TLDRとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• tldr, tl/dr, tl dr, TLDR, TL;DR, TL/DR
• TLDNR, TL/DNR, TL-DNR

語源

The phrase is an initialism of t(oo) l(ong); d(idn’t) (or sometimes d(on’t)) r(ead). The noun and verb are derived from the phrase.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /tiː ˌɛl diː ˈɑː/
• (General American) IPA: /ti ˌɛl di ˈɑɹ/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)

成句

tl;dr

1. (chiefly Internet slang) Initialism of too long; didn't read (or sometimes too long; don't read).
   1. (usually derogatory) Used to indicate that one did not read a (long) text.
      • 2002 December 21, Lenny Perkins, “My Thoughts on Metroid Prime (Long)”, in rec.games.video.nintendo‎ (Usenet):

        tl;dr

        This is the earliest occurrence noted by the Oxford English Dictionary.

   2. Used to introduce a short summary of an overly long text.

      Synonyms: BLUF, summary

      • 2016, Jeffrey Flagg, “The Care and Feeding of Your Atheist Pagan”, in John Halstead, editor, Godless Paganism: Voices of Non-theistic Pagans, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu.com, →ISBN, part 10 (Looking Forward: Non-theistic Pagan Community), page 351:

        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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 October 2021:

        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

• too long; didn't read
• TL;DL, tl;dl, TLDL (audio counterpart)
• TL;DW, tl;dw, TLDW (video counterpart)

参考

• BLUF
• long story short

名詞

tl;dr (plural tl;drs or tl;dr's)

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

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:summary

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

参考

• wall of text

動詞

tl;dr (third-person singular simple present tl;dr's, present participle tl;dr'ing, simple past and past participle tl;dr'ed or tl;dr'd) (chiefly Internet slang)

1. (transitive) To provide a short summary of (a text, an event, etc.); to summarize.
   • 2014 June 17, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, “Here’s How to Teach the Liberal Arts to High Schoolers”, in Forbes‎, New York, N.Y.: Forbes, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 June 2024:

     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, quoting Hasan Piker, “Hasan Piker on the Problem with YouTube Debate Culture: ‘Personally, I Think All of This is Just Bullshit’”, in The Verge‎, archived from the original on 25 February 2024:

     I'll tell you another thing that's ironic about the Vidal–Buckley [i.e., Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr.] 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, “‘Ted Lasso’ wrote a love letter to romantic comedies. We break down ‘rom-communism’ [Catch up]”, in Los Angeles Times‎, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 June 2024:

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

2. (intransitive) To provide a short summary of a text, an event, etc.; to summarize.
   • 2018 June 16, Peter Kafka, “MoviePass Invested in ‘Gotti,’ the New John Travolta Mob Movie Everyone Hates”, in Vox‎, archived from the original on 2 December 2023:

     Some highlights of the lowlights: "A dismal mess," says the New York Times. Its "shabby aesthetic and narrative shortcomings are outweighed by its more drastically questionable moral ones," says the Guardian. "It's not a good movie," Entertainment Weekly TL;DRs.

   • 2022 December 20, Louis Ashworth, “Turning Japanese?: One last rug pull before retirement”, in Financial Times‎, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 February 2023:

     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".

同意語

• See Thesaurus:recapitulate

参考

• cut to the chase
• get to the point

参照

Further reading

• TL;DR on Wikipedia.Wikipedia