Please don't send personal email with Cygwin questions and suggestions.Noted. I suggest you change the note at the bottom of http://cygwin.com/acronyms/ soliciting Cygwin comments via personal email.
All Cygwin-related correspondence should go to the main Cygwin list at
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More below.The original quote would be acronyminated(sic) BIPOOTV (But I Play One On Television).
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, La Monte H.P. Yarroll wrote:
In http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#YANALATEYHSMBSI you wrote:
"Don't try to pronounce it. Just... don't"
Clearly a challenge if ever I heard one. This is a remarkably simple acronym to pronounce:
YANA-LATEY(almost LADY)-HISSEM-BISSEE
Thanks for the suggestion.
Well, let's see how well it bodes with the Cygwin community. If it gets accepted, this might go into the OLOCA. I wish you sent the original to the Cygwin list, so I could link to it in that case... Oh, well.
IANAL, but I play a Linguist on television.
IANALBIPALOT? Na-ah...
Igor
For those not mired in the history of US television of advertising: some time in the late 70's or early 80's a major drug manufacturer hired a soap opera star to endorse their product. The add started "I am not a doctor, but I play one on television...".
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