-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/02/07 08:45, CaT wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 08:34:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----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. > >>From the PostgreSQL FAQ: > > General Questions > > 1.1) What is PostgreSQL? How is it pronounced? > > PostgreSQL is pronounced Post-Gres-Q-L, and is also sometimes referred > to as just Postgres. An audio file is available in MP3 > format for those would like to hear the pronunciation. > ... > - http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ.html#item1.1 > > It would appear to me that the very people in charge of PostgreSQL are > far less anal and insulting about it then you are.
I truly apologize if it seems that I am getting angry, because I'm not even getting aggravated about this, much less angry. - -- 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) iD8DBQFGESDeS9HxQb37XmcRAhHRAKDheebrQV3lXErNAxbKZ9qlvNnXMwCcCMuF 4NI7P67+0VU2cypZli9N9b4= =CfIJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
