Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Harold Stevens
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 00:00

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In <x7206261di.fsf@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>, Jim Reid<jim@pc37.mpn.cp.philips.com>:

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|> 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.

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Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/06/16
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