These are questions which have come up this week:
1. What does FAQ stand for?
- Frequently Asked Questions
2- What does T & C stand for?
- Terms and Conditions (usually abbreviated on discussion forums)
3. What are ‘lemons’, ‘lemony’ and ‘limes’ mean in fan fiction?
- lemons and lemony refer to graphic sex. Limes means character almost have sex or that it is implied but not described.
4. What do the buttons AC, C, CE on a calculator mean?
- AC means All Clear – will clear all entries
- C or CE means Clear Entry – will only clear the last entry
5. What does a.k.a mean?
- also known as
6. What is Snopes?
- Snopes.com, officially the Urban Legends Reference Pages, is a website covering urban legends, Internet rumors, e-mail forwards, and other stories of unknown or questionable origin. It is a well-known resource for validating and debunking such stories in American popular culture, receiving 300,000 visits a day. I would recommend running all ‘strange facts’ you find on social media through here if you are not sure.
7. What are tropes?
- a: words or expressions used in a figurative sense : figure of speech
- b: common or overused themes or devices : cliché <the usual horror movie tropes>
8. What is a meme?
- An image, video, etc. that is passed electronically from one Internet user to another.
- The “meme” word was first introduced by evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins, in 1976. “Meme” comes from the Greek word “mimema” (meaning “something imitated”, American Heritage Dictionary). Dawkins described memes as a being a form of cultural propogation, a way for people to transmit social memories and cultural ideas to each other. Not unlike the way that DNA and life will spread from location to location, a meme idea will also travel from mind to mind.