cmt

P.S. Eloise: Maybe liking Sicily and liking acronyms are mutually exclusive.

cigalechanta

I guess I don't read all threads like you do, so what does faboo mean?
Picci means picture? I thought a poster was using baby talk!

cmt

Somewhere in the latter part of this other thread http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...mp;tid=1080467 I posted a bunch of links to definitions of "faboo." I certainly don't read all or even most threads, but I saw this word "faboo" for the first time on Fodors and have seen it here more often than in any other place. Since I dislike it so much, it sets off a mental alarm every time I see it.

Eloise

cmt: Liking Sicily and disliking acronyms may well be mutually exclusive, but BEING Sicilian and disliking acronyms is not, at least on the basis of my experience.

I stayed at a lovely agriturismo in Sicily. Twice before I actually arrived there, I phoned to ask whether they accept credit cards. "Si, si, certo."

It came time to pay and suddenly it couldn't be done by credit card. The owner asked me to sign a letter authorizing the debit to my credit card after they got the system working. Which I happily did and returned home.

A month later, my credit card had not been charged. I wrote an e-mail asking when they thought they would put the charge through.

I got an e-mail in reply saying that it would take "tempi lunghissimi" to get their "pos" to work. "pos"??? I finally figured out that it meant their "point-of-sale" thingummy.

From there on in, things just got "ridiculouser and ridiculouser" but some three months after I had left Sicily, I finally settled my bill in a mutually acceptable fashion.

And, acronyms or no acronyms, it just gave me one more reason to love Sicily and the Sicilians.

cmt

I meant that LIKING Sicily goes along with DISLIKING acronyms. (I hate acronyms, love Sicily. I also am 1/2 Sicilian.) The little agriturismo in the Nebrodi where I stayed twice a few years apart does not accept credit cards. (Merely asking whether they're accepted seems to shock the owner.) Yet the first time I was there, when I was thumbing through my cash to see whether there was enough (if not, there certainly wouldn't have been any ATMs around!), he offered to accept a plain old check from my local bank if I was short on cash. Your agriturismo uses e-mail for business? How ultra-modern! the one where I stayed HAS e-mail, but doesn't use it. They don't answer postal mail either, though they do read it and make a reservation and even make plans to pick up a guest at the train station, all without ever communicating that the reservation is OK. The second time I stayed there I used the phone. That worked. (I stay at this place because it's right on the outskirts of a little town that I visit.)

cmt

E: P.S. The acronym thread is growing and growing. IRHA!

Underhill

Time was that LOL meant Little Old Ladies, with or without tennis shoes.

Scarlett

I had to Google <b>faboo</b> to see what the UrbanDictionary.com definition was..aside from it being baby talk for <font color="green">Fabulous</font>.
Google says it is a Gay/lesbian term for <i>In Style</i> and then there were quite a few very odd, sort of little girl sites about dolls etc.
Amazing what you learn on Fodors

Marilyn

&quot;Piccie&quot; is pronounced &quot;picky&quot; and is just another in a series of English word shortenings: making rezzies for dinner, going on hols, etc. I was mystified for a while when a company we did business with asked us for trannies, til I figured out they meant transparencies or as we call them, slides.

Love PEBCAK! As darlin' Scarlett says, the things you learn on fodors!

cmt

Because of the spelling, I was imagining it was pronounced with a soft &quot;c&quot; and that didn't make sense. I've never actually heard anyone SAY &quot;piccie,&quot; and I don't remember reading it outside the Internet.

cmt

Here are the links I posted two years ago on the e-mail jargon thread about &quot;faboo&quot;:

http://www.slangsite.com/slang/F.html

http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/stephj/sunnydaleslang.html

http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Stonewall/4219/

http://www.panikon.com/phurba/alteng/f.html

_jinx_

SNAFU. A term from the military (WWII, I think)----&quot;Situation normal, all f----- up&quot;!

Jinx Hoover

Marilyn

cmt, I have an English friend who says it all the time. The spelling doesn't look quite right as &quot;piccies&quot; but I'm not what would look correct.

cmt

BF* I'd occasionally seen and heard &quot;pics,&quot; rather than &quot;piccies.&quot;







*Before Fodors