Hacker News Decoder Ring for Emacs

People say that language is for communication, and every day Hacker News proves these people wrong. I mean, it’s not just Hacker News, but it’s the place I encounter this phenomenon most often: Somebody will be discussing something, and then somebody else will respond with a short sentence that’s mostly acronyms. The fascinating thing about these responses is that if you know what the acronyms mean, then what’s being stated is often trivial. And if you don’t know what the acronyms mean, then the sentence is completely opaque. (Often seen, for instance, when discussing network issues, and somebody responds with an alphabet soup involving acronyms like “BGP”, “AP”, “BMP” and “FRX”.) So these utterances function two ways: For the people who’re on the “inside”, they’re saying “I know this stuff, like you other smart people…”. For the people who’re on the outside, this expresses “… and you’re a moron”. I guess that’s a form of communication after all. But for fun, I just whipped up a new…