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  2. Carbon copy - Wikipedia

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    Carbon copy can be used as a transitive verb with the meaning described under e-mail below related to the CC field of an e-mail message. That is, to send the message to additional recipients beyond the primary recipient. It is common practice to abbreviate the verb form, and many forms are used, including cc and cc:.

  3. List of email subject abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    LSFW, meaning Less Safe For Work. Used in corporate emails to indicate that the content may be sexually explicit or profane, helping the recipient to avoid potentially objectionable material. MIA, meaning Missing In Action. Used when original email has lost in work process. NIM, meaning No Internal Message. Used when the entire content of the ...

  4. Closed captioning - Wikipedia

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    This delay is because the machine does not know what the person is going to say next, so after the person on the show says the sentence, the captions appear. [27] Automatic computer speech recognition works well when trained to recognize a single voice, and so since 2003, the BBC does live subtitling by having someone re-speak what is being ...

  5. Posting style - Wikipedia

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    When a message is replied to in e-mail, Internet forums, or Usenet, the original can often be included, or "quoted", in a variety of different posting styles.. The main options are interleaved posting (also called inline replying, in which the different parts of the reply follow the relevant parts of the original post), bottom-posting (in which the reply follows the quote) or top-posting (in ...

  6. Enclosure - Wikipedia

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    [60] "Before enclosure the cottager [t] was a labourer with land; after enclosure was a labourer without land." [60] Marxist historians, such as Barrington Moore Jr., focused on enclosure as a part of the class conflict that eventually eliminated the English peasantry and saw the emergence of the bourgeoisie.

  7. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    To clarify: She attended [secondary] school, where this was the intended meaning, but the type of school was unstated in the original sentence. To reduce the size of a quotation: X contains Y, and under certain circumstances, X may contain Z as well may be reduced to X contains Y [and sometimes Z] .

  8. Sentence spacing - Wikipedia

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    One of the most popular arguments against wider sentence spacing is that it was created for monospaced fonts of the typewriter and is no longer needed with modern proportional fonts. [80] However, proportional fonts existed together with wide sentence spacing for centuries before the typewriter and remained for decades after its invention.

  9. Postpositive adjective - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese, for example, virtually all modifiers come before the noun, whereas in the Khmer language they follow the noun.) Sometimes a noun with a postpositive modifier comes to form a set phrase, similar in some ways to the set phrases with postpositive adjectives referred to above (in that, for example, the plural ending will normally attach ...