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Yes yes, zm, thank you,, but I still need that synonym
Incidentally Erik at a location I'm not sure protocol allows me to identify, maintains that there is no such synonym and that hence we must refer to it only as curtailed link
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Incidentally Erik at a location I'm not sure protocol allows me to identify, maintains that there is no such synonym and that hence we must refer to it only as curtailed link
I searched on the site, that of which Dahil by protocol cannot speak, but found no such post by Erik saying any such thing. In fact, I noticed on the FAQ he calls a link both a hyperlink and a URL (note that the latter is incorrect as per my posting infra). One of the few uses of the word curtailed was by the Dahil himself. Quoting his Number One Son, no less. Are you sure you're remembering things correctly? If you can find the spare keystrokes, send me a PM with the link in it, and I'll get back to you.
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the site we're so merrily avoiding mention of is likely the Wordwizard Clubhouse.
the shortened hyperlink (link) is also sometimes referred to as an abbreviated link. we're sorry that there's no one word to use for it other than link; but there's usually no need to distinguish between a link and a shortened link, except when you get someone posting "long links" which can disrupt a forum. and then you merely need to call attention to the forum's posting toolset, which in our case has a button labeled "Create a link to a webpage" -- note the choice of wording here.
if we were to get into the underlying code or markup of links, this would probably make more (or less) sense, but.
in summary then, a hyperlink is a link is a hotlink is a weblink. YMMV.
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the site we're so merrily avoiding mention of is likely the Wordwizard Clubhouse
Yup. I know that, and Dahil knows that, and you know that, and anybody else who cared to could've figured that out. All too well. (And so on and so forth; w00t!) I think he's misremembering a PM from the Erik in question (one of the admins or posters there) as somehow a posting, but then I can't be sure because Dahil lives in an alternate reality that makes Castaneda's look like port and cigars in the library.
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zm: Yes I do find the entire megillah very difficult indeed and envy you fellas all your experience in the art which I too might acquire if only I had that much time left
Perhaps it wasn't Erik but Phil who incidentally is in the last stages of an algorithm rewrap that will simplify even further various functions such as searching. I will find the pertinent post and provide a link
Meanwhile thank your for the coinage "sausage" for truncated link, it's very imaginative and I will do all I can to propagate it
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zm, thank you again. Alas if I only had the time. Incidentally it was son not grandson, though I am proud to announce the latter is on its way--happy Holiday
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FWIW, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor (with some others) of the Web (i.e., HTTP, HTML) in RFC 1866 Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 uses the terms link and hyperlink interchangeably. He does not use the term sublink, curtailed link, or sausage.
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and, it should be noted, a link is a subset of sausage, not the other way 'round!
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thank your for the coinage "sausage" for truncated link
Thanks for that, Dah.
Why don't you just call it a sorry for bubbling this up again and I promise it won't happen too often, Bill Gates conspiratorially curtailed sausage algorithm, and I don't care who knows, and have done with it? (<== the following was a rhetorical question)
When I type sausage, which I pronounce Dahil, I mean get stuffed, as in any old turkey bird.
"Hi, tsu," said Humpty Dumpty after the fall.
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tsu, as that hadn't occurred to me in my 78th year with senility impending, what you have remarked about the sausage is eminently logical and --most happy Holiday Season
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