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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!surfnet.nl!sun4nl!phcoms4.seri.philips.nl!news From: Jim Reid <jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com> 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 16:58:17 +0200 Organization: Origin TS Intranet Services, Eindhoven Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.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> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:46100 comp.os.linux.misc:180779 comp.os.linux.x:64450 alt.os.linux:22275 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3565 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42897 gnu.misc.discuss:31804 comp.unix.solaris:109585 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.