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From: tes@whuts.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,misc.misc
Subject: Literacy was: smail pronounciation
Message-ID: <1528@whuts.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 12:02:04 EST
Article-I.D.: whuts.1528
Posted: Thu Feb 26 12:02:04 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 06:41:51 EST
References: <667@rtech.UUCP> <1074@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu> <486@sw1e.UUCP> <517@cod.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Summary: Literacy for those rendered illiterate by too much contact with computers.

In article <517@cod.UUCP>, rupp@cod.UUCP (William L. Rupp) writes:
> In article <1277@beta.UUCP> hp@beta.UUCP (Akkana) writes:
> >
> >When I was first learning Unix, I was trained to call '~' a "twiddle",
> >but seemingly the rest of the world calls it "tilde". 
> 
> That's because it *is* a tilde!
one of my pet peeves is the perversion of standard English by
computer hackers too lazy to look in the dictionary.  Please
print the following and post on your terminal:

symbol      term
/           virgule (not slash)
\           reverse virgule (not back slash)
...         ellipses (not dots)
'           apostrophe (not accent)
              (accents in foreign languages do not follow
               the letter but are placed *over* the letter, 
               therefore, UNIX (tm) does not use accents)
[]          brackets (not brace)
!           exclamation point (not bang)
~           tilde (not twiddle, squiggly, or curly)
{}          braces (not curly brackets)
*           asterisk (not star)
^           circumflex (not hat or cap)

Of course, I do not expect to reform 100K+ 
recalcitrant hackers who defiantly wear illiteracy
like a rebozo.  However, some worthwhile 
discussion may be engendered.
-- 
    -----                    Terry Sterkel
  -====----              AT&T Bell Laboratories
  ---------  {clyde|harvard|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes
    -----         [opinions are obviously only my own]