Russ,
Now, you see, this is exactly what I am talking about. To me a SQL is a ratty
sort of creature who likes to bury nuts and has a long fuzzy tail.
Why are we suddenly talking about sqls?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
----- Original Message -----
From: Russ Abbott
To: fra...@rpi.edu;The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 1/28/2009 9:56:38 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] RANT: Acronyms
I'm sure you've all heard of the writer who vowed to write acronym free
documents (AFDs).
-- Russ Abbott
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Professor, Computer Science
California State University, Los Angeles
o Check out my blog at http://russabbott.blogspot.com/
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:17 PM, Matthew Francisco
<matthew.franci...@gmail.com> wrote:
i'm going to enter the danger zone for a second...
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson
<nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> DANGER: RANT
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Nobody should EVER apologize for not understanding an acronym. The purpose
> of acronyms is -- present company exempted! -- to solidify an ingroup by
> being unintelligible to outsiders. Once, just to tease, I named a program,
> " MOTH" (=Myway Or The Highway) in a paper I submitted. The editor of the
> journal did not say, "WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT STUPID
> ACRONYM? And, once the article was accepted for publication, I did not
> have the chutzpah to admit that the name had been a joke. My shame.
>
> ESCHEW ACRONYMS AND BUZZWORDS.
What about mispronouncing an acronym (I'm thinking of the times i get
outed for mispronouncing "SQL")? And what about words, for that
matter?
And are there any cases where one may want to add a little bit of
extra shaming/ingrouping? I guess, when should apologies be in order?
>
> GESUNDHEIT!
>
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> END RANT. END DANGER.
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
> Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
>
>
>
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