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Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?)

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On 06/07/2013 20:38, Terry Reedy wrote:
> "rms has crippling RSI" (anonymous, as quoted by Skip).
>
> I suspect that 'rms' = Richard M Stallman (but why lower case? to insult
> him?). I 'know' that RSI = Roberts Space Industries, a game company
> whose Kickstarter project I supported. Whoops, wrong context. How about
> 'Richard Stallman Insanity' (his personal form of megalomania)? That
> makes the phrase is a claim I have read others making.
>
> Lets continue and see if that interpretation works. "should indicate
> that emacs' ergonomics is not right". Aha! Anonymous believes that using
> his own invention, emacs, is what drove Richard crazy. He would not be
> the first self invention victim.
>
> But Skip mentions 'worse for wrists'. So RSI must be a physical rather
> than mental condition. Does 'I' instead stand for Inoperability?,
> Instability?, or what?
>
> Let us try Google. Type in RSI and it offers 'RSI medications' as a
> choice. Sound good, as it will eliminate all the companies with those
> initials. The two standard medical meanings of RSI seem to be Rapid
> Sequence Intubation and Rapid Sequence Induction. But those are
> procedures, not chronic syndromes. So I still do not know what the
> original poster, as quoted by Skip, meant.

Repetitive strain injury, I assume. Not sure if you're joking but over 
here the top 7 hits for "RSI" on Google, as well as the three ads that 
precede them, are repetitive strain injury-related.

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Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-07-06 15:38 -0400
  Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-07-06 20:51 +0100
    Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-07-06 22:11 +0200
      Re: Explain your acronyms (RSI?) Rotwang <sg552@hotmail.co.uk> - 2013-07-06 21:27 +0100

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