backformations (again)

[Robert S. Wachal]

I thought I knew most of the ndet acronyms but OT a d ISTM are new to me.
Ill add them to the 3nd of my abbreviations dictionary.

Thanks very much, Mark.
Best,

Bob

At 05:59 PM 2/8/01 -0500, you wrote:
>I used the Netspeakism "ISTM" without explanation, and Bob Wachal queried
>it. Sorry. "It seems to me". Common in newsgroups, along with many other
>hedges, discourse markers (BTW "by the way", OT "off topic", ObX
>"obligatory mention of [nominal topic of group]" ...), and so on.
>
>-- Mark A. Mandel
>
>