everyone's personal circumstances are different and, therefore, trying to guarantee a claim is valid in all cases would be ridiculous so it would be best if everyone acknowledged that.
Hence the confusion.
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You know your joke bombed when someone writes a dissertation on the punchline.
Omega Entity:
Maybe he'd never heard the phrase outside of a car commercial?
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