tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) (10/26/89)
This hardly seems wizardly, yet this is where it's being discussed,
with some big names even chiming in. Sigh, hopefully the heat will be
fairly mild for perpetuating this ...
In <8000001@hpopd.HP.COM> andyc@hpopd.HP.COM (Andrew Cunningham) writes:
Andrew> How you pronounce /usr/ucb/vi (or /usr/bin/vi, if you have HP-UX
Andrew> or some similar system) depends less upon how long you've used UNIX
Andrew> and more on who taught it.
Uh oh. Path names. Okay, how about the following? (How I say it is
listed first.)
Directory How I've heard it
========= =================
usr yoo-zer you-ess-ahr oo-zer
var vahr vair
tmp temp tump(?)
adm ay-dee-em ad-mihn ay-duhm
ucb you-cee-bee uhk-buh
bin bihn bine
dev dehv deev
lib lihb libe
lost+found [... um, like, :-)...]
Files How I've heard it
===== =================
.cshrc [dot] seesh-are-cee seesh-irk
.rhosts [dot] are-hosts roasts
Aside to the fellow who sent me a nice little dissertation on "char
*p", I couldn't find a path back to you. I say "care star pee",
though. :-) [And I _do_ say the first syllable of "character" to
rhyme with "care", too.]
Dave
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(setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) (10/27/89)
In article <1989Oct26.061015.18129@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes:
Uh oh. Path names. Okay, how about the following? (How I say it is
listed first.)
Directory How I've heard it
========= =================
usr yoo-zer you-ess-ahr oo-zer
...
Don't forget ``etc''. I cringe everytime I hear someone say ``et-see''. :-)
...tadnick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs) (10/28/89)
In article <TADGUY.89Oct26134815@osric.cs.odu.edu> tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes: >Don't forget ``etc''. I cringe everytime I hear someone say ``et-see''. :-) > ...tad Sheesh! No kidding! Our old SA used to say it and then he got me saying it too. Every once in a while my brain departs from controlled flight and I say it again. Thank goodness I'm in charge of sys. admin. now... :-) By the way does anyone say "ioctl" as i-o-c-t-l (all the letters spelled out)? Nicholas Jacobs UUCP: ...!uunet!toro!nick Internet: nick@toro.uu.net AT&T: (212) 236-3230
jak@sactoh0.UUCP (Jay A. Konigsberg) (10/29/89)
>In article <1989Oct26.061015.18129@rpi.edu> tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: >Don't forget ``etc''. I cringe everytime I hear someone say ``et-see''. :-) Well, it can always be pronounced as the King of Siam would! ;-} -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jay @ SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca. UUCP=...pacbell!sactoh0!jak
mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) (10/30/89)
In article <1076@toro.UUCP>, nick@toro.UUCP (Nicholas Jacobs) writes: > In article <TADGUY.89Oct26134815@osric.cs.odu.edu> tadguy@cs.odu.edu (Tad Guy) writes: > >Don't forget ``etc''. I cringe everytime I hear someone say ``et-see''. :-) > > ...tad > > Sheesh! No kidding! Our old SA used to say it and then he got me saying > it too. Every once in a while my brain departs from controlled flight and > I say it again. Thank goodness I'm in charge of sys. admin. now... :-) Yea, the old sysadmin here called it et-see here also. I caught the bug. Oh my God, Did I say sysadmin???? I meant SA! (Wart off some of the flames). Especially the person who pointed out that I spelled implementation incorrectly. Gee, and the rest of that article was perfect. Awww, gee, I was almost a wizard... That one character blew it for me. :-( Guess I will have to quit my job and everything. Hey, my job..., not Adelphi University, my programmer alalyst job... I just thought of another one... How do you tell a wizard? By how much money the company pays him TO STAY TECHNICAL and not move into management where he becomes a pencil pushing gghant chart maker-upper. -- Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 663-1170 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science markd@adelphi.UUCP or mark@promark.UUCP UUCP: uunet!mimsy!rutgers!columbia!adelphi!markd