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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-feed3.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.ti.com!news.dseg.ti.com!adam.dseg.ti.com!Xstevens From: Xstevens@adam.dseg.ti.com (Harold Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: 16 Jun 1997 22:36:18 GMT Organization: Texas Instruments Inc. - Systems Group Lines: 35 Sender: stevens@adam.dseg.ti.com (Harold Stevens) Distribution: inet Message-ID: <5o4f52$amb@sf18.dseg.ti.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <3390a559.4210811@news.dircon.co.uk> <3392FE4F.1667@att.com> <5mvqtk$ml6$1@nntp.Stanford.EDU> <5n2phh$jda@cicsun.univ-bpclermont.fr> <5neore$rci$1@mnb20.pet.cam.ac.uk> <339C5457.52179F59@ncofsi.com> <5nrdh7$5p@sylph.u-net.com> <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> Reply-To: Xwyrd@ti.com NNTP-Posting-Host: adam.dseg.ti.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:46115 comp.os.linux.misc:180817 comp.os.linux.x:64465 alt.os.linux:22285 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3567 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42907 gnu.misc.discuss:31808 comp.unix.solaris:109622 In <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid<jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>: [Snip...] |> It may be superficial, but one way of seperating the wheat from the |> chaff when it comes to assessing someone's UNIX skills is how they |> pronounce the name of that editor. If they've never even read the vi |> manual, then the obvious conclusions can be drawn. "...may be superficial..." ??? "...the obvious conclusions..." ??? Oh, sure. It fosters excellent communications and human relations. I'm sorry, Dr. Einstein; you can't come to Princeton. Newton wrote The Prin-KIP-ee-ah, not the Prin-SIP-ee-ah. Obviously you've never bothered studying classical mechanics and so your new fangled idea of "relativity" is just fantasy. Why not try Stanford instead? Sheesh. As if there wasn't enough cyber chauvinism to go around. I guess we'll need a litmus test for Linux developers, too, based on their pronunciation of the OS itself. Expect to miss a lot of very capable *talent* qualifying it on arcane grammar and minutiae. I'll shut up now and just consider myself trolled. Regards, Weird (Harold Stevens) ** IMPORTANT EMAIL INFO ** 1. As antispam, I may code my email address with a leading "X". 2. Please remove the leading "X" (if any) to address email to me. 3. Please vent inconvenience at Cyberpromo and their Satanic spawn. Standard Disclaimer: My opinions alone and not Texas Instruments.