Last year I made the following suggestion:
'Owing to my background as an English teacher in a foreign country I find it reasonably easy to put myself in non – native speakers’ shoes when I read posts.
We native – speakers blithely put in acronyms like BTW, AFAIK, IMHO or FOV, DOF, PP etc. and expect everybody to understand them. Imagine somebody wrote ‘ Live View is WYSIWYG’ – we’d probably understand it but a non – native speaker would be reaching for his English – Klingon dictionary.
OK, jokes apart – my suggestion is to have a section where a few basic tools are easily accessible – perhaps the ‘Links’ section would be appropriate:
Internet acronyms: Internet Acronyms Dictionary
Photographic acronyms or terms: http://www.wonderfulphotos.com/artic...eras/acronyms/
Terms beginning with "C"
to give just a few examples.
I see we now have 4,383 members – but how many of them actually participate in posts or upload photos? A very very small percentage. I suspect it’s because they find the prospect of writing in the kind of English they read here to be beyond their capabilities. How about an open letter inviting all non – native speakers to join in, whatever their level? – we may criticize their photos, but not their English!

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Hi Mauve -

I made the offending post. Since English is my second language (I moved here when I was 9), I guess I should have known better.

In this case, I almost consciously avoided spelling it out. As I made the post, I was troubled by the fact that Panasonic's EPP is misnamed, since my company does not have an EPP agreement with them (I checked last year), and I joined through facebook.

(We do have an EPP agreement with Apple, and I can't wait until midnight tomorrow when I can order my (discounted) iPad2 :)

Just to clarify (I think), in the UK it's called a Staff Discount. Or a way of flogging off stuff from the warehouse which isn't selling, in the guise of appearing to offer loyal workers, sorry colleagues, something of a "bargain" ....

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New sticky thread created for Acronyms and Other Helpful Terms. Thank you Mauve and Colin and everyone else! Excellent suggestions.

I'm going to ask that people add their definitions, acronyms, terms, etc., over there now. I'll actually copy a couple over there now, too.

So as not to add to anymore misunderstandings, I'm going to close this thread so we can have one place for all this helpful information now.

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