TL;DRの英語

頭文字

TLDR

1. (Internet) too long; didn't read. Used to indicate that one didn't read the whole text or to indicate that the following sentence is a summary of the overly-long text.

成句

TLDR

1. (Internet slang) Alternative form of tl;dr

語源

Initialism.

発音

• IPA^(key): /tiː ˌɛl diː ˈɑː(ɹ)/

成句

tl;dr

1. (chiefly Internet slang) Initialism of too long; didn't read. Used to indicate that one did not read a (long) text.
2. (chiefly Internet slang) Initialism of too long; didn't read. Used to introduce a short summary of an overly long text.

   Synonyms: BLUF, summary

   • 2016, John Halstead, Godless Paganism:

     How I got to be an atheist is a fairly long and winding story, so I'll give you the “tl;dr” version—I was finally honest about myself that “the gods” just “weren't there.”

   • 2018 May 30, Hadley Freeman, “The meaning of beige tights: they show what the Windsors will do to Meghan”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Incidentally, my absolutely favourite headline about the Duchess of Sussex’s new coat of arms was: “Will Meghan Markle’s new California-inspired coat of arms convince millennials to embrace traditional heraldry?” Tl;dr, no!

関連する語

• TL;DL, tl;dl, TLDL (audio counterpart)
• TL;DW, tl;dw, TLDW (video counterpart)

名詞

tl;dr (複数形 tl;drs)

1. (slang) A summary; the long and short, the gist.

   I know that was quite a long ramble, but the TL;DR is that I got fired.

動詞

tl;dr (三人称単数 現在形 tl;dr's, 現在分詞 tl;dr'ing, 過去形および過去分詞形 tl;dr'ed または tl;dr'd)

1. (transitive, slang) To provide a short summary of (a text または event).
   • 2014 June 17, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “Here's How To Teach The Liberal Arts To High Schoolers”, in Forbes‎^[2]:

     Extracts or overviews should be substituted as needed. But insofar as possible, the whole books should be read. First of all, because many thinkers simply cannot be tl;dr'd. Second of all, because wrestling with, and immersing yourself in, and just reading through whole books is part of the education.

   • 2021 June 30, Makena Kelly, “Hasan Piker on the problem with YouTube debate culture”, in The Verge‎^[3]:

     I’ll tell you another thing that’s ironic about the Vidal-Buckley debates. Those debates can be TLDR’d into one of them calling the other “queer” as a pejorative and then the other calls the other a “fascist.”

   • 2021 August 20, Amy Kaufman et al., “‘Ted Lasso’ wrote a love letter to romantic comedies. We break down ‘rom-communism’”, in Los Angeles Times‎^[4]:

     Fortunately, Sutton Stracke soon emerged from her bedroom to tell her friends that she had, in fact, read the entire story. Kyle instantly begged her friend to TL;DR the “in-depth exposé,” which she deemed “so friggin’ long.”

   • 2022 December 20, Louis Ashworth, “Turning Japanese?: One last rug pull before retirement”, in Financial Times‎^[5]:

     Royal Bank of Canada’s economics team have tl;dr’d why JGBs and the yen have had a fun morning: “it will be hard for markets not to see this move as a precursor for tightening policy”.

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