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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 23:07:42 GMT
Organization: Kaelos Computing Australia
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In article <5o4f52$amb@sf18.dseg.ti.com>, Harold Stevens wrote:
>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.
Well, I guess we should all pronounce it in accordance with Mr. Torvald's published .au file
:-)
--
Andre van Eyssen,
Kaelos Computing. (T4216908)
"One who is not wise himself cannot be well advised"
---Machiavelli
The Prince s23