Hi all. My name is Alessandro Grimaldi. I have been a computer programmer since 1985, and VBA developer since 1998, specialized in MS Access. I have a solid international experience, having worked several years for the United Nations in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, North Korea, Austria, Italy, and for the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. I'm currently admin/moderator in several groups on LinkedIn and Facebook, speaker in several Access-related groups, and chairman of Access User Groups Italia. My main field of interest and research is interactive graphical interfaces with Access, a subject on which I have also published two books. I hope to be able to make a valuable contribution here...
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Hello, Alessandro, and welcome to the forums.
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Ciao, Alessandro! Welcome aboard!
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Wow. That's quite a long left. Anyway, welcome
Thanks. I never heard this expression... what does "That's quite a long left" mean?
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OK... what's SWAG?I THINK @Isaac meant to say "Long List" but that is a SWAG at best...
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Lol, Silly, Wild-Ass GuessOK... what's SWAG?
I think Americans are very smart and clever. They are capable of remembering so many shorten form of different words. FBI, CIA, FSU, IRS, ICE, GDP, DOJ, NYPD, LPD, DOD, NFD, NSA, EPA, ........OK... what's SWAG?
It's very interesting how they tend to shorten the words into letters and how they can remember all of them. I, frequently have to check what do these words mean.
This morning I was trying to check the statics of MLB, and no surprize I came back with empty hands. Everything was shortened on MLB's official site: AB - R- H - BB - RBI - HR - E .....
I was like "What the heck..."
The other day, someone in a tweet replied to my comment "Every 5 yo would agree".
Neither Google nor chatGPT could help me understand what it means. 3 days later it turned out that yo means Years Old.
Well, once you know it, you know it. But the problem is what if you don't know it.
When Ohtani was new in MLB, I used to watch his home runs in youtube. Almost every comment was saying that he's a goat. It bothered me for several months why everyone calls him an animal. To me, he was as respectful as possible. Has he done something wrong? It made me so sad that someone from here has done something so wrong that almost everybody calls him an animal. And the day I found out the meaning.......Well that was another day.
I know @isladogs is MVP in this case too.
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At one time, to call an athlete a 'goat' meant that he/she failed at a moment when they were needed the most - to 'choke' was we call it.
Now, I'm in doubt again what those comments about Ohtani meant
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If you think everyday life has a bewildering set of acronyms and abbreviations, try working with the military. When I started as a contractor, I learned about CNRF 10 (Commander, Naval Reserve Force, Code 10) and RCCPDS, DFAS, BUPERS, and RSTARS, IMAPMIS, ... PLUS all of the ones you mentioned, KitaYama. Then I became the sys admin for RHS. (OK... Reserve Headquarters Support), a VAX/VMS-based machine. It only got worse because we worried about DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which then got bought out by COMPAQ (which actually WASN'T an acronym), which in turn got bought out by HP (which WAS an acronym). For better or worse, this is now a world of abbreviations and acronyms.
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