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Hello Barr_y,
I am sorry for the mis-understanding you have of me. I asked the question because many who come here seeking help do not always use abbreviations in the correct way or use standard abbreviations for a non-standard meaning. One reason for this is that many who come here do not have English as their native language like you & I and so, some standard abbreviations do not mean the same to them. Many who come here use on-line translators to read the posts here and sometimes those on-line translators do not translate abbreviations correctly or not at all.
Before now, I did not know how computer proficient and expressive you are. Now, I know and wish I did not know. You also do not know me nor how much I understand. Yes, I know the standard abbreviation for a motherboard is m/b and probably knew this long before you did. I could have been (but am not) a newbie who was trying to understand an abbreviation a newbie might not be sure of. Remember this, we try to help everyone on this forum and not just those who know (or think they know) a lot but are still stuck with a problem they can not solve. You were once a newbie and had to learn. Perhaps you are still learning. I hope you are. I know I have learned much from this topic.
Your statement indicated a single m/b had blown up twice. A m/b might be repaired after some non-essential component has failed. But, for most of us, "blown up" would indicate complete and non-repairable failure. Hence, my question was meant to be positive in order to clarify the statement you incorrectly made. Had you written something like ... "The trouble at the moment her M/B's have blown up twice" ... OR ... "The trouble is at the moment she has had 2 m/b's blow-up" ... then the statement would have been clear to a "wisecrack person" like me and to newbies who often search these posts looking for information. By itself, M/B is singular but M/B's (or M/Bs ... though this could confuse some) would be plural.
Please accept my apology for interferring in your problem. You can rest assured that, if in the future you decide to post on this forum again, I will remember your name and I will never interfer with your problems again ... even if I know the answer you need. Though you have been very rude to me, I sincerely hope you learn something positive here and elsewhere on this forum.
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To the other forum members,
Thank you for your input and my apologies to each of you, and the forum as a whole, that this happened because of my post. I only wanted clarification so that all who visit this forum might understand and learn.
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