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What does tl;dr mean? I've seen it a few times here and wondered about it.
by mixmax 17y ago
What does tl;dr mean? I've seen it a few times here and wondered about it.
- 83457 17y agotoo long; didn't read
- sho 17y agoThat's the literal meaning. Subtexts include: this is way too verbose for the information it's delivering, this is way too editorialised, this needs editing, etc. So "tl;dr" is also a judgement of the resource referred to. http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tl%3Bdr#Chapter_1 http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tl%3Bdr#Chapter_1
- mixmax 17y agoThanks.
- rw 17y agohttp://www.google.com/search?q=tl+dr http://www.google.com/search?q=tl+dr
- cema 17y agoOr rather, http://www.google.com/search?q=%22tl%3Bdr%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22tl%3Bdr%22 More specifically, a summary of a longish text: item 2 from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLDR http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLDR
- shizcakes 17y agoNote that this actually originates from the SomethingAwful Forums.