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[Lee Forrest <lforrestster AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:51:00PM -0600, James Miller wrote:

> 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). 

Oh my. That's FUNNY!

> 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.

:-) :-)  

Did you make that up?

I have a better idea. Since Sindi thinks its okay to call
anything whatever anyone wants to call it, I'll start calling her
"Prunella".

:-)

Lee