ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
One of us doesn’t know what that stands for. I feel like the time my grandpa died, and mom sent me an email telling me “We’re going to the funeral this Friday to pay respects to grandpa. LOL!”
I was quite confused. Turns out she grew up with “Lots Of Love”. For a second she seemed like she turned into an absolute psychopath, for like…no reason.
ETA? Estimated Time of Arrival?
In this context, it means “Edited To Add”. I do wish they abbreviated it some other way, since “Estimated Time of Arrival” is a much more common meaning. I would accept “E2A” or something stupid, as long as it was more unique. Alternatively, they could just use “Edit:”.
Oh no, we’re out of letters!
This is my first time reading about this alternate “ETA” initialism. Interesting…
ETA: Mine, too.
(ETA in this context means “Entering Text As:”)
What an Enternaining Twist of an Acronym.
tate@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
ETA = Edit to add
Just trying to explain why my comment changed, in case anyone saw it before that LOL.