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It's a common abbreviation[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#14)
by sconeu on Sat Jul 19, 2008 at 12:05:02 PM PDT

for "no text"

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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States of America.
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What?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#15)
by Anonymous User on Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 07:42:06 AM PDT

Why is nobody in this thread making much sense? First a message that says only "n/t" instead of actually saying something in English, and then a message that just says "for no text". That's at least English, but it's just a sentence fragment without any apparent meaning.

Have none of you been to school since your ages were somewhere in the single digits? I expect better from my eight-year-old granddaughter, and usually even get it.

Unlike most of the more nonsensical posts I've seen around here, these ones don't even seem to be trying to sell anything. No links, and no product names.

Now if anyone cares to explain, in complete sentences of plain English, whatever they intended to say before, they're welcome to. Otherwise they're welcome to stop wasting bandwidth.

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In other words[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#16)
by sconeu on Tue Jul 22, 2008 at 06:53:23 AM PDT

It's the Web 2.0 equivalent of "This post intentionally left blank".

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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States of America.
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Eh?[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#17)
by Anonymous User on Fri Jul 25, 2008 at 05:03:24 AM PDT

Why would someone intentionally leave a post blank? The whole purpose of posting something is to say something!

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It's still a pun[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#18)
by NorthFork on Tue Jul 29, 2008 at 03:39:18 PM PDT

He said, in the subject of the n/t post, that "Threads of copyright abuse" is a pun...in response to the first poster.

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That isn't what I asked.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#19)
by Anonymous User on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 07:43:52 AM PDT

That isn't what I asked.

Why would someone leave a post blank? People will either not see anything at all, or scratch their heads and move on.

If you intend to actually communicate something, you need to actually say something, and it needs to be meaningful rather than just a handful of letters and punctuation.


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Give it up, Northfork.[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#20)
by sconeu on Fri Aug 01, 2008 at 01:59:36 PM PDT

It's not worth debating him, since he's the only one who has a problem with it.

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Which of the following is not a color?
Green, Yellow, Navy, Silver, Black, Fig

Well, they all are....

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I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the United States of America.
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I object![ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#21)
by Anonymous User on Mon Aug 11, 2008 at 07:57:47 AM PDT

I object to this slanderous mischaracterization!

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