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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!pumpkin.pangea.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news-in-east.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!207.103.140.20!news.voicenet.com!not-for-mail From: Jonathan Bodarky <jbodarky@ncofsi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms - collecting a list? Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 15:18:56 -0400 Organization: NCO Financial Systems, Inc. Lines: 71 Message-ID: <33B806A0.1E03920B@ncofsi.com> References: <5p797t$f4n@news0-alterdial.uu.net> Reply-To: jbodarky@ncofsi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: consh217-pri.voicenet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5 [en] (Win95; I) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:3622 comp.unix.shell:46644 comp.os.linux.misc:182673 comp.os.linux.x:65391 alt.os.linux:22784 gnu.misc.discuss:32056 comp.unix.solaris:111212 Fred Trottelhauer wrote: > In article <slrn5qm36k.fvi.avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au>, > avenger@macabre.kaelos.hna.com.au (Andre van Eyssen) wrote: > >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. > > Glad to see you have your priorities straight. Yours is the kind of > orientation that advances the state of the art. > I love unix... especially this group. ONLY HERE COULD SOMEONE RELATE SOMEONE'S SOCIAL SKILLS TO THEIR PRONOUNCIATION OF VI. Amazing :-) > >Andre van Eyssen, > >Kaelos Computing. (T4216908) > > > >"One who is not wise himself cannot be well advised" > > ---Machiavelli > > The Prince s23 > > Have you ever pondered that statement at greater length ? > > Fred > > Flatulence of the mind is harder to remedy than flatulence of the > body. > > When I hear the words 'Connected', 'Trust' and 'Under Control', > I reach for my revolver. > > If UNIX is the revenge of the nerds, the rest of the industry is the > football team and the cheerleading squad trying to produce a science > project, and expecting an 'A' because they're the football team and > the cheerleading squad.