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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 03:29:37PM -0800, Lee Forrest wrote:
>
> Without a standardized vocabulary we are going to become a tower
> of babel. And the place to go for the correct way to refer
> to slackware is to slackware users and maintainers, not some
> non-slackware blog or web forum.
> 
> See if you can find "SW" on slackware.com. Good luck.

May I suggest you join SPGPACA? (The Society for the Prevention of the 
Gratuitous 
Proliferation of Acronyms in the Computer Age). Shall I pronounce that for 
you? Yes, just as 
it looks, it's spgpaca (kinda like "spaghetti" but with pakka tacked on the 
end. I won't 
tell you what that word means in south Swahili, or you might question my 
motives in 
responding to this post). Despite all the good they aim to do, SPGPACA seem 
so far to have 
succeeded mainly in saddling our already-overburdened vocabulary with _yet 
another acronym_. 
And a difficult-to-pronounce one, at that.

Now, back to your regularly-scheduled programming.

James