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From: avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au (Andre van Eyssen)
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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 20 Jun 1997 23:05:56 GMT
Organization: Kaelos Computing Australia
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In article <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid wrote:
>badvoc@sylph.u-net.com (Badvoc) writes:
>
>> Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> writes:
>>
>> > Relax, everyone. What if someone pronounces "su" as "soo", "vi" and
>> >"vye" ? Personally, I pronounce say "remove" when I am referring to
>> >"rm" and "copy" when I refer to "cp".
>>
>> I though everyone pronounced "vi" as "vye" and "cp" as "copy".
>
>Only the people who don't really know what they are doing. And DOS
>users. (Same thing I suppose.) To quote from the vi manual: "vi -
>pronounced vee-eye".
>
>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.
Conclusions to be drawn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
a) This person reads the VI manual
b) This person has too much time.
c) This person either i) has no life
ii) has no job
iii) both
d) Therefore: lacks social skills
e) And should not be employed, as they will not be able to interact with fellow workers.
--
Andre van Eyssen,
Kaelos Computing. (T4216908)
"One who is not wise himself cannot be well advised"
---Machiavelli
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