Someone in a Tree2 said: ""DOTV?
Was writing out all the letters just too much trouble?"
No, it's not too much trouble. Dance of the Vampires.
Forgive me for using the letters for the first time in my life, after reading only letters on this site for thirteen years. I decided to give it a try.
My sincere apologies to Jane for my unnecessary snark. I myself constantly feel so out of the loop when bombarded with discussions of DEH, CFA, TGC, HD, GD, OYF, SOR, POTO, ITW and on and on, as if everyone in my circle actually uses any of these on a regular basis. Most I can figure out with effort; DOTV left me flummoxed. Maybe it's a generational thing-- I'm happy to be the crabby oldster telling you young whippersnappers to get off my porch and use full names of things for a change.
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And while we're on the subject, a lot of us who live far from Broadway use this board to stay in touch with art forms we love. That said, I don't expect New Yorkers to explain every post so that we Left Coasters understand every word.
But would it be too much trouble to use full names. Yeah, I've figured out that "Jenn" is Collela from COME FROM AWAY right now, and we all know who Bette is. A lot of posts are incomprehensible, however, because so many references are identified by first name only. I suspect such posts are incomprehensible to a lot of New Yorkers, too.
We get it. You want to sound like an insider, but in most such cases the poster doesn't know the first-name-only individual personally and the "Get off my lawn" part of me finds it rude to refer to strangers by their first name, anyway. Obvious exceptions: Cher and Madonna.
