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Subject:Re: Do choosy mother mothers choose GIF? From:KMcLauchlan <kevinmcl -at- magma -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 26 Oct 2002 11:28:27 +0100
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:58:48 -0700 (PDT)
"Scott Browne" <sbbish -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
.
> Cool! Acronyms don't need to conform to any pronunciation devices??
> Excellent! Then I'll just pronounce GIF as "squark". It sounds cool
> that way.
> And just because the people who invented the name have said how it
> should be pronounced, that's no reason to do it their way. So whenever
> I meet someone new and they tell me their name, I can pronounce it
> however I want.
> Scott
> (pronounced "skot", but I'm sure all you "hard G" people out there will
> chose to pronounce my name differently than the way I want it
> pronounced.)
Um, if you try to name your product in an odd way:
1) using letter combinations that most
speakers/writers of your language use another
way
2) basing an acronym on words that absolutely ALL
speakers/writers of your language pronounce
differently (jraphic? get real...)
then you are reliably and validly assumed to be
one (or more) of:
a) deliberately creating a problem/controversy just
because you're bored or
b) ------ (word for a mentally-deficient state; begins
with "s") or
c) just generally a twit, no matter your other talents
in creating widely useful software...
Ahem!
The foregoing is believed to be more than 96% accurate, 19 times out of 20.
The foregoing employed the "generic you" and was
not directly pointed at anybody on this list... probably...
/kevin
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