[BC] Digital TV

[Scott Fybush]

WLOYPROD WLOYPROD wrote:
> Good grief is the article written in instant message speak?!  It refers to the ABC network as "Net" and audience members as "auds", websites are "webs", ABC is "Alphabet"... WTF is happening to reporters?  I hope this is just an online blog or something that doesn't see real print.
> 
> Yes, somebody still has a case of the Mondays.

No, no - this is "Variety"-speak, or "Slanguage," and it's older than 
any of us reading this.

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=slanguage

You've never seen their famous headline "STIX NIX HIX PIX," which 
translated more or less as "Rural areas reject farm movies"?

Pick up a paper copy of Variety from the publication bins in Vegas next 
month and you can see "slanguage" in all its glory.

Gotta ankle...there's a skein on the CW weblet I want to catch!

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