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What does tl;dr mean? I've seen it a few times here and wondered about it.


too long; didn't read


That's the literal meaning. Subtexts include: this is way too verbose for the information it's delivering, this is way too editorialised, this needs editing, etc. So "tl;dr" is also a judgement of the resource referred to.

http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Tl%3Bdr#Chapter_1


Thanks.


Note that this actually originates from the SomethingAwful Forums.



Or rather, http://www.google.com/search?q=%22tl%3Bdr%22

More specifically, a summary of a longish text: item 2 from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/TLDR




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