-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/07 03:19, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 01.04.2007 at 16:12 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>>> Most people I know pronounce this "post-gress" (dropping/ignoring >>>>> the 'SQL' part at the end). >>>> And that's wrong. >>> Steady, Ron: don't accuse people of being "wrong", when there's a >>> subjective way of pronouncing words! >> You can call it /Stinking pile of manure/ if you want, but that's >> *not* the correct way to pronounce PostgreSQL. > > Ron, you don't get it do you? > > The original poster wanted to know the way most people said common > Unix/Linux words. > > PostgreSQL *is* pronounced "post-gress-ceu-ell" as you keep insisting > (and with which I am *NOT* disagreeing): however, my point was that > many, many, many people call is "post-gress", which is an widely-used > accepted abbreviation.
Accepted by people who don't know better. Hopefully when they *do* know better they'll pronounce it correctly. > Should we call you Ronald? You can. No problem! It is, after all, my name. Ron, Ronnie & Ronny are acceptable derivatives. > Should I insist people call me David? If you want. Some people do. For example: I know a guy named Andre' who's parents nicknamed him Andy at a young age. I met him when he was grown, married and had a "junior" they called, to avoid namespace collision, Andre'. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGEQZ9S9HxQb37XmcRAuKpAKDDPZ/bNj63NW2uR6uEq1R1FvidiQCgpC0m /ttuOmxSIlQZwjt6DYHdJng= =zfFt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
