I can't hold this in any longer.

[krait]

DEAR FANDOM, AND ALSO THE REST OF THE WORLD,

"TAB A" GOES WITH "SLOT A", NOT WITH "SLOT B". BECAUSE TAB B, IN FACT, GOES WITH SLOT B. OTHERWISE YOU ARE BUILDING SOME KIND OF MOEBIUS STRIP OF ENDLESS TABS, EACH OFFSET BY ONE UNTIL THEY MUST EITHER LOOP BACK (TAB Z TO SLOT A) OR CONTINUE INTO INFINITY!

I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR APPLYING THIS IN ALL FUTURE FIC, WRITING, AND CONVERSATIONS.

THANKS,

KRAIT


P.S. No wonder you guys think IKEA furniture is so hard to assemble, if you can't manage the basic concept of 'parts should match up'!

Comments

newbie question

[thnidu]

What does PIV stand for?

Personal Identity Verification (FIPS 201)
Pentium 4
Particle Image Velocimetry
Personal Identification Verification
Peak Inverse Voltage
Peripheral IV
Phase IV (clinical studies)
Post Indicator Valve (firefighting)
Physical Inventory Verification
Powered Industrial Vehicle
Positively Infinitely Variable (type of gearbox)
positive input ventilation
Post Implementation Verification
Propellant Isolation Valve
Pontoon Implantment Vehicle
Pre-Inventory Visit
Product Improvement Verification
Pressure-Indicating Valve

None of the above??

Re: newbie question

[snakeling]

Penis In Vagina :)

Re: newbie question

[thnidu]

:-) OK, thanks. That makes everything Perfectly Clear.

Re: newbie question

[pebblerocker]

Some of these make lovely euphemisms. I especially like Powered Industrial Vehicle and Personal Identification Verification as code words for heterosexual intercourse. And whatever a Pontoon Implantment Vehicle is, I want to drive one.

Re: newbie question

[krait]

You're right!

I think Propellant Isolation Valve is my new euphemism for cervix. :D

Re: newbie question

[melannen]

Huh, I wonder if that acronym finder has some kind of adult content filter? PIV is a pretty common acronym in some feminist/kinky/queer sex communities, so I'm surprised it's not there. Sorry for not clarifying!

Re: newbie question

[krait]

I'm surprised, too! I imagine PIV as Penis-In-Vagina is relevant to a LOT more people than, say, "Positively Infinitely Variable", whatever that is! The sex definition's likely known to medical people and legal people and sex educators and porn stars, in addition to feminists/other activists, so I'm with you in suspecting there's a filter in place there...

Re: newbie question

[thnidu]

And I figured out a bit later why that particular initialism* hit me so strongly. The reason is REALLY geeky: For many years, though not recently, one of my favorite reference books was Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto (Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto), or PIV. (And real Esperanto nouns end in -o, so sometimes "PIVo"... which is pronounced the same as "piwo", the Polish word for "beer". But I digress.)

And one of my standard reference sites is Ethnologue, which has brief descriptions of damn near every language in the world and is the responsible agency for ISO 639-3, the (Int'l Standards Organization's) standard assigning distinctive three-letter codes to all of them. And as I happened to stumble across, there is a language whose code is piv. (In case anyone's interested, it's Vaeakau-Taumako, a language of the Solomon Islands, spoken by about 1,650 people in 1999.)

* initialism: link, link, link, link