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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Someone asked me to check out their port. I was thrilled, because I'm a big fan of a good wine. Imagine my disappointment when they meant their portfolio.
I realize that everything is slowly getting abbreviated to hell, but come on! Port?!
Isn't that taking it a little too far?
No, likely not.
At the risk of being snooty, I weep for the future, Ferris.
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Nemi
Posts: 27413
Jamaica, New York, US
Port is common, and not too bad...tog on the other hand...
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
I agree Christopher. 
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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Sure, but if I walked into an agency and said, "hey, did you see that last port?" I'd likely get smacked.
I dunno, maybe I'm becoming that cranky old man on the corner.
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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Brian Diaz wrote:
I agree Christopher. Oh, the irony! I tried to sign up as "Christopher" and it wouldn't let me! Too many characters! But check it out, you'll find everything I brand says "Christopher."
Sweet, sweet irony!
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
Chris Ambler wrote:
Oh, the irony! I tried to sign up as "Christopher" and it wouldn't let me! Too many characters! But check it out, you'll find everything I brand says "Christopher."
Sweet, sweet irony! Huh, it should fit. There's a 23 character limit. I can change it if you like.
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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Brian Diaz wrote:
Huh, it should fit. There's a 23 character limit. I can change it if you like. Absolutely. If you could change it to "Christopher Ambler" that would be fantastic. I swear, when I signed up, it wouldn't take that many characters (I did sign up pretty darn early - I'm #140 :-))
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00siris
Posts: 19182
New York, New York, US
Chris Ambler wrote:
Someone asked me to check out their port. I was thrilled, because I'm a big fan of a good wine. Imagine my disappointment when they meant their portfolio.
I realize that everything is slowly getting abbreviated to hell, but come on! Port?!
Isn't that taking it a little too far?
No, likely not.
At the risk of being snooty, I weep for the future, Ferris. I don't anyone really uses this as an abbreviation outside of forums like this. It's just that people don't really want to write out the word over and over again beng that it's such a common word here - that's all.
No real big deal to me.
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
Christopher Ambler wrote:
Absolutely. If you could change it to "Christopher Ambler" that would be fantastic. I swear, when I signed up, it wouldn't take that many characters (I did sign up pretty darn early - I'm #140 :-)) Poof. You're a Christopher.
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
You need to do some TFP to fill up your port, but you should test in order to build your book. I find the word portfolio clunky and annoying. 
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theda
Posts: 21719
New York, New York, US
I can't stand that one either.
If you think my port is great, you should see my starboard!
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Richard Tallent
Posts: 7136
Beaumont, Texas, US
Sounds like it's time to move "port" into the dreaded PREDICATE category, establishing forever its abuse of the English language and confuse computer programmers like me who do so legitimately when moving from one system to another. "I send the model her shots but she did not port them." "I ported that shot but it didn't get any views so I added an 18+ tag and it got 200." "Dear model, I would like to port you sometime TFCD. --Tog" 
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Brian Diaz
Posts: 65617
Danbury, Connecticut, US
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TBJ Imaging
Posts: 2416
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Hey Chris......as a fellow tog I do not see the prob with the word port. Contact a mod if you have a prob.
Just playing around by the way!
Thomas
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Shyly
Posts: 3870
Pasadena, California, US
This thread made me laugh. Starboard. Ha. What's really funny to me is that the abbreviations are starting to become things that people actually say. Has anyone ever clocked how long it takes to say "makeup artist," versus, "em-you-ay?"
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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Shyly wrote:
This thread made me laugh. Starboard. Ha. What's really funny to me is that the abbreviations are starting to become things that people actually say. Has anyone ever clocked how long it takes to say "makeup artist," versus, "em-you-ay?" I've got to be honest, I never say "TFP," I say "trade." I never say "portfolio," I say "book."
True, one tends to use the terms that one learns first, but still, when you start using "Internet terms" and abbreviations in daily conversation with non-Internet industry types, they just look at you funny (at best).
I am unashamedly an Internet-based photographer, and enjoy the friends and contacts I've made. On the other hand, I also interface with non-Internet folk, and the difference in terminology is rather eye-opening.
Not a rant, just an observation, with a grin.
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Josie Nutter
Posts: 5865
Seattle, Washington, US
Yeah, I'd rather see "port" than "tog" or "photog".
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Nihilus
Posts: 10888
Nashville, Tennessee, US
Christopher Ambler wrote:
Someone asked me to check out their port. I was thrilled, because I'm a big fan of a good wine. Imagine my disappointment when they meant their portfolio.
I realize that everything is slowly getting abbreviated to hell, but come on! Port?!
Isn't that taking it a little too far?
No, likely not.
At the risk of being snooty, I weep for the future, Ferris. Mmm...started on Benjamin's, got a nice 10 year aged Cockburn's over the holidays...but have yet to restock my stash of KWV. Tawnies, preferably...but I did rather enjoy the Sandeman's Ruby I had a while back.
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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Nihilus wrote:
Mmm...started on Benjamin's, got a nice 10 year aged Cockburn's over the holidays...but have yet to restock my stash of KWV. Tawnies, preferably...but I did rather enjoy the Sandeman's Ruby I had a while back. To wine snob, or to not wine snob? :-)
Let's just say that most of those brands, the ones you can find on the shelf of any local store, are great entry-drugs to the world of port, in my opinion.
(honest, I'm not being a wine snob - but the best wine I've had, you can't really get outside of a specialty importer or actually going to the region)
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A.Fox
Posts: 418
Las Vegas, Nevada, US
If anyone here has studied English history you know that for the most part, NATIVE English words are one syllable so it's only natural that we look to chop up those that aren't. Sometimes it's sexy, and sometimes... it comes out like 'tog'.
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Iona Lynn
Posts: 11176
Oakland, California, US
Christopher Ambler wrote:
I am unashamedly an Internet-based photographer, and enjoy the friends and contacts I've made. On the other hand, I also interface with non-Internet folk, and the difference in terminology is rather eye-opening.
Not a rant, just an observation, with a grin. *smoooches christopher*
Iona Lynn, the internet whore
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Sophistocles
Posts: 21320
Seattle, Washington, US
Iona Lynn wrote:
*smoooches christopher*
Iona Lynn, the internet whore Waitaminnute... if I run the Internet, and you're its whore, does that make me...
um...
no, let's not go there :-)
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SLE Photography
Posts: 68937
Orlando, Florida, US
theda wrote:
I can't stand that one either.
If you think my port is great, you should see my starboard! Personally I'm a big fan of your aft.
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SLE Photography
Posts: 68937
Orlando, Florida, US
Christopher Ambler wrote:
To wine snob, or to not wine snob? :-)
Let's just say that most of those brands, the ones you can find on the shelf of any local store, are great entry-drugs to the world of port, in my opinion.
(honest, I'm not being a wine snob - but the best wine I've had, you can't really get outside of a specialty importer or actually going to the region) That's why I keep my day job as a specialty importer
I can have my photographs and my 1977 Dow's
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SLE Photography
Posts: 68937
Orlando, Florida, US
Iona Lynn wrote:
*smoooches christopher*
Iona Lynn, the internet whore Christopher Ambler wrote:
Waitaminnute... if I run the Internet, and you're its whore, does that make me...
um...
no, let's not go there :-) Absolutely not. I'd hate to see you lose your best model due to divorce.
She's probably get half your port, too, and I don't mean your pics.
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